Ethics For The Young Mind

Ethics for the Young Mind is both a curriculum and a story. This book is designed to assist teachers and parents in their endeavors to educate young people about behaving ethically. Messy ethics, practical applications, and teaching ethics are the main topics. The book begins with a focus on right versus wrong and moves on to an exploration of combining rules with compassion. The authors explore what happens when right confronts a conflicting right, and the hard work of a meaningful ethical classroom discussion. The practical applications provided in the book demonstrate how to stop bullying before the social fabric of a community breaks down. Offering vivid classroom and real-life examples, the book works through the challenges and rewards of creating ethical classrooms and other communities—even at home. The authors address global concerns and the overall need for adolescents to develop a work ethic to have success in creating an ethical community.

Welcome to "The Adventures of Kindville," a captivating book that takes young readers on a journey through the heartwarming town of Kindville. This book, designed for young children, weaves tales of friendship, empathy, and community through engaging stories. Each chapter in the book focuses on a core ethical theme, making complex concepts like fairness, honesty, respect, responsibility, courage, and gratitude accessible and relatable to young minds. 1. "The Friendship Tree" opens the book with a magical tree that blooms only when children show empathy and understanding. It teaches the power of recognizing and valuing each other's feelings. 2. In "The Fairness Festival," Kindville celebrates its annual festival, emphasizing the importance of sharing and fair play, and demonstrating how fairness enhances joy in communal activities. 3. "The Honesty Hive" reveals a beehive that thrives on truthfulness, underscoring honesty as the foundation of trust within the community. 4. "The Respectful Rangers" embark on a mission to earn badges through acts of kindness and respect, showcasing the impact of compassionate actions on the environment and relationships. 5. "The Responsibility Road" challenges the children with tasks that teach accountability and the satisfaction of fulfilling commitments, reinforcing the value of being dependable. 6. "The Courageous Climbers" face their fears by climbing a metaphorical mountain, illustrating courage's role in personal growth and the overcoming of obstacles. 7. Finally, "The Gratitude Garden" flourishes with expressions of thankfulness, highlighting gratitude as a key to happiness and community well-being. "The Adventures of Kindville" is more than just a story; it's an immersive experience that encourages young readers to reflect on their actions and their effects on others. Each chapter includes a guide to facilitate discussions and extend the learning beyond the page, making it a valuable resource for developing emotional intelligence and ethical reasoning from an early age. With "The Adventures of Kindville," children will not only enjoy the tales of friendship and adventure but also learn the essential life skills of empathy, fairness, honesty, respect, responsibility, courage, and gratitude. This book promises to be a beloved addition to any young reader's collection, fostering a generation that values kindness, understanding, and community spirit.

Morality, Ethics and Gifted Minds explores much of the current wisdom on ethics and morality while developing new perspectives on the ethical dimensions of high ability. Prominent authors from diverse disciplines are brought together, recognizing that no single discipline can capture the essence and entirety of nettlesome, complex, multidimensional moral issues. More specifically, the book explores new dimensions of ethics and morality; magnifies the importance of applying highly intelligent minds to ethical issues while developing ways to strengthen the ethical awareness of the creative and gifted, and brings diverse, interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on these issues.

Exploring the ethical questions posed by, in, and about children’s literature, this collection examines the way texts intended for children raise questions of value, depict the moral development of their characters, and call into attention shared moral presuppositions. The essays in Part I look at various past attempts at conveying moral messages to children and interrogate their underlying assumptions. What visions of childhood were conveyed by explicit attempts to cultivate specific virtues in children? What unstated cultural assumptions were expressed by growing resistance to didacticism? How should we prepare children to respond to racism in their books and in their society? Part II takes up the ethical orientations of various classic and contemporary texts, including 'prosaic ethics' in the Hundred Acre Wood, moral discernment in Narnia, ethical recognition in the distant worlds traversed by L’Engle, and virtuous transgression in recent Anglo-American children’s literature and in the emerging children’s literature of 1960s Taiwan. Part III’s essays engage in ethical criticism of arguably problematic messages about our relationship to nonhuman animals, about war, and about prejudice. The final section considers how we respond to children’s literature with ethically focused essays exploring a range of ways in which child readers and adult authorities react to children’s literature. Even as children’s literature has evolved in opposition to its origins in didactic Sunday school tracts and moralizing fables, authors, parents, librarians, and scholars remain sensitive to the values conveyed to children through the texts they choose to share with them.

Linking the decline in Church authority in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with the increasing respectability of fiction, Carol Stewart provides a new perspective on the rise of the novel. The resulting readings of novels by authors such as Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Frances Sheridan, Charlotte Lennox, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and Jane Austen trace the translation of ethical debate into secular and gendered terms. Stewart argues that the seventeenth-century debate about ethics that divided Latitudinarians and Calvinists found its way into novels of the eighteenth century. Her book explores the growing belief that novels could do the work of moral reform more effectively than the Anglican Church, with attention to related developments, including the promulgation of Anglican ethics in novels as a response to challenges to Anglican practice and authority. An increasingly legitimate genre, she argues, offered a forum both for investigating the situation of women and challenging patriarchal authority, and for challenging the dominant political ideology.

Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: New Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton includes a history and anecdotes of Clarence Walton's professional and personal life; a discussion of the controversial introduction of ethics into the field of management studies; contributions on a variety of subjects connected to leadership and business ethics from experts in the field; and critical essays reviewing Clarence's most recent work in social criticism. The book gives a history of the rise of the fields of business and society and business ethics, details the events leading to its acceptance in academic circles and gives personal accounts by Clarence Walton, one of the people most responsible for its creation. Intended target groups are students, former academic peers, and friends of Clarence Walton, as well as anyone interested in the history of business ethics or connected to Columbia University of America, or The American College.