Answering the "Virtuecrats": A Moral Conversation on Character Education (Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series)

Emphasizing the importance of respecting different moral languages, Nash (philosophy, U. of Vermont) critiques the character education espoused by William F. Bennett, Thomas Lickona, and William Kilpatrick. He examines classical questions about virtue; provides a historical context for character education; critiques strategies for imparting neo-classical virtues; and looks at other value systems such as communitarian, liberationist, and his own postmodern alternative of cultivating democratic dispositions. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.