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Pioneering moral education : Victor Cook and his foundation

Title
Pioneering moral education : Victor Cook and his foundation / W.A. Gatherer.
Author
Gatherer, W. A.
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2004.

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Description
viii, 182 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color); 24 cm
Summary
Victor Cook, a millionaire engineer and businessman in Aberdeen, devoted thirty years of life, and all his wealth, to persuading the educational establishment to give priority to this central area of the work of schools. The campaign culminated in the establishment of many programs of "education for citizenship", "values education", "ethics education", "character education" and "education for global citizenship"--In effect, the establishment of moral education in schools throughout the world. Faced with indifference and even mockery, Cook and his supporters commissioned research and development projects, and sponsored conferences and experimental teaching programs. They also encouraged policy makers and politicians to take seriously the importance of moral education.
Subject
  • Cook, Victor, 1897-1990
  • Cook, Victor, 1897-1990
  • Cook, Victor (Pädagoge)
  • Moral education > Great Britain > History
  • Moral education
  • Sittliche Erziehung
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. life and times of Victor Cook. p. 1.
  • 2. Towards the foundation. p. 5.
  • 3. Victor as lobbyist. p. 11.
  • 4. plan and the deed. p. 21.
  • 5. Political constraints. p. 29.
  • 6. Developments in moral education : theory and practice. p. 37.
  • 7. failure of the pedagogy. p. 47.
  • 8. way towards public acceptance. p. 55.
  • 9. 1980s : process. p. 63.
  • 10. Triumphs and anxieties. p. 77.
  • 11. Tributes. p. 89.
  • 12. Towards a theory of values education. p. 107.
  • 13. campaign in the nineties. p. 119.
  • 14. New emphases : values education for health and enterprise. p. 131.
  • 15. Education for citizenship. p. 143.
  • 16. Education for character and moral competence. p. 159.
ISBN
  • 0748621180
  • 9780748621187
LCCN
2005362742
OCLC
  • ocm56965752
  • 56965752
  • SCSB-1348884
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library