A Holistic Approach For Cultural Change: Character Education for Ages 13-15 - Softcover

Levitt, Marc

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1475835949 ISBN 13: 9781475835946

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

This book is about changing curriculum to align with school's goals for culture change. Original stories about subjects such as vengeance, prejudice and self-respect provide entry points into ideas for prioritizing group learning, demonstrating the linkages between personal and social concerns and making clear how all actions have consequences.

About this title

About the Author:

Marc Levitt is an author/consultant/filmmaker/radio host and producer who has worked in over sixty countries. His films, Stories in Stone and Woven in Time have been seen on PBS and at film festivals around the United States and his radio show,Action Speaks, Underappreciated Dates that Changed America, has been broadcast on over 200 Public and Independent stations.

Review:

Holistic Approach for School Based Culture Change: Character Education for Ages 13-15 uses stories to engage students on a variety of issues such a stereotyping that can lead to bullying. The stories include questions for students to consider along with suggestions for teachers on how they can stimulate further discussion and inquiry. I believe teachers will find this book very helpful in engaging students to discuss and reflect on important issues in their lives. (John P. Miller, professor, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto From the Foreword)

Marc Levitt has created a useful resource for any educator who works with newly-minted teenagers in A Holistic Approach for Cultural Change: Character Education for Ages 13-15. With an increased focus on diversity, historical complexity, and contextualization in our school system and beyond, Levitt offers specific examples, strategies, and questions for teachers and students that will help start and continue challenging conversations. (Hilary Levey Friedman, author of Playing to Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture)

Restorative Justice in Education is grounded in the notion that we are all valued and interconnected. Eschewing the notion of rugged individualism that plagues our world, Marc uses his creative energy to design a resource for middle school educators who are wanting to build a more interconnected and restorative world. I see this resource as a great way to begin conversations about how we do that. May we all work to help the next generation do this better. (Katherine Evans, teacher, educator, and author of The Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education)

Marc Levitt offers a powerful new perspective on the complex pedagogical and curricular issues surrounding character education. With courage, clarity and conviction, Levitt pleads with us to understand that it is only in authentic concern for the wellbeing of others that one rises to one’s full stature as a rich and authentic individual. This, he concludes, is the foundation upon which character education must be built if the schools are to play a vital role in helping us not only navigate the multiplicity of ethical visions and cultural constructs that now contentiously abound in the 21st century, but in turning that diversity into an opportunity for each to be edified and nurtured by each in a grand synthesis that, in Tennyson’s words, will empower us, individually and collectively, “to seek a newer world. (Clifford Mayes Ph.D, Psy.D, Retired Professor of Educational Psychology, BYU and author)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1475835949
• ISBN 13: 9781475835946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118