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• Title: Voices: A Practitioner's Perspective: Character Education, Prevention, And Positive Youth Development (Report)
• Author : Journal of Research in Character Education
• Release Date : January 01, 2008
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 84 KB

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Schools today face enormous challenges in educating all of the young people in their charge. In addition to providing youth with basic academic knowledge and skills, and promoting their character development, schools have increasingly been called upon to play a primary role in helping to solve a variety of social problems among youth. Although, historically, schools have always had responsibility for both academic and character development, the sheer number of areas to be addressed in the curriculum today may seem overwhelming. This situation has recently become even more daunting with the passage of the No Child Left Behind legislation, with its mandated "high stakes" testing and accountability system for demonstrating school effectiveness. However, the situation may not be as dire as it seems. In the past 15 years, a growing body of theory and research in the area of character education suggests that a well-conceived and conducted character education program may be an effective means of addressing all of these seemingly disparate goals. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and synthesize this evidence. (1) Research suggests that comprehensive, high quality character education, as defined below, is not only effective at promoting the development of good character, but is a promising approach to the prevention of a wide range of contemporary problems. These include aggressive and antisocial behaviors, drug use, precocious sexual activity, criminal activities, academic under-achievement, and school failure. Each of these problems, individually, has been addressed through a variety of approaches, and some of these approaches have been found to be reasonably effective, although many have not. However, there is increasing evidence that character education programs focused on the broader goal of promoting the overall positive development of youth are at least as effective as more specific programs aimed at preventing particular negative behaviors. (2)

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