Teaching Virtues: Building Character Across the Curriculum - Book Review

Adolescence, Fall, 2002

JACOBS, Don Trent, & JACOBS-SPENCER, Jessica, with contributions from JONES, Richard M., & DAWSON, Edwin J. Teaching Virtues: Building Character Across the Curriculum. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. 200pp. $35.00 (p).

Here's how to teach character education in a way that will encourage your students' health and happiness at the same time as improving their learning experience. Teaching Virtues explains the current reality facing teachers -- too much inspiration and not enough implementation -- and responds with specific psychological and pedagogical strategies. Based upon the universal virtues present in the holistic American Indian view of ethics, the methods in this book enable educators to unify character and curriculum. A more ethical and more educated student is the result.