Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

Lickona, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0743245075 / ISBN 13: 9780743245074

Published by Atria Books, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743245075
• ISBN 13: 9780743245074
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

Award-winning psychologist and educator Thomas Lickona offers more than one hundred practical strategies that parents and schools have used to help kids build strong personal character as the foundation for a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life.

Succeeding in life takes character, and Lickona shows how irresponsible and destructive behavior can invariably be traced to the absence of good character and its ten essential qualities: wisdom, justice, fortitude, self-control, love, a positive attitude, hard work, integrity, gratitude, and humility.

The culmination of a lifetime’s work in character education from one the preeminent psychologists of our time, this landmark book gives us the tools we need to raise respectful and responsible children, create safe and effective schools, and build the caring and decent society in which we all want to live.

About the Author

Thomas Lickona is a developmental psychologist and professor of education at the State University of New York at Cortland, where he directs the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs (respect and responsibility). The recipient of the Sandy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Character Education Partnership, he is the author of Educating for Character, which has been called "the bible of the character education movement."