Getting to the Why: A Practical Guide to Helping Students and Children Learn from Their Mistakes Using Character Remediation

Rubel, Rick

ISBN 10: 1645433579 / ISBN 13: 9781645433576

Published by Mascot Books, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Getting to the Why: A Practical Guide to Helping Students and Children Learn from Their Mistakes Using Character Remediation
• Publisher: Mascot Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1645433579
• ISBN 13: 9781645433576
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very good

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Synopsis

One of our main responsibilities as adults is to teach our young people to do the right thing when we are not around. This requires moral development. A combination of external discipline, self-understanding, and moral maturity should lead to self-discipline, and ultimately, moral development.

An important way to help young people develop their character is to help them learn from their mistakes. There are many ways to do this, but I believe in the power of the question. Sometimes, the questions we ask young people are more important that the statements we tell them. If we ask our students and children the right questions, we can help them get to their “why.”

Through the questioning outlined in my Character Remediation Program, young people should be able to answer three important questions when asked about their mistakes:

“Why did you do it?” “Why is it wrong?” and “if you knew it was wrong, why did you do it?” Getting to the Why serves as a guide to asking those questions to help young people discover their own truth and reasons, thereby improving their character and moral development.

About the Author

Rick Rubel has taught ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland for twenty-three years. He has co-authored and co-edited two text books on ethics that are being used by seventy-nine universities in the country. Sixteen years ago, he developed a program for Character Remediation. This is a focused and directed counseling program to help students learn from their mistakes. He has had some great successes and some failures with this program, and he explains in his book why some succeed and some fail. The central piece of his program is his Character Map ©️, where students can map their own character, gain self-understanding, and learn how to develop their character further. Mr. Rubel gives talks around the country at various educator forums and has implemented this program across dozens of universities and high schools. He has published articles about ethics in journals, magazines, and encyclopedias, and has also written books for children on character. He currently teaches at the Naval Academy and resides in Annapolis with his wife. He has two adult children and five grandchildren.