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A Third Grade Curriculum in Character Education. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, May 2009, Pages: 204
Dr. Garcia describes her experience designing and
teaching a Character Education curriculum to third
grade students in a prominently low-income school in
suburban Pennsylvania. Her research is called
teacher-research and her curriculum was based on the
critical,multicultural and feminist pedagogies
existing at the time. After designing a curriculum
framework, Dr.Garcia describes in her narrative her
experiences putting into effect her framework. The
results of her written assessments are analyzed
qualitatively by themes, and are based on her
knowledge of some specific statements of the
critical,multicultural, and feminist pedagogies. Her
results point to the fact of existing relationships
between the moral development of the students with
their actual interactions with others, corroborating
the findings that moral development is essentially
relational in scope since a very young age. She also
asserts that student oriented cultural materials may
benefit the students' literacy skills due to their
intrinsic personal context.She also asserts that the
media has a critical effect on the moral development
of the students and that educators need to teach
children how to evaluate the media.
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