2. Position 1: Teaching Traditional Values Schools should provide a firm education in ethical principles that help youth sort, analyze, and evaluate behaviors and values expressed in popular culture.

4. Views treated equally valid in classroom Feminist bias/Special Interests seeks special treatment in textbooks Value-neutral, value- relative and anything- goes approach Curriculum And Textbooks “Without clear and consistent standards of acceptable behavior and belief, our society is doomed to ethical destruction”. (p. 271)

5. Tradition Values Restored Schools were established to transmit those values to the young to preserve the values and society Values Education/Ethics Education/Moral Education/Character Education

6. Elementary: Highlight ideals Show individuals working together Signs and symbols reinforce American values Secondary: Family Values Citing acts of outstanding school citizenship Literature focusing on rewards for moral WORK FAMILY, RESPONSIBILITY, LOYALTY, DECENCY, AND RESPECT Other: Athletics – Prayer/Moral Conduct Moral Standards for licenses

8. Emancipation of students and teachers from the blinders of class-dominated ignorance, conformity, and thought control Definition of Liberation

9. Active participants in opposing oppression and improving democracy Students and Teachers

10. Liberate the individual and society Broadly distribute liberating power Goals

11. Values in Liberation Education Justice Equality Opposition to oppression and authoritarianism Critical understanding of cultural cross-currents in contemporary society and mechanisms of manipulation that hide ideological purposes Schooling is used by the dominant culture to secure its power The powerless can develop power through education

12. Teach subservience, obedience, and docility Traditional Values

13. The United States is the chosen country The United States has justice and equality for all The United States has the best economic system Raising questions about American values is anti-American

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