BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 MORALITY AS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION -- The diverse functions of practical morality -- Differing characterisations of the moral domain -- The new emphasis on civic virtues -- Moral imagination and moral deliberation -- Notes -- References -- 2 CROSS QUESTIONS AND CROOKED ANSWERS -- What is the problem of moral education? -- Recent reflection on moral education -- The cultural roots of the contemporary problem of moral education -- The liberal conception of moral education -- Moral aspiration: what price a modern restatement? -- An optimistic conclusion? -- Notes -- References -- 3 MORAL EDUCATION IN A PLURALIST LIBERAL DEMOCRACY -- Dimensions of moral pluralism -- Moral education in common schools: efforts to avoid diversity -- Essential features of moral learning -- The scope of moral education in common schools -- Notes -- References -- 4 AGENCY AND CONTINGENCY IN MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION -- Moral development and its parameters -- Moral development and the enterprise culture -- The self and its social world -- Clues for reconstruction -- References -- 5 EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP -- The nature and importance of citizenship -- The need for citizenship education in schools -- Citizenship and separate schools -- Citizenship and personal autonomy -- Citizenship and national identity -- Notes -- References -- 6 THE DEMANDS OF MORAL EDUCATION -- The development of moral reason -- Limitations of the rational approach -- Moral education as personal fulfilment -- The development of rational practice -- The social dimension of moral learning -- Features of the moral life -- Moral education as initiation into social practices -- 7 HOW TO SEEM VIRTUOUS WITHOUT ACTUALLY BEING SO -- Behind the facade of moral consensus.

Moral immaturity and counterfeit virtue -- Why a shared public system of moral education is impossible -- The inadequacy of a 'shared public morality' -- 8 EDUCATION IN CHARACTER AND VIRTUE -- Conceptions of 'character education' -- 'Non-expansive' conceptions of education in character and virtue -- Critique of 'non-expansive' conceptions -- Expansive conceptions of education in character and virtue -- Notes -- References -- 9 PLURALISM, MORAL IMAGINATION AND MORAL EDUCATION -- The nature of pluralism -- Moral imagination -- Two aspects of moral imagination -- Moral education -- Notes -- References -- 10 POSTMODERNISM AND THE EDUCATION OF CHARACTER -- Moral realism and character education in a postmodern world -- Particularism and the patterning of reasons -- The perspectival nature of ethical reasoning -- Two conceptions of character -- Character as the capacity to respond to contingencies -- Character education: the way forward -- Notes -- References -- 11 AGAINST RELATIVISM -- Moral relativism and what is wrong with it -- The arguments -- The argument from moral disagreement -- The argument from respect -- The 'argument' from the dislike of argument -- A confusion about belief -- Relativism and (absolute) truth-in-a-situation -- An argument for absolutism -- Whither moral education? -- Notes -- References -- 12 THE ARTS, MORALITY AND POSTMODERNISM -- Section 1: The arts and morality -- Preface -- Introduction -- Polarisation -- Purposive or autonomous -- Source of confusion -- Meaning in the arts -- Section 2: Postmodernism -- The self -- Language and thought -- Power of the media -- Objectivity -- News media -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13 'BEHAVING MORALLY AS A POINT OF PRINCIPLE' -- Moral motivation -- Why do we need moral motivation? -- Making sense of morality-religious and secular ways -- Notes -- References.

14 WEAKNESS, WANTS AND THE WILL -- The gap between moral beliefs and moral conduct -- The failure of moral education to address the problem -- The nature of moral weakness and moral motivation -- Implications for moral education -- Note -- References -- INDEX.