This practical book for teachers consists of fifteen learning sessions for use as either one-hour classroom lessons or as the basis for a school assembly, all pitched at the 4- to 8-year-old range. Each story functions as a springboard to learning...

Concerned with the theoretical and conceptual framework for reflecting about values, culture and education, Volume 1 provides an introduction to the series as a whole. It provides state and policy level analysis across the world.

Volume IV looks at the development of moral education, with particular relation to the context of cultural pluralism. There are discussions of philosophical issues of moral relativism as well as the application of theory to good practice.

Volume II considers values and culture at the institutional level. What constitutes a good 'whole school' approach in this arena? The book discusses key issues and reports on whole-school initiatives around the world.

Papers from several countries lend an international perspective to currently significant concerns and developments including democracy and democratic education, human rights, national identity and education for citizenship.