DISCIPLINE FOR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
DISCIPLINE FOR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
by Kevin Walsh
Summary: This book gives an enormous amount of practical information and concrete skills to help teachers and parents improve the quality and effectiveness with school-age children. It views discipline as an important vehicle to help children and youth improve the level of their moral lives and become contributing citizens in democracy. This is the most important book which Kevin Walsh has ever written.
Spirit of the Book: This book is oriented on every page to help parents and teachers work cooperatively to turn discipline into an ongoing engine to strengthen and improve the character of children and youth. Consistent with developmental psychology and democratic morality, this book sees character as one of the most urgent areas which today's young people must acquire. The recurring theme of this book is discipline with love so that children can develop their character to the fullest.
What this Book Gives You: This book gives three major gifts. First, it shows you how effective discipline can promote character and morality in children.. Second, it gives you a winning formula for discipline which has worked wherever it has been tried. This winning formula is Walsh's celebrated trinity of discipline: structure, intervention, and consistency. Third, it gives you various practical strategies by which parents and teachers can work together to promote discipline.
Distinctiveness: Why this Book is Special: This book is special for two major reasons:(1) it is the only major book on discipline which is rooted in morality and religion;(2) it gives you a tested successful framework for discipline which will always work no matter how you view discipline, e.g. tough love, reinforcement, supportive, etc.
Major Features: Major features include (1) a special chapter by James Michael Lee on the moral/religious base of discipline and how teachers and parents can use discipline for enhancing the child's moral life; (2) an important chapter on how school administrators can productively work with parents and teachers to promote discipline; (3) an enormous number of tested practical suggestions on how teachers and parents can use discipline effectively for character education: (4) Walsh's celebrated trinity of discipline: structure, intervention, and consistency.
Chapters
Part I-Backdrop to Discipline
1. Cultural
Crisis and Discipline
2. Human Development and Culture
3. Nature and
Development; The Foundation of Discipline
4. The Three Pivotal Dimensions of
Worthwhile Education
Part II-The Trinity of Discipline
5.
Discipline as Structure
6. Discipline as Intervention
7. Discipline as
Consistency
Part III-Some Key Contexts of Discipline
8.
The Context of Civic Responsibility
9. The Context of School
Administration
10. The Context of Morality and Religion
Part IV-Discipline into Tomorrow
The heart of this book is Walsh's famous
trinity of discipline:
The first leg of the trinity of discipline is structure, namely the ways in which teachers and parents establish and maintain overall limits in the child's psychological, social and physical environments.
The second leg of the trinity of discipline is intervention, namely the ways in which teachers and parents improve the child's behavior in a wide variety of environments and situations.
The third let of the trinity of discipline is consistency, namely the ways in which teachers an parents build and nourish symmetry between the school and the home, and between the mother and the father.
Dr. Kevin Walsh is a nationally-known authority on discipline and in his career has given nearly 3,000 talks to education association and parent groups throughout the United States. He has been interviewed by a wide variety of media including National Public Radio. The New York Times has featured Walsh and his viewed on discipline on its front page.
Price and
Such:
230 pages List Price: $19.95 ISBN
0-89135-080-2