Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Kirsi Tirri -- Preparing Ethical Professionals as a Challenge for Teacher Education / Elizabeth Campbell -- Leadership with a Difference in Schools Serving Disadvantaged Communities: Arenas for Success / Christopher Day and Olof Johansson -- Moral Profiles of Successful Urban School Principals / Eija Hanhimäki -- A Case of a Deacon in a Challenging Urban School / Eija Hanhimäki -- Adolescent Mindsets and the Education of Ethical Sensitivity / David Scott Yeager -- Youngsters in Transformative and Reproductive Processes of Moral and Citizenship Education / Wiel Veugelers -- Intercultural Awareness among Students in German-Italian Schools / Vera Husfeldt and Frank D. Bauer -- Morality and Feelings in Religious Education / Theo van der Zee -- How Are Human Rights Observed in Schools? / Kristiina Holm , Kirsi Tirri and Eija Hanhimäki -- The Just Community Approach to Democratic Education: Some Affinities / Wolfgang Althof -- Interaction of Science and Values in Schools / Jean-Luc Patry , Sieglinde Weyringer and Alfred Weinberger -- Education of the Cooperative Competitive Citizen / Márta Fülöp -- The Editor / Kirsi Tirri.

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Nowadays, schools face the challenge of creating pedagogical environments that are sensitive to numerous individual backgrounds in order to support students’social and academic success. Urban schools are communities with rich possibilities to learn how to think, feel and act morally. In this task, principals, teachers, parents and students of the schools each have their own voice. All these voices have to be heard in order to build communities with moral sensibilities. This book brings together recent work by international researchers from nine countries in the fields of moral development and citizenship education. The book consists of twelve chapters and it is divided into three parts. While the first part deals with the voices of urban school educators, the second part contains chapters with the focus on students. The third part is about curriculum, programs and practices in schools that contribute to the education of moral sensibilities in the school communities. This book can be used as a textbook in moral and citizenship education or as an updated research report on international research on moral sensibilities.