Part 1: Introduction to teaching character
Character matters
What is character education?
Character education: theory and measurement
Character education: taught and caught
Part 2: Character education – taught
A taught course in character education
Teaching character through the curriculum
Assessing and evaluating character education
Part 3: Character education – caught
Whole-school approaches to teaching character
Teachers as character educators
Building character through co-curricular programmes
Working with parents and the community
Part 4: Appendices – supporting materials
How to become a school of character – self audit
A framework for character education in the UK
Character education teaching resources
Index
Tom Harrison is the Director of Education at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham. He has a leading role on several research and development projects and in particular those relating to Character Education. Ian Morris is Head of Wellbeing at Wellington College in Berkshire. He has taught religious studies and wellbeing in the independent and state sectors since 2000. John Ryan is Director of Primary Education at the University of Birmingham, where he is responsible for the PGCE Dip Ed course and teaches professional studies.
...A perfect academic background... character education is of
utmost importance in our current educational climate...Alongside
the work of the Jubilee Centre of Character and Virtues, this book
will help lead the way in the UK, and global, education systems to
put character education at the heart of learning.
*Keith Ellis, Deputy Headteacher at Oakthorpe Primary School*
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