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The Education of Character

Scientific American Mind, 2012
Scientists, politicians and celebrities are remaking schools as gyms for the brain where teachers build the mental brawn for attention, perseverance and emotional ...
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The Varieties of Character and Some Implications for Character Education

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2017
The moral and civic dimensions of personal character have been widely recognized and explored. Recent work by philosophers, psychologists, and education theorists has drawn attention to two additional dimensions of character: intellectual character and "performance" character.
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Politics of Character Education

Educational Policy, 2004
Character education’s history in the United States goes back to the beginning of public schools. The emphasis and profile has waxed and waned, frequently with political trends. The current standards-based environment poses particular threats and challenges to character education.
Marvin W. Berkowitz, Robert W. Howard, Esther F. Schaeffer   +2 more
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Character Education or Citizenship Education?

2019
The resurgence of interest in character education in the UK, and the forms it has taken, reflect a general trend in education to promote a narrow kind of individualised and responsibilised citizenship. This chapter considers character education as a form of self-work, whereby individuals are expected to develop their individual capacity to confront the
Lee Jerome, Ben Kisby
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A Case for Character Education

The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 2000
It is not the brains that matter most, hut that which guides them—character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
W. Bryce Hagedorn, B. Grant Hayes
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Is There a Place for Character Education?

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
Recent trends in school curricula place a heavy focus on the improvement of basic skills test scores. As a result, the role of character education has been diminished. This article provides a rationale for the incorporation of a character education program within the school curricula, a working definition of character education, and the role of ...
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College Education and Character

The Educational Forum, 1950
(1950). College Education and Character. The Educational Forum: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 133-144.
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Character education and giftedness

High Ability Studies, 2009
This special issue focuses on current international research on character education and giftedness.
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Aristotelian Character Education

Journal of Moral Education, 2015
Kristjan Kristjannson has written a book that will animate the thinking of educational philosophers and theorists of moral education as well as practitioners interested in character education.
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An Investigation in Character Education

The Journal of Educational Research, 1936
The purpose of this investigation1 was twofold: (1) to determine the influence of the elementary and secondary schools on character and (2) to secure recommendations for a character education program. Three hundred graduate and undergraduate students in the Educa tional Sociology classes of New York University were asked to evaluate carefully their ...
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