Educating Character Through Stories
Published on 14. January 2015
175 pages
978-1-84540-793-3 (ISBN)
Description
What could be the point of teaching such works of bygone cultural and literary inheritance as Cervantes' Don Quixote and Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in schools today? This book argues that the narratives and stories of such works are of neglected significance and value for contemporary understanding of human moral association and character. However, in addition to offering detailed analysis of the moral educational potential of these and other texts, the present work reports on a pioneering project, recently pursued by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, concerned precisely with the use of these and other stories for moral and character education in schools. The success of the 'Knightly Virtues' project is an inspiring story in its own right and should therefore be of enormous interest to all schools, teachers and parents rightly concerned with this all-important aspect of their children's educational development.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Luton, Bedfordshire
United Kingdom
Product notice
Windows
File size
3,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84540-793-3 (9781845407933)
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David Carr | Tom Harrison
Educating Character Through Stories
Book
01/2015
Imprint Academic
€38.54
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front matter
- Title page
- Publisher information
- Foreword, Professor James Arthur
- Body matter
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Case for Character Education
- Chapter 2. Stories as Moral Knowledge
- Chapter 3. Approaches to and Uses of Stories for Character Education
- Chapter 4. The Knightly Virtues of Medieval Chivalry
- Chapter 5. The Stories of the Knightly Virtues Project
- Chapter 6. Implementation of the Knightly Virtues Programme
- Chapter 7. Knightly Virtues: Impact and Future Prospects
- Back matter
- References
