Professor Andrew Peterson This Position Paper has been shared by the Jubilee Centre ahead of the latest webinar in its Civic Virtue and the Common Good’ series, Civic Virtue, Devolving Power and Empowering Citizens. A recording of this session, can be viewed below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hNw6CJ7rxY The first three of these webinars, chaired by Lord James O’Shaughnessy,... Continue Reading →
Professor Andrew Peterson and Dr. David Civil That which follows was first written as a position paper, shared with the panel for the Jubilee Centre’s public webinar, Civic Virtues, Formative Institutions, and Flourishing Communities, held on Tuesday 5th July 2022. Chaired by Senior Research Fellow, Lord James O’Shaughnessy, the webinar welcomed MP for Hereford and South... Continue Reading →
Professor Andrew Peterson and Dr. David Civil That which follows was first written as a position paper, shared with the panel for the Jubilee Centre's public webinar, Civic Virtue, Service and the Voluntary Spirit, held on Tuesday 18th January 2022. Chaired by Senior Research Fellow, Lord James O’Shaughnessy, this session welcomed Labour Member of Parliament for... Continue Reading →
Dickens’s Carol Philosophy When Dickens gave his first public reading on 27 December 1853 at Birmingham Town Hall, he chose ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1843). No doubt the timing had something to do with his choice of story, but what his selection also suggests is that he felt it a tale important to share. And... Continue Reading →
Charlotte Tibbs is an Assistant Principal at Springwest Academy – a mixed comprehensive school serving the local community of Feltham in Hounslow. In this blog, Charlotte describes character education at Springwest, and how this has developed. Character Education at Springwest Academy Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true... Continue Reading →
An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene light of science, has shown me this pregnant little fact: Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place... Continue Reading →
Lyndsey Bolton (School Improvement Leader), Rachael Sharpe (Executive Headteacher) and Neil Moir (CEO) form the Character Education Team at Alumnis Multi Academy Trust (MAT). In this blog, the team describe the approach to character education that they have taken across the Alumnis MAT. An Inspiring Approach to Character Education In a society where education is... Continue Reading →
Background to the Police Code of Ethics Encouraged by the College of Policing and coinciding with the professionalisation agenda of policing in England and Wales, the police Code of Ethics was published in 2014, marking the first in a number of changes to professionalise the police. The police Code of Ethics sets out and defines... Continue Reading →
Courageous literature One of the most famous passages of literature, Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy, is, in fact, a reflection on the nature of courage: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing... Continue Reading →
Kenny is Character Education Lead at Emmanuel College, Gateshead, where he also teaches religion and philosophy. He is in the third year of the MA Character Education programme and discusses in this blog how he is implementing a strategic approach to character development across the school. Kenny Primrose Like many character educators, I was interested... Continue Reading →
Professor Andrew Peterson and Dr. David Civil Jubilee Centre For Character and Virtues That which follows was first written as a position paper, shared with the panel for the Jubilee Centre Public webinar, 'Civic Virtue, Community and The Common Good'. Chaired by Senior Centre Research Fellow, Lord James O’Shaughnessy this session featured Jason Cowley, Editor... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Moors I have had the privilege of being an Assistant Headteacher at Woodbrook Vale School in Loughborough for nearly three years. Some of my areas of responsibility include, but are not restricted to, inclusion, attendance, pastoral agenda, personal development and character. I feel extremely fortunate to have the responsibility remit I do, allowing for... Continue Reading →
Identifying empathy Empathy is a staple of both moral education and literary studies. It both fits an Aristotelian prescription that links virtue and emotion (Battaly, 2008) and appeals to cognitive appreciations that treat literary texts as peculiarly experiential artefacts. As a result, the literary study of empathy has often drawn on thinking in moral education... Continue Reading →
Justice and society Aristotle’s discussion of virtue recognises its importance as a shared enterprise between fellows, stating justice “is complete virtue in its fullest sense, because it is the actual exercise of complete virtue. It is complete because he who possesses it can exercise his virtue not only in himself but towards his neighbour also;... Continue Reading →
Ben is Head of Theology and Philosophy at Reading School and a former Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. He completed the Jubilee Centre’s MA Character Education and is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Birmingham with a focus on theology and character formation. Reading School Reading School... Continue Reading →
David Church David Church is an award-winning teacher (Professional Teaching Awards, Cymru) and Head of Religious Studies at Mountain Ash Comprehensive School (MACS), Wales. Character education and social action at MACS has resulted in multiple awards, honours and once in a lifetime experiences for pupils. Character Education and Social Action at MACS As a teacher... Continue Reading →
Maureen Spelman currently serves as a Visiting Professor in Educational Leadership and the Coordinator of Character Initiatives at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Supported by the funding of the Kern Family Foundation, Maureen is completing her second year in the Jubilee Centre’s MA Character Education programme. Maureen Spelman, Ed. D. As part of my... Continue Reading →
Character Fiction, particularly literary fiction, does not shy away from reflecting on its own practice and purpose. Yet very few texts discuss the character educating possibilities of literature in so upfront a way as Robert Graves’s Goodbye to All That (one of our A-level set texts), which argues that the particularly moral flavour of English... Continue Reading →
What’s in a corpus? As language is our primary means of social interaction, the way by which we codify morality and the fundamental material of literacy, linguistics offers a useful suite of tools for learning. An instructive approach by which to undertake an examination of literacy is ‘corpus linguistics’. A corpus is essentially a collection... Continue Reading →
Since 2011, Erika Elkady has been Secondary Head of Jumeira Baccalaureate School (JBS) in Dubai, UAE. JBS is an International Baccalaureate (IB) Continuum School which became the first Kitemark School of Character outside the UK in November 2020. Erika is currently in her third year of study on the MA Character Education. In this blog, she discusses... Continue Reading →
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