A 3 minute video from Daniel Wright (Deputy Head and Teaching Fellow) via the FutureLearn course left plenty to question and discuss. So let’s take this one comment at a time. How do we go about designing and delivering a taught …
Week 1 of the Future Learn course completed Kristjan Kristjansson’s “Ten Myths About Character, Virtue and Virtue Education – Plus Three Well-Founded Misgivings” is one of the key readings I challenge myself to tackle. I tackled it, it was tough. …
In previous posts I shared my understanding of the four character domains and unqualified understanding of phronesis or judgement. Alternatively, character wisdom is more important than developing intellectual, moral, civic or performance virtues. After the first few sessions of the …
Well-being. Obviously. – Ian Morris Over the past three months I have frequently hijacked Ian’s Friday visits to the Academy. More often than not it has been to confirm a line of enquiry regarding our proposed Diploma (think a balance …
There has been an out pouring of Character Education, Values and Virtues this past weekend. I hardly been able to keep up. Friday morning I attended Ian Morris’s session at the Wellington family INSET – ‘What’s the point of school? Well-being. Obviously.’ Ian …
Values, virtues and character – in action There is a time for thinking and a time for doing. We have been learning and thinking a lot about values, virtues, character, badges and Diplomas. Now we are moving towards the doing. …
I have read, watched and consumed a fair quantity of values, virtues and character content in the past month. By chance, I stumbleupon an up coming FutureLearn (MOOC) course “What is Character? Virtue Ethics in Education.” Character heavyweights contributing to the …
Keeping in mind that “we are a long way from knowing precisely ‘what works’ in terms of specific approaches and programmes,” (Gary Walsh) I am trying to define my own framework for Values based Education. Ian Morris has confirmed with …
