1st Edition
Rethinking Resilience in Character Education Insights from Literature and Philosophy
Introduction
Emma Cohen de Lara and Tessa Leesen
Part 1: Resilience and Virtue Ethics
Chapter 1: Re-valuing resilience: a virtue ethical approach
Edward Brooks
Chapter 2: Beyond psychological resilience: a moral approach
Sergio R. Clavero García
Part 2: Resilience and Vulnerability
Chapter 3: When resilience falls short: lessons from Cicero’s hardships for today’s students
Tessa Leesen and Alkeline van Lenning
Chapter 4: The birth of a classic out of the spirit of failure: Max Weber’s case
Maxim Waldstein
Chapter 5: Enhancing students’ media resilience through literature education: an educational design based on work and authorship of A.F.Th. van der Heijden
Sander Bax and Eline Peeters
Part 3. Resilience and Other Virtues
Chapter 6: Socratic resilience, Platonic poetics, and character education
Miquel Solans
Chapter 7: Education and role models of political resilience in Tacitus’ Life of Agricola
Alvaro Sánchez-Ostiz
Chapter 8: The City of God and the Augustinian concept of ‘peregrinus’
Salomea Slobodian
Chapter 9: Virtues as the building blocks of resilience: Christine de Pizan’s educational project in The Book of the City of Ladies
Emma Cohen de Lara
Chapter 10: Lessons from Montaigne for character development in higher education
Tom Willems and Gerwin van der Laan
Concluding reflections: a way forward for resilience in character education
Tessa Leesen and Emma Cohen de Lara
Biography
Emma Cohen de Lara is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Amsterdam University College, Netherlands; Research Fellow at VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Senior Research Fellow at the Civic Humanism Center for Character and Professional Ethics, University of Navarra, Spain.
Tessa Leesen is Associate Professor of History at University College Tilburg and the Tilburg Center of the Learning Sciences of Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
