1st Edition
The Theory and Practice of Virtue Education
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part 1: Philosophical and theoretical foundations for educating the virtues
Chapter 1: Ancient Roads to Knowledge of Virtue: The Greek Philosophical Legacy
David Carr
Chapter 2: Healing Character Flaws
Howard Curzer
Chapter 3: Moral Growth: A Thomistic Account
John Hacker-Wright
Chapter 4: Stoicism Today: An alternative approach to cultivating the virtues
Christopher Gill
Chapter 5: Akrasia as a character trait: An obstacle for moral development
Paulien Snellen
Chapter 6: From ‘ordinary’ virtue to Aristotelian virtue
Nancy E. Snow
Part II: Theoretical and practical approaches for educating the virtues
Chapter 7: Plato on Dialogue as a Method for Cultivating the Virtues
Mark E. Jonas
Chapter 8: Assumptions and Doctrines that Thwart the Cultivation of Virtues in Teacher Education
Elizabeth Campbell
Chapter 9: Moral agency as teaching morally and teaching morality: A practical approach to moral education
Gillian R. Rosenberg
Chapter 10: The link between fiction and empathy as a trait of moral character: A pedagogical legend?
Bruce Maxwell
Chapter 11: Manners and the Moral Life
David McPherson
Chapter 12: Policy-led Virtue Cultivation: Can we nudge citizens towards developing virtues?
Fay Niker
Part III: Educating specific virtues
Chapter 13: The Nature and Nurture of Patriotic Virtue
Randall Curren and Charles Dorn
Chapter 14: Aristotelian Philia, Contemporary Friendship, and Some Resources for Studying Close Relationships
Blaine J. Fowers & Austen R. Anderson
Chapter 15: Can Gratitude Be Cultivated?
Terrance McConnell
Chapter 16: Courage in the Classroom
Candace Vogler
Conclusion
Biography
Tom Harrison is the Director of Education at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Birmingham. Tom is the Programme Lead for the MA Character Education.
David Walker is a former Senior Research Fellow at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues and currently a Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow at the University of Northumbria.
This collection of excellent chapters sits at the interface of education and ethical philosophy, and provides a smorgasbord of topics that should be of interest to educators wishing to understand the philosophical bases of virtues education as well as to philosophers wishing to explore practical applications of virtue theory to educational practice.
- Marvin W. Berkowitz, Ph.D. University of Missouri-St. Louis.
This book includes a collection of the most interesting and important papers from the 2016 Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues conference on cultivating virtue. The contributing authors include some of the most distinguished international academics leading the field. The book is a must read for anyone interested in human flourishing who wants to know more about the theory and practice of virtue education.
- Professor James Arthur, Director: Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham.
This is a conference volume of consistently high quality that avoids most of the pitfalls of the genre. Students and scholars who work in moral philosophy or the philosophy of education—and especially any whose work focuses on character and virtue—would benefit from an afternoon (or more) with this collection.
- Journal of Markets & Morality
