Full Description
The Theory and Practice of Virtue Education offers the reader a comprehensive and authoritative account of both the theoretical and practical complexities of cultivating virtue in education and beyond. The book moves beyond the usual philosophical literature that merely discusses virtue in the abstract, and offers scholarly, research-informed suggestions for practice.
Drawn from a highly successful international conference organised by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, the chapters in this volume offer a unique insight into the varieties of approaches that leading scholars have identified for putting the learning and nurturing of virtues into practice. Featured are chapters from internationally acclaimed scholars primarily in the fields of philosophy, psychology and education, which are categorised under three headings: philosophical and theoretical foundations for cultivating virtues; developing virtues in practice; and nurturing specific virtues. Beginning with chapters that examine differing theoretical complexities of virtue education, the book then moves on to explore different approaches to nurturing virtue in the classroom and beyond. This practical approach is further evidenced in the final section, where individual virtues are discussed.
The Theory and Practice of Virtue Education highlights the theoretical complexity of putting virtue education into practice and, as a result, is of real use to researchers, academics and postgraduates in the fields of education, philosophy, psychology, sociology and theology. It should also be essential reading for educators in character and virtue.
Contents
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
