Resources for Higher Education

Richard Reeves, Director of Demos, explores the idea of ‘good character’.

A Question of Character

A series of reflections from young people about what character they believe you should possess to be a successful employee.

Character and Employment

A use full bibliography compiled by Marvin W. Berkowitz.

http://www.characterandcitizenship.org/

Character_Bibliography

A Resource from: Character Education Partnership (US)
http://www.character.org/
This American publication suggests eleven basic principles of character education.

Eleven_Principles_Of_Effective_Character_Education

The Institute for Excellence and Ethics have created a very useful set of evaluation tools. The tools can help benchmarking student competencies. One example of the tools is downloadable here. http://www.excellenceandethics.com/

Evaluation_Tools

This position paper sets forth an expanded view of character and character education that recognizes the importance of “performance character” as well as moral character. A resource from: www.cortland.edu/character .

Performance_Values

The American publication can help schools and others assess the effectiveness of their character education programmes. A Resource from: Character Education Partnership (US) http://www.character.org/

Quality_Standards

This overview booklet of the Smart and Good high schools programme gives some suggestions for good practices in schools that can help build Character. A resource from: http://www.cortland.edu/character/highschool

Smart_And_Good

This project carried out in Bristol and funded by the TDA was looking at what was required to develop a whole school policy for the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils.

Strategies_To_Promote_Pupil_Development

An evaluation of the NCSL Student Leadership programme. The programmes was designed to encourage young people to take on leadership roles in their schools and communities. A Resource from: NCSL.

Student_Leadership

In this chapter, taken from In D. Streight (Ed.), Parenting for Character: Five Experts, Five Practices .  Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education 2008, ( www.csee.org ) , Tom Lickona suggests how to develop strengths of character.

The_Power_Of_Modeling

BeCaL is a Learning Gateway for students, teachers, leaders and researchers in education. It promotes relationships between research, policy and practice in the vital area of values, learning and cultural development.  The website is full of useful resources.

http://www.becal.org.uk/

A website full of resources and also publishes a journal of values education – CAVE is an organisation that aims to alleviate social problems without indoctrination. The website has a number of free articles on various aspects of values and character education.

http://www.valueseducation.co.uk/

The Journal of Moral Education provides a unique interdisciplinary forum for consideration of all aspects of moral education and development across the lifespan. It contains philosophical analyses, reports of empirical research and evaluation of educational strategies.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03057240.asp

Dr Darling has developed a moral reasoning pedagogy in a Language Arts Curriculum for young children in Canada. She adapted a fable from Aesop’s Fables and created a dilemma situation during the story telling for young children to deliberate.

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/09575140220151440

Developing Fairness and Concern for Others. Linking educators, scholars, and citizens interested in sharing their work and learning more about research, practice, and activities in the area of moral development and education.

http://tigger.uic.edu/~lnucci/MoralEd/

Fictional characters’ struggles are of interest to students as they strive to set a course for their own life journey. This book will show how you can help your pupils to examine literary characters’ choices and commitments.

An online meeting place for people interested in values and learning.  The online learning centre suggests a process that will help teachers to develop their own whole school approach to values in education.

http://www.vitalhub.net/