Lessons in character education: incorporating neoliberal learning in classroom resources
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Jerome, L. and Kisby, B. 2022. Lessons in character education: incorporating neoliberal learning in classroom resources. Critical Studies in Education. 63 (2), pp. 245-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2020.1733037
| Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Title | Lessons in character education: incorporating neoliberal learning in classroom resources |
| Authors | Jerome, L. and Kisby, B. |
| Abstract | This article examines a number of teaching resources produced by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, the leading centre for character education in the UK, in the light of the claim advanced by Kristján Kristjánsson, the centre’s deputy director, that various criticisms of character education are best regarded as ‘myths’. The analysis provided in this article highlights significant shortcomings with these teaching resources, suggesting that far from being mythical, concerns about character and virtue being unclear, redundant, old fashioned, essentially religious, paternalistic, anti-democratic, anti-intellectual, conservative, individualistic, and relative, would seem, at least in the resources produced by the centre at which Kristjánsson works, to be very well-founded. |
| Keywords | Character education; moral education; citizenship education; individualism; neoliberalism; teaching resources; virtues |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
| Journal | Critical Studies in Education |
| ISSN | 1750-8487 |
| Electronic | 1750-8495 |
| Publication dates | |
| Online | 25 Feb 2020 |
| 15 Mar 2022 | |
| Publication process dates | |
| Deposited | 05 Mar 2020 |
| Submitted | 22 Jul 2019 |
| Accepted | 18 Feb 2020 |
| Output status | Published |
| Accepted author manuscript | |
| Copyright Statement | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Education on 25/02/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17508487.2020.1733037 |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2020.1733037 |
| Web of Science identifier | WOS:000516670700001 |
| Language | English |
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