Character Development through the Curriculum: Teaching and Assessing the Understanding and Practice of Virtue

Autor/inn/en	Pike, Mark A.; Hart, Peter; Paul, Shirley-Anne S.; Lickona, Thomas; Clarke, Paula
Titel	Character Development through the Curriculum: Teaching and Assessing the Understanding and Practice of Virtue
Quelle	In: Journal of Curriculum Studies, 53 (2021) 4, S.449-466 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Clarke, Paula)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0272
DOI	10.1080/00220272.2020.1755996
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Ethics; Pretests Posttests; Teaching Methods; Student Attitudes; Integrity; Self Control; Intimacy; Comparative Analysis; Secondary School Students; Foreign Countries; Values Education; Scores; Measures (Individuals); Outcomes of Education; Prosocial Behavior; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schülerverhalten; Integrität; Selbstbeherrschung; Intimität; Sekundarschüler; Ausland; Werterziehung; Messdaten; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	This article reports on the differential impact of a curriculum intervention on students' understanding and practice of virtue. The research is germane given Ofsted's new requirement that its inspectors should assess how the curriculum in all schools in England and Wales supports students' character development. Results are reported here for a total of 1226 eleven- and twelve-year-olds assessed at the beginning and end of their first secondary school term: 822 children in nine program schools, where students experienced the "Narnian Virtues" character education English curriculum, and 404 children in eight control schools that did not experience the intervention (2 lessons per week over 12 weeks). Mean scores for knowledge and understanding of virtues (wisdom, love, integrity, fortitude, self-control and justice) in the experimental group showed a significant increase from pre- to post-test, which was not the case for the control group. Although scores pre- to post-test for the experimental group declined on a number of (self-assessed) character measures, this decline was not as pronounced as it was for the control group. That children's understanding of character improved rapidly in the experimental group is important, as knowledge of virtue generally precedes behavioural application. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01