{"title":"Introducing the complexity of character education: A review of Understanding character education: Approaches, applications and issues","authors":"M. Berkowitz","doi":"10.1080/03057240.2022.2132721","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This extended book review subjects a recent introduction to character education, by Watts, Fullard and Peterson, to critical scrutiny. While questioning some of the framing by the authors of intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation and their specification of the core concept of ‘character’, I conclude that this book both exemplifies the complex challenges of the field and is a useful primer for those wanting to read a broad and useful mapping of the terrain of character education.","PeriodicalId":47410,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Moral Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Moral Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2022.2132721","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT This extended book review subjects a recent introduction to character education, by Watts, Fullard and Peterson, to critical scrutiny. While questioning some of the framing by the authors of intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation and their specification of the core concept of ‘character’, I conclude that this book both exemplifies the complex challenges of the field and is a useful primer for those wanting to read a broad and useful mapping of the terrain of character education.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Moral Education (a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee) 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 which address a range of value issues and the process of valuing, in theory and practice, and also at the social and individual level. The journal regularly includes country based state-of-the-art papers on moral education and publishes special issues on particular topics.