Posted on Thursday 30th September 2010 What part do the family,
community values, the media and religion play in influencing and
shaping character? How young people’s values and virtues are
formed in modern society is one of the key themes of a brand new
book by education expert Professor James Arthur, of the
University of Birmingham. Of Good Character brings together the
results of the largest UK study of its kind to date exploring
what teachers, parents and pupils feel about moral and character
education. It also looks at why character in political, public
and education policy is so important and asks whether perhaps
the lack of a moral framework and language may be one of the key
reasons why character education is so poorly explored or
developed in UK society. The book, which has launched at St
Anne’s College, Oxford, today, promises to make a significant
contribution to the emerging field of Character Education in the
UK and internationally. It examines various contexts in detail,
identifying clear ideas