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Character Initiative Handouts
Some people have engaged members of our community of Rome, New York, to determine whether or not the city should become a "City of Character."
Actually, the target has moved several times over the months, first, to identify community problems that might be related to character, and then, to raise awareness of the need for character in the community. While the targets may be desirable and the interest earnest, the real question at hand is what can make a difference.
The material that follows was presented in one form or another to interested participants to help develop a sensible approach.
Enjoy!
- A Character Education Question
- Are virtues what should be taught?
- Summit Issues
- While non-directive forums are sometimes useful, is it a valuable approach for character education?
- Ethics and a Character Summit
- How to make progress teaching character.
- Character Summit Notebook Review
- A critique of possible handbook entries used at a summit for another community.
[This is not included because the criticisms were specific to their program.]
- Sisyphus the Myth and You
- A practical lesson in character.
- A Good Start
- A teacher's introduction to character.
- Great Thinkers examine daily living
- Great thinkers turned their intellect to deal with the simple daily problems of living.
- My thoughts on how to proceed
- The initial explanation of a more practical approach to character education.
- Character Posters
- Posters that share wisdom and stimulate thought.
- To Think versus To Be
- Rote learning versus process
- Pushing Character
- An alternative to pushing virtues, more likely to succeed.
- This I believe
- Draft piece for National Public Radio series.
- Patience is no virtue
- Why patience is a reward rather than a virtue.
- Improving Character
- Rote learning versus process.
- 2002 Letter to a Professor of Character
- What is taken for granted isn?t necessarily so.
- 2002 Character Education powerpoint
- Options for educating character.
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