Character education and virtues A personalist pedagogical perspective

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Publicado: 2024-05-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.38123/rer.v3i1.398

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character education
virtues
Thomas Aquinas
pedagogical personalism

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v. 3 n. 1 (2024)

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Andrea Porcarelli
Universidad de Padua
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3098-7419 (não autenticado)

Resumo

The subject of character education has aroused increasing interest over the past decades, during which several specialised research centres have taken shape. As part of the awakening of interest in practical philosophy, extensive research on the ethics of virtues has been developed. There are some research centres, especially in the UK, which have linked character education and the development of virtues. A pedagogical framework that would be interesting to explore more deeply can be identified within the personalist approach, above all through the contribution of Thomas Aquinas. This paper develops the idea that Aquinas’s moral doctrine on virtues can be the ideal theoretical foundation for the education of character in the personalist sense.



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Andrea Porcarelli
Universidad de Padua
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3098-7419 (não autenticado)

Biografia do Autor

Andrea Porcarelli, Universidad de Padua

Associate Professor of General and Social Pedagogy – University of Padova – Department FISPPA (Philosophy, sociology, pedagogy, applied psychology)
Coordinator of the "Phd Course in Pedagogical Sciences of Education and Training" of the University of Padua. Part of the Teaching Board of the international PhD course “Religion, Culture and Public Life”. Member of SIPED (Italian Society of Pedagogy) and National Coordinator of the SIPED Research Group on "Religiosity and religious formation"; Member of the National Board of CIRPED (Centro Italiano di Ricerca Pedagogica). Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centro Studi Scuola Cattolica (CSSC) established at the Italian Episcopal Conference. Prize “Accademia As.pe.I.” (Associazione Pedagogica Italiana) 2015 and 2022, Italian Pedagogy Award, 2016 and 2022, issued by SIPED (Società Italiana di Pedagogia). Co-director of the Editorial Series "L'esperienza religiosa. Incontri multidisciplinari", at the francoangeli publisher (Milan). Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal "Dirigenti scuola". Main research paths: 1) Identity of Social Pedagogy and foundations of citizenship education. 2) Theoretical foundations of general pedagogy, with attention to its historical development and in connection with the possible application areas. 3) Pedagogy of school and personal services. 4) Education of religiosity and religious dimension of the person in relation to its social context and educational institutions that care for them, starting from the school.

Character education and virtues: A personalist pedagogical perspective. (2024). Revista de Educação Religiosa, 3(1), 9-26. https://doi.org/10.38123/rer.v3i1.398

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