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Lickona, Thomas – Journal of Character Education, 2018
Robert McGrath's article has the great virtue of asking an important question: "What is character education?" He argues that currently "what it means to call something a character education program remains unclear." Without a clear definition, McGrath says, one cannot differentiate character education from other programs…
Descriptors: Values Education, Definitions, Prosocial Behavior, Emotional Development
Fowers, Blaine J. – Journal of Character Education, 2018
McGrath presents a prototyping proposal to better classify character education programs. He proposes 7 key elements that can facilitate identifying more and less typical programs. This proposal appears to be a very good start for improving the organization of the character education field and facilitating research. This commentary highlights 4…
Descriptors: Definitions, Values Education, Classification, Self Concept
Testing and Measuring the Impact of Character Education on the Learning Environment and Its Outcomes
Lovat, Terence; Dally, Kerry – Journal of Character Education, 2018
The article aims to contextualize and summarize essential findings from the 268-page Australian Government Report titled, "Project to Test and Measure the Impact of Values Education on Student Effects and School Ambience." The project was one of a number of values education projects funded by the Government from 2003 to 2010 under the…
Descriptors: Values Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Outcomes of Education
Hoedel, Joseph M.; Lee, Robert E. – Journal of Character Education, 2018
This 15-year program of research explored the extent to which prosocial attitudes and behavior of high school students were increased by focused lesson plans administered in dedicated high school classrooms over 1 or 2 academic semesters. The narrative describes the evolution of the Character Development and Leadership Program from a pilot study…
Descriptors: High School Students, Leadership Training, Values Education, Lesson Plans
Mandelbaum, Toni – Journal of Character Education, 2018
This research intended to further our understanding of the construct grit, defined as maintaining persistence and passion when pursuing long-term goals (Duckworth et al., 2007). The study had 2 aims: first to confirm a correlation between the construct of grit and an individual's attachment style and second, to examine this relationship in high…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, High School Seniors, Attachment Behavior, Goal Orientation
Hamsher, Sarah – Journal of Character Education, 2018
Character education in schools is implemented using different approaches. The current practices related to character education, though, include educators implementing preplanned lessons and activities from published programs. Yet, these current practices have mixed reviews in large- and small-scale studies. The purpose of this article is to…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, Causal Models, Attribution Theory
Ettekal, Andrea Vest; Burkhard, Brian; Ferris, Kaitlyn A.; Moore, Kristina L.; Lerner, Richard M. – Journal of Character Education, 2018
Given the ubiquity of youth sport, it has the potential to impact character development among millions of American youth. However, findings about the youth sport-character development relation have been mixed. Character education may be necessary to optimize the sport environment to promote character attributes. There is much knowledge of what…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Athletics, High School Students, High Schools
McGrath, Robert E. – Journal of Character Education, 2017
Larry Nucci, in his article "Character: A Multifaceted Developmental System," has outlined a model of character that focuses on 4 domains of the moral system. This response focuses on 2 issues. The first is Nucci's equation of character with moral functioning. My research has led me to propose that 3 elements are essential to any…
Descriptors: Values Education, Ethical Instruction, Models, Caring
Berkowitz, Marvin W.; Bier, Melinda C.; McCauley, Brian – Journal of Character Education, 2017
A growing body of research on character education offers the opportunity to derive lessons on effective practice. While there is little focused research on the effectiveness of specific practices, reviews of effective programs have been mined for well over a decade to reach conclusions about "what works in character education." More…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Values Education, Literature Reviews, Evidence Based Practice
Callina, Kristina Schmid; Lerner, Richard M. – Journal of Character Education, 2017
Nucci (this issue) gives a compelling conceptualization of the ideas needed to understand character as a multifaceted developmental system. In this article, we focus on the idea of coherence as it applies to understanding character development, education, and assessment. Using ideas from relational developmental systems (RDS) metatheory, we…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Values Education, Personality Development, Ethics
Moroney, Deborah A.; Devaney, Elizabeth – Journal of Character Education, 2017
This paper reviews the evidence on staff practices and quality programs that foster character development through social and emotional learning. The paper describes the state of the OST workforce, and barriers and opportunities to adding social and emotional learning to their job description. Specifically, the paper provides an overview of the…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Values Education, Emotional Development, Social Development
Farrington, Camille A. – Journal of Character Education, 2017
This paper responds to Berkowitz, Bier, and McCauley's description of effective features and practices that support character development by pushing on the question of "how" child and youth environments might "build character." Acknowledging the challenges of drawing on program evaluations and extant studies of character…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Values, Program Evaluation, Values Education
Nucci, Larry – Journal of Character Education, 2017
Character is a developmental system embedded within the self-system. This Relational Developmental Systems (RDS) view is in juxtaposition with virtue theory and accounts of character in terms of moral identity. The character system includes 4 components 3 of which: basic moral cognition (as described within domain theory); other regarding; and…
Descriptors: Values Education, Moral Values, Self Concept, Ethics
Urban, Jennifer Brown; Trochim, William M. – Journal of Character Education, 2017
This article presents how character development practitioners, researchers, and funders might think about evaluation, how evaluation fits into their work, and what needs to happen in order to sustain evaluative practices. A broader view of evaluation is presented whereby evaluation is not just seen as something that is applied at a program level,…
Descriptors: Personality, Systems Approach, Evaluation Methods, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Durlak, Joseph A. – Journal of Character Education, 2017
This article reviews literature that emphasizes how both research findings and practical applications have confirmed the fundamental importance of program implementation in the spread of successful character education interventions. Attention is given to defining implementation, explaining its major elements and why it is so important, discussing…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Values Education, Definitions, Intervention