Teaching Character and Virtue in Schools addresses the contemporary issues of quantification and measurement in educational settings. The authors draw on the research of the Jubilee Centre at the ...University of Birmingham in order to investigate the concern that the conventional wisdom, sound judgement and professional discretion of teachers is being diminished and control mistakenly given over to administrators, policymakers and inspectors which in turn is negatively effecting pupils' character development.
The books calls for subject competence to be complemented by practical wisdom and good character in teaching staff. It posits that the constituent virtues of good character can be learned and taught, that education is an intrinsically moral enterprise and that character education should be intentional, organised and reflective. The book draws on the Jubilee Centre's expertise in support of its claims and successfully integrates the fields of educational studies, psychology, sociology, philosophy and theology in its examination of contemporary educational practices and their wider effect on society as a whole. It offers sample lessons as well as a framework for character education in schools.
The book encourages the view that character education is about helping students grasp what is ethically important and how to act for the right reasons so that they can become more autonomous and reflective individuals within the framework of a democratic society. Particularly interested readers will be educational leaders, teachers, those undertaking research in the field of education as well as policy analysts with a keen interest in developing the character and good sense of learners today.
This research aims to analyze moral values and their implementation in increasing the spiritual intelligence of santri. This study is a qualitative descriptive study with a phenomenological approach. ...Data were collected by means of interviews, observations, and documentation studies. Then the data were analyzed by data collection, data reduction, data presentation and conclusions/verification. The results of the study indicate that the values of moral education implemented are the values of Tawadlu’, discipline, honesty, and simplicity. Moral education is implemented with a management approach, namely planning, implementation, and supervision. Planning starts from deliberation to program determination. The implementation of moral education is integrated into scheduled Islamic boarding school programs such as muhadoroh kubro (public speaking) activities, deliberation, nadzaman, tasrifan, and other programs. Furthermore, moral education is evaluated during the activity (formative) and after the activity (summative).
Moral education with blended learning is being heartedly discussed in college education. To foster students’ virtue through education is an important task of higher education. College English, with a ...vast number of students, is the key field to complete the task. To better enhance efficiency of moral education, this paper proposes that blended learning be an efficient method to construct moral education in college English. The paper presents an introduction to moral education, literature review of moral education and blended learning, questionnaire and data analysis, and corresponding measurements of how to construct moral education with blended learning. The paper finds out that (1)blended learning is a beneficial teaching approach in moral education (2) 88.16% (380 Ss in total) understand the concept “moral education” (3)teaching models with blended learning should be constructed so as to put moral education into practice (4)measures need to be proposed to integrate moral education in college English teaching.
Seduced, Abandoned, and Rebornexposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into ...respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of seducers in the burgeoning marketplace of early America, from corrupt peers to licentious prostitutes, from pornographic authors to firebrand preachers, these self-proclaimed moral guardians crafted advice and institutions for youth, hoping to guide them safely away from harm and toward success. By penning didactic novels and advice books while building reform institutions and colleges, they sought to lead youth into dutiful behavior. But, thrust into the market themselves, these moral guides were forced to compromise their messages to find a popular audience. Nonetheless, their calls for order did have lasting impact. In urban centers in the Northeast, middle-class Americans became increasingly committed to their notions of chastity, piety, and hard work. Focusing on popular publications and large urban centers, Hessinger draws a portrait of deeply troubled reformers, men and women, who worried incessantly about the vulnerability of youth to the perils of prostitution, promiscuity, misbehavior, and revolt. Benefiting from new insights in cultural history,Seduced, Abandoned, and Rebornlooks at the way the categories of gender, age, and class took rhetorical shape in the early republic. In trying to steer young adults away from danger, these advisors created values that came to define the emerging middle class of urban America.
Humans are social beings who mutually cooperate and interact with each other that have an impact on the changes and dynamics of a complex life, both individually and in groups that may be able to ...uphold the value and dignity and vice versa, it can be influenced by individual and group characteristics in living his life. The purpose of this study is to describe the application and outcome of character education based on six value systems. This study applied descriptive method with literature review analysis. The results of the analysis show that the character of education based on the six value systems can be applied in various levels of education from basic education to higher education and educational outcomes can have the characteristics of value for use, or benefits for the life of the community worthy both materially and spiritually that can solve the problem, Improvement and change of valuable moral, mental, and spiritual skills.
Family complexity as a unique social group, there are difficulties in its study and this requires the cooperation of as many sciences as possible, both social and natural. According to the criterion, ...there are the following forms of family: one form is a totem clan when it is characterized by one name that is common to all members of the genus, and it is symbolized by a sign and the belief in the same origin. In this family, children are determined by their mother's line, and in that basis lies a group marriage in which it is not known exactly who the father is, but since the birth is under the protection of the clan, in a way all the children are his. common. Moral education is one of the important factors of any humane and democratic society. It is a very complex process. It is influenced by a number of factors. It is the duty of the educator to prevent bad influences and to form positive moral qualities in the educator. The process of moral education is "the process of forming the moral qualities of man, the formation of his consciousness, views and attitudes, feelings, will and character.
Because the world's atmosphere recently has deep moral instability, the desire to reach the century of ethics instead becomes a century of minus ethics. Even though the Islamic ummah has a role model ...in terms of ethics and morals, namely the figure of the Prophet Muhammad SAW, it becomes a necessity for every Muslim to know him through Shirah An-Nabawiyah, which is beautifully explained in the monumental writing Ar-Rahīqu Al-Makhtūm by the great scholar Syakh Shafy AlRahmān AlMubārakfūrī. The purpose of this study is to examine how Rasulullah SAW developed the thought of moral education contained in the book Ar-Rahīqu Al-Makhtūm by Sheikh Shafy Al-Rahmān Al-Mubārakfūrī. The method used in this study is the library research method with documentation techniques, while the analysis uses content analysis and historical analysis. The results of the study show that there is a moral education that the Prophet SAW developed in the book Ar-Rahīqu Al-Makhtūm by Syekh Shafy Al-Rahmān Al-Mubārakfūrī, namely Rabbāniyah, Insāniyah, and Syumūliyah. The Rabbāniyah or religious dimension is by maintaining human relations with God, namely reviving faith and enlivening makhdhah worship. The Insāniyah dimension includes honesty (shiddiq), responsibility, discipline, hard work, creativity/innovation, independence (i'timad), curiosity (research), and reading/literacy. While Syumuliyah: achievement, democracy, social concern, friendship/loyal friends. Of the three aspects of moral education, the Rabbāniyah dimension is the most dominant of the other dimensions, showing that the human relationship with God is the top priority.
This study contains the problems of adolescent moral education in the farming family environment in the Malampah Pasaman kenagarian. Then it has the purpose of knowing the morals of the child and the ...efforts of parents to improve the morals of the child. The research was conducted by descriptive qualitative method. With data sources of parents, children, alim ulama, wali nagari, and traditional figures. The data collection techniques used in this study include observation, interviews and documentation in looking for data related to the title of the study that is directly sourced from family or community in Malampah Pasaman. The data analysis techniques used in this study are through the stages of data reduction, data display, and conclution drawing / verification. As a result of this study, the problem of adolescent moral education in the farming family environment in the Malampah Pasaman kenagarian. The conclusion of this article says that children's morals are problematic such as drunkenness, gambling, smoking, promiscuity, disrespect and resistance to parents.
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