Educating Character Through the Arts (Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367709945 ISBN 13: 9780367709945

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This volume investigates the role of the arts in character education. Bringing together insights from esteemed philosophers and educationalists, it looks to the arts for insight into human character and explores the arts’ relationship to human flourishing and the development of the virtues.

Focusing on the moral value of art and considering questions of whether there can be educational value in imaginative and non-narrative art, the nine chapters herein critically examine whether poetry, music, literature, films, television series, videogames, and even gardening may improve our understanding of human character, sharpen our moral judgement, inculcate or refine certain skills required for virtue, or perhaps cultivate certain virtues (or vices) themselves.

Bringing together research on aesthetics, ethics, moral and character education, this book will appeal to students, researchers and academics of philosophy, arts, and education as well as philosophers of education, morality, aesthetics, and teachers of the arts.

About this title

About the Author

Laura D’Olimpio is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Panos Paris is Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK.

Aidan P. Thompson is Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367709945
• ISBN 13: 9780367709945
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: D'Olimpio Laura, Paris Panos, Thompson Aidan P.