Beyond Custom: A Pragmatic Model for Moral Education
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Authors
Rodgers, Lindsay
Date
2014-09-08
Type
thesis
Language
eng
Keyword
Moral Education , Philosophy of Education
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This thesis concerns the present model of moral education in Ontario public schools: Finding Common Ground: Character Development in Ontario Schools, K-12. I argue that Finding Common Ground makes use of an impoverished form of virtue ethics in the construction of its model of moral education, and tacitly encourages assimilation and obedience rather than authentic moral becoming; it is a re-articulation of customary morality. To encourage authentic moral becoming, I propose a pragmatic, Deweyan model for moral education. This model is rooted in developing the capacities that encourage moral agency: imagination, reflection, and deliberation
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Thesis (Master, Education) -- Queen's University, 2014-09-05 18:12:35.204
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