Rethinking Resilience in Character Education

This timely volume offers a nuanced reassessment and understanding of resilience through the lens of virtue ethics and character education, presenting practical strategies for the use of narratives to implement a virtue-ethical approach to resilience in classrooms.

Autorentext

Emma Cohen de Lara is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Amsterdam University College, Netherlands; Research Fellow at VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Senior Research Fellow at the Civic Humanism Center for Character and Professional Ethics, University of Navarra, Spain.

Tessa Leesen is Associate Professor of History at University College Tilburg and the Tilburg Center of the Learning Sciences of Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part 1: Resilience and Virtue Ethics

Chapter 1: Re-valuing resilience: a virtue ethical approach

Chapter 2: Beyond psychological resilience: a moral approach

Part 2: Resilience and Vulnerability

Chapter 3: When resilience falls short: lessons from Cicero's hardships for today's students

Chapter 4: The birth of a classic out of the spirit of failure: Max Weber's case

Chapter 5: Enhancing students' media resilience through literature education: an educational design based on work and authorship of A.F.Th. van der Heijden

Part 3. Resilience and Other Virtues

Chapter 6: Socratic resilience, Platonic poetics, and character education

Chapter 7: Education and role models of political resilience in Tacitus' Life of Agricola

Chapter 8: The City of God and the Augustinian concept of 'peregrinus'

Chapter 9: Virtues as the building blocks of resilience: Christine de Pizan's educational project in The Book of the City of Ladies

Chapter 10: Lessons from Montaigne for character development in higher education

Concluding reflections: a way forward for resilience in character education