TY - JOUR
T1 - In Defence of 'Non-Expansive' Character Education
AU - Kristjánsson, K.
N1 - Copyright 2004 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam. All rights reserved.
PY - 2002/5/1
Y1 - 2002/5/1
N2 - I first put the notion of non-expansive character education in context by locating its place within recent trends in values education and, in particular, by distinguishing it from more expansive accounts such as civic education and critical postmodernism. I argue that the essential characteristics of non-expansive character education are, on the one hand, moral cosmopolitanism and, on the other, methodological substantivism. In the second part of the essay, I defend this sort of character education against various common criticisms, with special reference to two canonical works of the movement, by Lickona and Kilpatrick. Non-expansive character education stands out, in the end, as a reasonable middle-ground proposal with neither too little nor too much meat on its bones.
AB - I first put the notion of non-expansive character education in context by locating its place within recent trends in values education and, in particular, by distinguishing it from more expansive accounts such as civic education and critical postmodernism. I argue that the essential characteristics of non-expansive character education are, on the one hand, moral cosmopolitanism and, on the other, methodological substantivism. In the second part of the essay, I defend this sort of character education against various common criticisms, with special reference to two canonical works of the movement, by Lickona and Kilpatrick. Non-expansive character education stands out, in the end, as a reasonable middle-ground proposal with neither too little nor too much meat on its bones.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-9752.00266
DO - 10.1111/1467-9752.00266
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0039485980
SN - 0309-8249
VL - 36
SP - x-156
JO - Journal of Philosophy of Education
JF - Journal of Philosophy of Education
IS - 2
ER -