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  • VIRTUES AND VIRTUE EDUCATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE
    CATHERINE A. DARNELL / ‎KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON
    Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and Practice explores questions about the locality versus the universality of virtues from a number of theoretical and practical perspectives. Written by leading international scholars in the field, it considers the relevance of these debates for the practice of virtue and character education. This volume brings together experts from educa...

    $1,160.00

  • FLOURISHING AS THE AIM OF EDUCATION
    KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON
    This book develops a conception of student flourishing as the overarching aim of education. Taking as its basis the Aristotelian concept of eudaimonia, it provides a theoretical study of the foundations of flourishing that goes well beyond Aristotle’s approach. Flourishing as the Aim of Education argues that the ‘good life’ of the student, to which education should contribute, ...

    $1,160.00

  • JUSTICE AND DESERT-BASED EMOTIONS
    KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON
    The clear message proposed in this book is that justice matters for morality and desert matters for justice - and that emotions matter for desert, justice and morality. Moreover, and no less importantly, justice education needs to take all those facts into consideration. Kristján Kristjánsson’s new book falls on the cutting edge of the latest developments in justice discour...

    $1,240.00

  • TEACHING CHARACTER AND VIRTUE IN SCHOOLS
    JAMES ARTHUR / KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON / TOM HARRISON / WOUTER SANDERSE / DANIEL WRIGHT
    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 mista...

    $1,420.00

  • ARISTOTLE, EMOTIONS, AND EDUCATION
    KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON
    What can Aristotle teach us that is relevant to contemporary moral and educational concerns? What can we learn from him about the nature of moral development, the justifiability and educability of emotions, the possibility of friendship between parents and their children, or the fundamental aims of teaching? The message of this book is that Aristotle has much to teach us about ...

    $1,480.00

  • ARISTOTELIAN CHARACTER EDUCATION
    KRISTJÁN KRISTJÁNSSON
    This book provides a reconstruction of Aristotelian character education, shedding new light on what moral character really is, and how it can be highlighted, measured, nurtured and taught in current schooling. Arguing that many recent approaches to character education understand character in exclusively amoral, instrumentalist terms, Kristjánsson proposes a coherent, plausible ...

    $1,420.00

  • JUSTIFYING EMOTIONS
    KRISTJAN KRISTJANSSON
    The two central emotions of pride and jealousy have long been held to have no role in moral judgements, and have been a source of controversy in both ethics and moral psychology. Kristjan Kristjansson challenges this common view and argues that emotions are central to moral excellence and that both pride and jealousy are indeed ingredients of a well-rounded virtuous life. ...

    $1,320.00