“A 21st century education should prepare children for adult life by instilling the character traits and fundamental British values that will help them succeed.”
Educational Excellence Everywhere, Department for Education White Paper, March 2016.
Last month I completed my time with The Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues as their teacher-in-residence. During my time with them I co-led their Teaching Character Through Subjects project and in this capacity was fortunate enough to visit more than 30 schools in six months.
I learned many things, the greatest being that we all “do” character education. In fact character education really does have an impact on “educational excellence everywhere”. When it is planned and purposeful character education can make any school great. Even when simply implicit and in-built it can still do this, but then how do we know? How do we know it is enabling not disabling? Organised not chaotic? Uniting not dysfunctional?
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