The research investigated the factors that influence how young people from all backgrounds understand “purpose” and living a “good life”.
Undertaken by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues at the University of Birmingham – which has led much of the research into character education – the project involved 3,250 young people, including students in non-mainstream settings such as pupil referral units and youth offender institutions.
It found that 27.4 per cent of the non-mainstream pupils responded positively to statements regarding their life’s purpose, compared with 24.2 per cent of pupils in mainstream settings.
As such, the report – Flourishing from the Margins – argues that “marginalisation” in education does not necessarily have a negative effect on how pupils understand their purpose in life.
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