Introduction
Artworks are powerful and may convey messages of hope, optimism, hate, anger or despair. They are capable of communicating hateful messages just as effectively as non-offensive messages. In recent years we have seen the tide turn against the aestheticians who defend art as an … 
moral education
the intersection of teacher modelling and student emulation in moral education
Introduction
Modelling moral behaviour is an important moral educational method, particularly popular in neo-Aristotelian character education circles. However, for various reasons, students often do not recognise, admire or emulate teachers who model. At the same time, students may imitate and …
editorial: role models
Determining which people we should look to for personal guidance and what role they should play in shaping our lives is a perennial issue of moral and philosophical inquiry. Although our particular answers to these questions change in different historical, sociopolitical and educational contexts, …
education for peace and the selection of a literary canon for war remembrance
This contribution begins from the assumption that education for peace is a legitimate curriculum aim for schools. In England this possibility is not foregrounded in current school inspection frameworks, which emphasise 'personal development' aims of developing the character traits of resilience, …
the empty demand for solidarity
In his novel “The Age of the Fish,” first published in 1937, Ödön von Horváth describes how the students in a school class ally against their teacher and try to have him replaced. The trigger for this resistance by the students was a reprimand from the teacher that seemed unjust and unacceptable to …