module 2 beginning definitions: moral character and character education
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Module 2
Beginning Definitions:
Moral Character
and Character Education
What else is involved?
Crisis Intervention orEmergency Care
Crisis Intervention orEmergency Care
Deficit- or Problem-Centered PreventionDeficit- or Problem-Centered Prevention
Asset-Centered Protective Prevention
Inoculation
Asset-Centered Protective Prevention
Inoculation
To my knowledge, Dr. Peter L. Benson, founder of the Search Institute and author of All Kids are Our Kids, was the first to use the term “inoculation” in this context. The concept of “developmental assets” is the centerpiece for the Search Institute and its many community programs across the country.
Character education combines direct teaching and community building strategies to promote
personal and social integrity and the development of moral virtues, moral emotion, moral reasoning,
and other assets and qualities that make good character possible.
It promotes moral, social, artistic, intellectual, emotional, physical,
academic, and personality develop- ment through all of school life.
The moral component provides a context of principles for the
“non-moral” components: social, cultural, prudential, and civic.
Character EducationCharacter Education
The third definition comes from Robert Heslep at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Moral Education for Americans published by Praeger in 1995.
THINKINGBEHAVING
FEELINGKNOWING
Values Beliefs
Conscience
Predispositions & Prosocial
Attitudes
Will Empathy
Conscience Motivation
Social SkillsVirtues Habits
MORAL CHARACTER
Personal and Social Integrity
Moral Reasoning Ability
Intentional Moral Action &
Consequences
Moral EmotionMoral Knowledge
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40 Developmental Assets
The Search InstituteAsset Type
SUPPORT
EMPOWERMENT
BOUNDARIESAND
EXPECTATIONS
CONSTRUCTIVEUSE OF TIME
COMMITMENTTO LEARNING
POSITIVEVALUES
SOCIALCOMPETENCY
POSITIVE IDENTITY
1 Family Support 2 Positive Family Communication 3 Adult Relationships
7 Youth Valued 8 Useful Roles Youth
11 Family Boundaries 12 School Boundaries 13 Neighborhood Boundaries
17 Creative Activities
18 Youth Programs
21 Achievement
Motivation
22 School Engagement
26 Caring
27 Equality and Social
Justice
28 Integrity
32 Plan/Decision Making
33 Interpersonal
Competence
37 Personal Control
38 Self-Esteem
39 Sense of Purpose
These assets were extracted from All Kids Are Our Kids by Peter L. Benson, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. Dr. Benson is founder of the Search Institute.
Visit their website at www.search-institute.org. Their methodology and their identification of “developmental assets” is research-based.
4 Caring Neighborhood 5 Caring School 6 Parent Involvement in the School
9 Service to Others 10 Youth Feels Safe
14 Adult Role Models 15 Positive Peer Influence 16 High Expectations
19 Religious
Community
20 Time at home
23 Homework
24 Bonding to School
25 Pleasure Reading
29 Honesty
30 Responsibility
31 Restraint
34 Cultural Competence
35 Resistance Skills
36 Conflict Resolution
40 Positive View of
Personal Future