ABSTRACT

This article offers a response to some recent critiques of character education in a UK context, in general, and the approach promoted by the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, in particular. The article argues that critiques of current UK character education betray an inadequate grasp of significant factions within its group of advocates, and that there is reason to question the suggested idea of a single policy network. More specifically, claims that the Jubilee Centre’s conception of character is neoliberal, conservative, individualist and religiously tethered are rebutted. At a more abstract level, the critics are shown to misrepresent the underlying philosophy of the Centre’s character conception: neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics.

摘要

本文提供了对英国背景下最近对品格教育的一些批评的回应，尤其是由 Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues 推广的方法。这篇文章认为，对当前英国品格教育的批评暴露出对其倡导者群体中重要派系的理解不够充分，并且有理由质疑所建议的单一政策网络的想法。更具体地说，关于禧年中心的性格概念是新自由主义、保守主义、个人主义和宗教束缚的说法遭到反驳。在更抽象的层面上，批评者被证明歪曲了中心人物概念的基本哲学：新亚里士多德美德伦理。