Moral Emotions and Human Interdependence in Character Education

Taylor & Francis

Moral Emotions and Human Interdependence in Character EducationBeyond the One-Dimensional Self\nAuthor(s): Agnieszka Bates\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367503314, 978-0367503314\nSynopsis\nMoral Emotions and Human Interdependence in Character Education challenges contemporary mainstream approaches to character education predicated on individualism, essential virtues and generic character skills. \n\nThis book synthesizes perspectives from phenomenology, psychology, cultural sociology and policy studies into a unique theoretical framework to reveal how ideas from positive psychology, emotional intelligence and Aristotelian virtues have found their way into the classroom. The idealized, self-reliant, resilient, atomized individual at the core of current character education is rejected as one-dimensional. Instead this book argues for an alternative, more complex pedagogy of interdependence that promotes student.