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View article: Finding consensus on well-being in education
Finding consensus on well-being in education Open
Research on well-being and concern over the well-being of students and teachers has grown dramatically in recent years. Researchers and reformers in positive psychology and education, self-determination theory, social and emotional learnin…
View article: Flourishing and integrative emotion regulation: an SDT perspective
Flourishing and integrative emotion regulation: an SDT perspective Open
This paper presents a Self-Determination Theory (SDT) perspective on the relationship between human flourishing and emotion regulation. It argues that SDT’s organismic approach to motivation, development, and wellness enables it to directl…
View article: The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education
The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education Open
What kind of education is needed for democracy? How can education respond to the challenges that current democracies face? This unprecedented Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most important ideas, issues, and thinkers within…
View article: Moral Character Education after COVID-19: An Interview
Moral Character Education after COVID-19: An Interview Open
This interview piece addresses the following questions: Does the COVID-19 pandemic offer any lessons for moral character education? Do the experiences of students, educators, and communities during the pandemic illustrate the importance of…
View article: Self-determination theory, morality, and education: introduction to special issue
Self-determination theory, morality, and education: introduction to special issue Open
Self-Determination Theory (SDT) is an empirically based organismic theory of human motivation, development, and well-being that shares many points of interest with the fields of moral development and moral education. Yet, SDT has been larg…
View article: Punishment and motivation in a just school community
Punishment and motivation in a just school community Open
This article addresses the ethical and motivational dimensions of punishment in schools, focusing on the idea of a just school community. Lawrence Kohlberg’s account of a just school community is examined and systematically revised to refl…
View article: Education in the Anthropocene: A Pragmatic Approach
Education in the Anthropocene: A Pragmatic Approach Open
Human beings have made a mess of things, both for themselves and for countless multitudes of other life forms that inhabit this planet.There are so many of us, inflicting so much damage on the planetary systems on which we depend, doing so…
View article: Why character education?
Why character education? Open
Character education in schools has been high on the UK political agenda for the last few years. The government has invested millions in grants to support character education projects and declared its intention to make Britain a global lead…
View article: Civil Society and the Priority of Educational Aims
Civil Society and the Priority of Educational Aims Open
s "Education for Civil Society" is a welcome response to the painful reality that, even as the U.S. and world face mounting problems, truth "as a regulative ideal (and reason with it) is being discarded, leaving no vehicle but violence for…
View article: Green’s Predicting Thirty-Five Years On
Green’s Predicting Thirty-Five Years On Open
Long before the current embrace of empirical methods by policy-minded philosophers of education, there was Tom Green, Cornell philosophy Ph.D. classmate of Harry Frankfurt and Ed Gettier, author of Predicting the Behavior of the Educationa…