Rethinking Resilience in Character Education - Insights From Literature and Philosophy

This timely volume offers a nuanced reassessment and understanding of resilience through the lens of virtue ethics and character education, presenting practical strategies for the use of narratives to implement a virtue-ethical approach to resilience in classrooms.

List of contents

Introduction
Part 1: Resilience and Virtue Ethics
Chapter 1: Re-valuing resilience: a virtue ethical approach
Chapter 2: Beyond psychological resilience: a moral approach
Part 2: Resilience and Vulnerability
Chapter 3: When resilience falls short: lessons from Cicero's hardships for today's students
Chapter 4: The birth of a classic out of the spirit of failure: Max Weber's case
Chapter 5: Enhancing students' media resilience through literature education: an educational design based on work and authorship of A.F.Th. van der Heijden
Part 3. Resilience and Other Virtues
Chapter 6: Socratic resilience, Platonic poetics, and character education
Chapter 7: Education and role models of political resilience in Tacitus' Life of Agricola
Chapter 8: The City of God and the Augustinian concept of 'peregrinus'
Chapter 9: Virtues as the building blocks of resilience: Christine de Pizan's educational project in The Book of the City of Ladies
Chapter 10: Lessons from Montaigne for character development in higher education
Concluding reflections: a way forward for resilience in character education

About the author

Emma Cohen de Lara is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Amsterdam University College, Netherlands; Research Fellow at VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Senior Research Fellow at the Civic Humanism Center for Character and Professional Ethics, University of Navarra, Spain.
Tessa Leesen is Associate Professor of History at University College Tilburg and the Tilburg Center of the Learning Sciences of Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Product details

• Authors: Emma (Amsterdam University College Cohen De Lara
• Assisted by: Emma Cohen de Lara (Editor), Tessa Leesen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032853734
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285373-4
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Research in Character and Virtue Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Arts in Education, Psychotherapy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, Ethics and moral philosophy, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Moral & social purpose of education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher