This inquiry examines the purpose of character education, suggesting new questions to guide schools indicating varying perspectives among educators.
The inaugural issue of the Journal of Character Education invited some of North America’s best-known character educators to speculate on the optimal direction for character education in the 21st century. To the extent that the direction schools take should devolve from what they hope to achieve, the invitation asked these educators to reflect on the purpose of character education. Their inaugural contributions showed little consensus. Based on the lack of this consensus and an informal survey of school administrators, a new look at purpose is encouraged, and a new question to discern purpose is proposed.
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