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Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms (Coursera)

Positive psychology meets K-12 pedagogy. This course explores key ideas of positive psychology and shows how great teachers apply those lessons to maximize student engagement and accomplishment. Through lectures, discussions, interviews and footage of great educators in action, you’ll learn how to integrate character-based objectives into your own [...]

Positive Psychology: Character, Grit and Research Methods (Coursera)

Learners discover how apply to research methods to their study of Positive Psychology. In this course, we study with Dr. Angela Duckworth and Dr. Claire Robertson-Kraft. Through an exploration their work "True Grit" and interviews with researchers and practitioners, you develop a research hypothesis and learn how to understand [...]

Ethical Leadership: Character, Civility, and Community (edX)

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Ethical Leadership: Character, Civility, and Community (edX)
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This course explores theoretical and practical elements of ethical leadership with emphasis on leaders’ personal narratives within social historical contexts. Three specific areas of ethical leadership will be emphasized: morally-anchored character, transformative acts of civility, and a sense of [...]

What is Character? Virtue Ethics in Education (FutureLearn)

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What is Character? Virtue Ethics in Education (FutureLearn)
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Explore important questions about character education and how it contributes to individual and societal flourishing. Character education is increasingly being talked about by politicians, employers, teachers, parents and young people across the world. Can teaching virtues such as honesty, self-control, fairness, resilience and respect - which contribute to good [...]
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Building Character through Youth Social Action (FutureLearn)

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Building Character through Youth Social Action (FutureLearn)
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Learn about the history of social action, and how youth social action can help build character in young people. Youth social action – activities young people do to help others and the environment – is becoming increasingly recognised as a way to improve communities and develop young people’s characters. [...]