What is it about?
The paper describes a research in Iceland where a classical literature (The Sagas) were used to teach students in lower secondary schools the use of moral vocabulary and the meaning of virtues and vices.
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The research described aimed at bringing character education to ordinary schools by helping ordinary teachers of language and literature (i.e. teachers that had no special training in philosophy) to engage the students in thinking about moral issues and develop deep understanding of moral vocabulary.
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The research was, in a way, an attempt to bring "the important issues" to school and find a place for them in the already overloaded schedule of the teachers. For this end, we worked closely with the teachers to develop the supporting material and we used literature that they were going to use anyway. So, what we tried to achieve was to change the way literature is taught but without bringing extra loads to the syllabus.
Ólafur Páll Jónsson
University of Iceland
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This page is a summary of: Young People, Old Literature and Character Education in Icelandic Schools, Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, September 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2019.1659407.
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