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Discovering Virtues with Children

An Experience for an Ethical Curriculum

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Changes in Teachers’ Moral Role

Part of the book series: Moral Development and Citizenship Education ((MORA,volume 6))

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Abstract

In ‘Does ethics have a chance in a world of consumers?’ Zygmunt Bauman (2008) wrote about intractable crises: ecological, financial, health and political. However at the root of these aspects there is an ethical crisis, which has been accelerated by cultural changes, which emptied out ethics visions, previously conceived as social architraves. This crisis obliges all of us to heed and challenge the present moral lag. Assuming that education plays a fundamental role in facing this crisis, it is urgent for educational research to search out meaningful ways for imparting a new vigour to ethics education.

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  1. University of Verona, Italy

    Luigina Mortari

  2. University of Verona, Italy

    Valentina Mazzoni

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  1. Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel

    Dorit Alt

  2. Achva College of Education, Israel

    Roni Reingold

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Mortari, L., Mazzoni, V. (2012). Discovering Virtues with Children. In: Alt, D., Reingold, R. (eds) Changes in Teachers’ Moral Role. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 6. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-837-7_9

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