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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN SPORT: An Ethnographic Study of Character Development in an Elite Prep-School Basketball Program
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The development of individual and team character was investigated through an ethnographic study of an elite prep-school basketball team. Data were collected over a five-month period using diverse methods, including participant observations, interviews, video recordings, and audio recordings. Content analysis of the data identified emerging themes and categories surrounding the topic of character development in a competitive performance context. Thirteen emerging themes are presented and discu...
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The Future of Character Education.
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ADMINISTRATORS' PERCEPTIONS OF CHARACTER EDUCATION.(Statistical Data Included)
Education
; Introduction For centuries educators have talked about the role of education in teaching values. The term character education has also been discussed for years and has been defined as a planned, comprehensive, and systematic approach for teaching self-respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, and
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In the Name of Morality: Character Education and Political Control (Adolescent Cultures, School & Society, Vol.26) (2004)
Journal of Research in Character Education
; In the Name of Morality: Character Education and Political Control (Adolescent Cultures, School & Society, Vol.26) (2004). By T. Yu. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. For those of us who are deeply engaged in the field of character development, Tianlong Yu's book will seem at first glance a
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The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
; When I read The value of character education (Ideas, Feb. 11) I was both pleased and dismayed. I was pleased because I was excited to see growing concern about children's character development. Children are the future of our society and good character promotes civility. As the article stated,
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Developing a comprehensive approach to character education in the social studies. (Introduction).(Brief Article)
The Social Studies
; Virtue of character is a result of habituation. From this it is clear that none of the virtues of character arises in us by nature. For nothing natural can be made to behave differently by habituationAristotle, Nicomachean Ethics To possess virtue does not signify to have cultivated a few namable
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