Educating Character Through the Arts

<p>This volume investigates the role of the arts in character education. Bringing together insights from esteemed philosophers and educationalists it looks to the arts for insight into human character and explores the arts’ relationship to human flourishing and the development of the virtues.</p><p>Focusing on the moral value of art and considering questions of whether there can be educational value in imaginative and non-narrative art the nine chapters herein critically examine whether poetry music literature films television series videogames and even gardening may improve our understanding of human character sharpen our moral judgement inculcate or refine certain skills required for virtue or perhaps cultivate certain virtues (or vices) themselves.</p><p>Bringing together research on aesthetics ethics moral and character education this book will appeal to students researchers and academics of philosophy arts and education as well as philosophers of education morality aesthetics and teachers of the arts.</p>