Essays about: "MORAL VALUES and character"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words MORAL VALUES and character.

  1. 1. The Role of Literature in Character Education: On the Formation of the Modern 'Self' in Contemporary Liberal Schooling

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)

    Author : Svetlana Skripnik; [2022]
    Keywords : Character Education; literature; values; formation; Martha Nussbaum; capability approach; Allan Bloom; conservative theories; liberal theories; critical pedagogy; Post-Critical Pedagogy; civic virtue; citizenship; Love of the World.;

    Abstract : With the liberalisation of the society and education in the Western Countries, new development horizons have emerged thus altering our expectations from the younger generation and our vision of human fulfilment and happiness. As Dewey stressed, the current advance of technology and democratic ways of life results in the unprecedented rate and speed of changes and ‘it is impossible to foretell definitely just what civilization will be twenty years from now. READ MORE

  3. 2. President of Crimea. Constitution : Author(s) Autonomous Republic of Xena-Maria

    University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)

    Author : Mariia Kulykivska; [2020]
    Keywords : Maria Kulikovska; art in exile; exile; displacement; body; borders; art and borders; migration; sculpture; performative sculpture; performance; action; live performance; objects; art of Eastern Europe; architecture; feminism; crimean artist; ukrainian artist; swedish immigrant artist; political art; installation; manifestation; Louise Bourgeois; Joseph Beuys; degenerative artists; forbidden artists; female artist; Mariia Kulikovskaya; queer art; alien art; productive alienation; Masha Kulikovska; Masha Kulikovskaya; Мария Куликовская; Маша Куликовская; Марія Куликівська; Марія Куліковська; художник в изгнании; искусство в изгнании; искусство в иммиграции; восточно европейское искусство; запрещенное искусство; запрещенные художники; дегенеративное искусство; крымская художница; украинская художница; художница-переселенка; шведские художники-иммигранты; тело; границы; феминизм в искусстве; квир художник;

    Abstract : In this essay, two voices are heared, from two women: a certain artist Xena, who talks about her life and its dramas, interwoven with her own experiences from her diaries; and the voice of Maria, who analyzes Xena's life story and her art, diffracted through the prim of the history of 21stC art.  Art the outset, "President of Crimea. READ MORE

  4. 3. Other People’s Darkness : Difficult empathy and villains in two novels by Graham Greene

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Ulf Randau; [2020]
    Keywords : Adult education; cognitive literary criticism; crime thriller literature; EFL-classroom; empathy; Graham Greene; narratology; scaffolding;

    Abstract : The thesis aims to mesh narrative theory with theory of empathy in a study of two novels by Graham Greene, A Gun for Sale (1936) and Brighton Rock (1938), where the use of narrative building blocks from the crime thriller genre and the empathy that the characters may evoke are analysed. The second aim is to discuss how to implement the rather complex works of Graham Greene in the EFL classroom. READ MORE

  5. 4. Code & Conduct : A Study of Moral Values and Scoundrels in Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Henrik Eneroth; [2012]
    Keywords : morals; scoundrels; Jane Austen; Wickham; Willoughby; didactics;

    Abstract : Jane Austen provides moral guidance in her nocels, showing her readers what is wrong with her society. Novels such as Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility contain studies of human character and lack of morals. READ MORE

  6. 5. Why Human Virtues Obtain in the Natural World

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Jerker Karlsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Naturalism; Virtue-ethics; Weltanschauung; Language game; Aristotle; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : This essay aims to connect naturalism and virtue-ethics to a form of realism about values. The thesis advanced in the essay relies heavily on the Wittgensteinian concepts language-game and weltanschauung as explanatory tools for how values can be both real and unreal, both objective and subjective, both at the same time but not from the same perspective. READ MORE