Research groups

The research group “MelArete – virtue ethics” is aimed at designing and conducting educative researches on ethical, spiritual and political education, creating and evaluating educative paths useful for schools (“service research”). These researches are particularly devoted to enhance ethical education for children attending kindergarten and primary and secondary schools. Ethics is intended as a personal and communitarian research for the good, getting able every person to bloom in his/her existential qualities, with and for the others. Ethical education, nowadays more and more necessary, is framed in the spiritual education vision, intended as the need for people to look for the meaning of life, building together a sympathetic community (political education). The research group “MelArete – virtue ethics” intends to put ethical education at the hearth of the school life, working together with teachers and for them, supporting their educational competences. Our vision of ethical education is aimed at improving the disposition to the good (virtues, according to Aristotle’s position) that is possible to be taught thanks to a critical reflectivity (through good school instruments). The name ‘MelArete’ attests this idea: educative care (melete) and virtue ethics (arete).