Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Ubbiali, Marco; Mortari, Luigina

Titolo:

The “MelArete” Project: Educating children to the Ethics of Virtue and of Care

Anno:

2017

Tipologia prodotto:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Lingua:

Inglese

Formato:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Nome rivista:

European Journal of Educational Research

ISSN Rivista:

2165-8714

N° Volume:

6

Numero o Fascicolo:

3

Intervallo pagine:

269-278

Parole chiave:

Ethical education, Ethics of Virtue, Ethics of Care, Ricoeur

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

Our educational approach proposes an original interpretation of ethical education: a form of Education to the Ethics of Virtues according to the Philosophy of Care. We suggest an educational project trying to answer this core question: “How can we orient the person to pay attention to virtues, and reflect about the value they can assume in order to realize a good quality of life?”. The philosophical approach from which we started connects the ethical perspective of Ricoeur (2007), to the ones of Plato and Aristotle. Ricoeur distinguishes ethics and morality: in his reflection ethics has a teleological perspective, while moral has a deontological one. In Plato/Socrates (Alcibiades I) ethics is an educational action that allows the others to thrive in their own existential capabilities, and in Aristotle’s (Nicomachean Ethics) ethics searches for eudaimonia, a good quality of life. In our educational project with children, the methods to answer this question are: conversations: (promoting intersubjective thought), narratives (reading and writing stories about virtues), and action (promoting a reflecting cultivation of virtues in everyday life). In this paper we present the theoretical background

Pagina Web:

http://www.eu-jer.com/EU-JER_6_3_269_Mortari_etal.pdf

Id prodotto:

100412

Handle IRIS:

11562/972745

ultima modifica:

26 ottobre 2022

Citazione bibliografica:

Ubbiali, Marco; Mortari, Luigina, The “MelArete” Project: Educating children to the Ethics of Virtue and of Care «European Journal of Educational Research» , vol. 6 , n. 3 , 2017 , pp. 269-278

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