CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND THE VIRTUOUS …

1 The Education Commission of the OCCB CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND THE VIRTUOUS LIFE: A POSITION PAPER Introduction For the past few years, the Ministry of Education through its Secretariat for Literacy and Numeracy has been promoting a province-wide initiative known as the CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT Initiative. In broad terms, this initiative seeks to integrate within publicly-funded education a more holistic approach to pedagogy which recognizes the importance of morality in the growth of children and teachers.

3 In the thirteenth century, Saint Thomas Aquinas adopted Augustine’s sevenfold structure in the second part of his Summa theologica.There, he defined virtue as a habitus, a dynamic way of being and acting that grounds freedom and …

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