Character education aims to help young people develop personal strengths called virtues through both explicit and implicit educational activities. Virtue ethics emphasizes that one's character and the virtues one embodies determine ethical behavior, and is focused on developing good character. Implicit activities refer to promoting virtues through a school's culture and ethos, while explicit activities include dedicated lessons on virtues, and the goal is for virtues to be both taught and learned from a school environment.

1. Character
Virtue Ethics in
Education
Tamia Loaiza

2. Character education
Different people take it to mean different
things., in the course they explain how
character education can be considered an
umbrella term for all explicit and implicit
educational activities that help young
people develop positive personal strengths
which might be called virtues.

3. Vitue Ethics
They emphasize the role of one's character
and the virtues that one's character
embodies for determining or evaluating
ethical behavior. Virtue ethics is one of the
three major approaches to normative
ethics, often contrasted
to deontology which emphasizes duty to
rules and consequentialism which derives
rightness or wrongness from the outcome of
the actions that we take and consider

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5. Implicit educational activities might be
those that result because of how an
educational learning space has been
set up – the values espoused by the
ethos and culture. In contrast an explicit
activity might be a lesson dedicated to
the virtues. In combination it might be
said that character virtues can be both
taught and caught

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