Reinventing character education: the potential for participatory character education using MacIntyre’s ethics

Character Education in the UK is often considered controversial through its perceived neoliberal individualizing of character, disregarding of young people’s moral agency, and blindness to the effect of social structures. This article presents an alternative framework for character educators, focussed on the biographical narratives of the students and the practice of teaching. It draws on the work of MacIntyre as a philosophical basis for a...