Research Projects

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Below is a list of the research projects and the accompanying reports that have been composed by the Learning for Life Team

Projects

The Formation of Virtues and Dispositions in 16-19 Year Olds’
The overall aims of the study were first to understand how 16-19 year old students understood the concepts of virtues and values and what they perceived to be the main in...
Teachers and Character Education
The aim of this research was to explore student teacher's attitudes towards character education and their experience of values and character education on their courses an...
The Values and Character Dispositions of 14-16 Year Olds in the Hodge Hill Constituency
Citizens of Character explores the attitudes, dispositions, and values of 14-16 year old students in a particular urban environment - the six schools of the Hodge Hill co...
Values and Character: Higher Education and Graduate Employment
Graduates of Character is the product of an empirical enquiry into the values, virtues, dispositions and attitudes of a sample of students and employees who volunteered t...
Consistency in Values: The Transition from Primary to Seconday School
Consistency in Values enquires into the nature of and changes in pupils' understanding of values in the transitional phase of school from primary to secondary education....
Developing Character and Values in the Early Years
Foundations of Character takes a deep and insightful look into character and values development during the 'early years' phase of education. It is commonly assumed that t...