The Jubilee Centre Framework for Character Education in Schools - 3rd edition

'The aim of our studies is not to know
what virtue is, but to become good.'
                                              
                                                 Aristotle

"WHAT CHARACTER EDUCATION IS

Character is a set of personal traits or dispositions
that produce specific moral emotions,
inform motivation, and guide conduct.

Character education includes all explicit and
implicit educational activities that help
young people to develop positive personal
strengths called virtues." p.7.


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CHARACTER VIRTUES: Intellectual; Moral; Civic, and Performance Caring for and respecting others, as well as caring for and respecting oneself Positive psychology, mental health VIRTUE Literacy i-iii: ‘Perception’; (ii) Virtue ‘Knowledge and Understanding’; and (iii) Virtue ‘Reasoning’. - emotional literacy Improved attainment, better behaviour Direct teaching of character provides the rationale, language and tools to use in developing character elsewhere in and out of school. p.7. EMOTIONAL

Character is sought freely to pursue a better life. 'Success' in each domain ... Build - virtue literacy Character is educable: it is not fixed and the virtues can be developed. Its progress can be measured holistically, not only through self-reports but also more objective research methods. p.7. Character can be - Caught... ...through a positive school community, formational relationships, and a clear ethos. Taught... ...through the curriculum using teaching and learning strategies, activities, and resources. Sought... ...through chosen experiences that occur within and outside of the formal curriculum. p.12.

CONTAGION Belonging to, participating in - a school community Common good Role-modelling Flourishing societies [Address: Social Determinants of Health]* partnership with parents, families caring for and respecting others, as well as caring for and respecting oneself

Civic Citizens Committed leadership Increased employability, empowering, and liberating partnership teachers, employers, and other community organisations Each child has a right to character education

"Practical Wisdom (phronesis) is the integrative virtue,
developed through experience and critical reflection, which
enables us to perceive, know, desire and act with good sense.
This includes discerning, deliberative action in situations
where virtues collide." p.9.

University of Birmingham 2013, 2017, 2022
ISBN: 9780704429789
https://www.jubileecentre.ac.uk/527/character-education/framework

Some thoughts to follow.

Africa Re-Imagined

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Dipo Faloyin Africa Is Not A Country Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa	Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata IT’S A CONTINENT
Socio-Economic and Cultural progress ...	Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Against Decolonisation Taking African Agency Seriously

Owolade, T. (2022) Africa reimagined, FT Weekend, Books Life&Arts, 23-24 July, p.8.

Image 'IT'S A CONTINENT'

https://www.waterstones.com/book/its-a-continent/astrid-madimba/chinny-ukata/9781529376784

The dimensions and directions of self-care

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Mental capacity Personal autonomy My choice Subjective (lived-) experience Quality of (my) life Mood - mental state (assessment) Psychic pain - trauma Expectations - 'desired outcome' Can't keep a job "If it's all in my head - that's what one of the doctors said - I said, if it's an imaginary pain, how is the swelling there?" Nick	Physical pain - cause not identified Injury - trauma: history - playing football Goalpost collision - snapped - posterior cruciate ligament 28 years ago On feet leg swells Leg amputation 'best' option Twelve operations to date - Still in constant pain Clinical experience specialists, advice Guidance Evidence base Aggregated outcomes
Brown Housebound for days Feels guilty - holding family back Living pain-free ... would be a "New lease of life" Experience & expectations of family, friends .. Holiday, spoke to a veteran four years ago ..	Fundraising Mental Capacity Act Medical accountability Professional opinion - general outcomes NHS - "no" - 'Cosmetic'? Pain management (clinics)? Private operation £18,000 'desired outcome'

Chappell, P. Injured man fundraises for own leg amputation, The Times, August 10, 2022, p.19.

https://thetimes.pressreader.com/article/282080575609624

Liminal spaces I & II c/o Nan Mulder

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'A Liminal Space II' 21×48 cm mezzotint 2022	'A Liminal Space I' 21.5×48 cm mezzotint 2022

Learning, starting a course of study at whatever stage in life is often likened to a 'journey'. The term liminality is applied to this experience, with its spiritual and transformative connotations, an education rite-of-passage; also specifically in reference to threshold concepts:

https://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~mflanaga/popupLiminality.html

Images with thanks to Nan Mulder:

https://www.nanmulder.com/

See also: 'periplus'.

My source: Printmaking Today Summer 2022, 31:122, p.7.
https://www.cellopress.co.uk/page/printmaking-today

(Thanks also to Cello Press - looking f/w to 2023 issues.) 

 

Shining a light on Dark Patterns

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PERSONAL DATA^	PERSONAL DATA DATA, DESIGN BIOMETRICS^ PERSONAL DATA  DARK   PATTERNS
PERSONAL DATA*	CONTROL TECH GIANTS TRANSPARENCY LAW CONSUMER PROTECTION ...

*And the data of family members.
^Data that is specific to an individual, organic, can include fingerprint, facial images, DNA, behaviours (including keyboard use, online).

Prompt: Mention of 'dark patterns' on BBC World Service promoting their tech coverage.

Previously: 'interface(s)'

"Suffering in Silence" c/o David Robertson

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Suffering in Silence, 2018. Woodcut, each 2000 x 910 mm. Installation: 2400 x 5500 x 5500 mm

"David Robertson’s immersive print installation explores the stigma around mental health and the difficulties men have in reaching out for help. Consisting of 25 life-sized men, the figure is a self-portrait but is representative of any man. Formed of tally marks, each mark representing an individual." ...
[my emphasis].

The Holburne Museum:
https://www.holburne.org/events/holburne-open-david-robertson/

Image: With thanks to David Robertson

David Robertson
www.davidrobertsonprintmaker.com
QEST Scholar
Instagram.com/multiple_of_one 

My source: Printmaking Today Summer 2022, 31:122, p.7.
https://www.cellopress.co.uk/page/printmaking-today

True (group) therapy for the masses ...

Draft thoughts ...

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MENTAL MAPS PSYCHO-THERAPIES	MAPS PHYSICAL-THERAPIES
SOCIAL THERAPY?	POLITICAL THERAPY?

SITUATED - META-COGNITION

'Social therapy' is very much a thing - an invaluable therapy and intervention for patients / clients and  option for the multidisciplinary team. In form it may differ from the social therapy, industrial therapy encountered in 1977, with occupational therapy. Today, can I suggest that it has been diminished? Even as (in the UK) we have social prescribing, and very welcome it is too.

I still wonder if social therapy has been tainted politically, by its proximity to community?

Back in the 80s ... 90s ... I remember the mini-bus arriving with day care patients, people who had attended for years. Dependency was often a fact of life, for them, their family, or the choices were stark. and I've seen hints of dependency again. Psychological therapies were not offered as readily back then, and lack of engagement would have been the gate-keeper then and for many patients now. Day care is much diminished now, if provided at all. As a response to dependency, stasis this may not be a 'bad' thing, but what replaced it? How and where did people move on to?

Community, the original home and origin of the forum, the market place, and town crier has been left by successive governments to market forces. Now the High Street footfall is a sepia-coloured snapshot. Passers-by now, can read 'for sale' signs, 'units to let', see shutters, litter, pigeons on their break from 'being' online. The Ubers and e-food delivery enterprises now clog the roads, previously trodden by the clogs themselves (I've been told you could here them outside).

I realise there is a continuum at work here (and as 'group' in h2cm suggests - it does its work). A crossroads, hamlet, village, town, community, neighbourhood - with the exact position of some terms - 'community'  (on the IND-GRP axis) for example, subject to debate. 

The post back in May, concerning an individual therapy - New book: "Talking with a Map"

- has me thinking about the GROUP related domains of SOCIOLOGY and POLITICAL. 

About therapy not individually, but a need to address the idea of therapy at the community level. You might call this a 'root and branch' review, and yes, this is the sentiment. 

It is clearly more than 'levelling up'.

Stepping outside of the boxes (outside of #h2cm - the clinical context ...); this isn't a person with an illness. Neither is it an effort to instantaneously medicalise society (that's another post). The community (UK*) is also not best placed to self-care, to prosper - which would be quite a feat if it were possible.

Back in June, I saw tweet about WHO and the need to strengthen primary care; and the global role for primary care was highlighted in the previous post. I can't find the tweet now, but I think it was a global health call, as so many nations are still developing, even creating primary care.

Here in the UK (USA?) - like the longevity stats - we appear to be going backwards. Therapy here is not going to improve access to primary care, or correct the dental desertification the UK NHS is experiencing.

If I am true to the model - #h2cm - here as displayed above, then there must be group therapy equivalents. Not group therapy in the usual - psychological / psychotherapy - sense, but a real transition from the individual to the group as found in social and political terms. Perhaps, this can be summed up as the need to revisit and re-negotiate the social contract - if it were ever agreed? This is were healthcare and time must coalesce: the past, present and future. Our health systems need to change.

I need to work on this muddle!

*If I may be so bold.

The model is encompassed within situated cognition - meta-cognition and the spiritual.

What does the health workforce need to improve vaccine delivery? c/o Nursing Now

Great question from David Bryden, @FHWCoalition at today's #ImmunisationAdvocacyChampions webinar: What would be your message to your MoH about what the health workforce needs to improve vaccine delivery?#VaccinEquity #COVID19 #Nurses2022 #Midwives2022 @sabinvaccine

— Nursing Now Challenge (@NursingNow2020) August 9, 2022

I have responded to this tweet with its question below - and added the event video:

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a generic conceptual framework pandemic preparedness and response individual acceptance individual health literacy beliefs unexpressed/non-shared anxiety active listening knowledge & expertise unique stories (person-alised) individual spiritual psychological access	routine immunisation all diseases, pathogens ... pandemic preparedness and response prevention logistics geography - terrain - distance vehicles technology - storage,energy,drones physical access impact of COVID-19 changes - data monitoring
pandemic preparedness and response family, community acceptance story-telling - narrative role models 'community temp' - what will others think, what will they say? More than posters & social media collective spiritual community engagement social access	informs - policy Health Services Nurses, Community Health Workers inequity, equality pandemic preparedness and response activism/advocacy by MoH and workforce funding - economics development counter / awareness of dis- misinformation political access ('real'* choice)

Hodges' model can assist in reflection and critical thinking about interfaces, campaigns, messages and much more.

*not just rhetoric.

Back to basics ...

The "Health Career - Care Domains - Model" created by Brian Hodges' provides:

• a 'springboard' for reflection and critical thinking;
  
• a generic conceptual framework for researchers;
• a model of care for clinicians;
• a generic model / conceptual framework for your local / global research initiative;
  
• and an individual & collective aide-mémoire.
  

Please see lower sidebar for a bibliography. 

peter.jones AT h2cm.info

Progress in Transdisciplinary Times

For about a decade I think ... hold on please! ...

Since October 2011 in fact, and an issue of -

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 17, Issue 5

Special Issue: Philosophy of Evidence Based Medicine

- I've carried the concept of 'progress' in my head. I think I picked up this issue somewhere and still have some of its key papers. 

 

Progress is always there in the media, in its obvious forms, technical, education, scientific, social, political, economic, medical; whether or not we agree on the pace, realisation, ethics, extent and contribution to overall well-being. Now, we can also add Earth as the foundational element.

Simon Kuper's 'Opening Shot' in the FT Magazine, 11-12 December 2021 wrote about 'progress' and Thomas Midgley Jr; "often described as the most disastrous peaceable human who ever lived." Responsible for the progressive, at the time, innovations of lead in petrol (to reduce "knocking" in petrol engines), and chlorofluorocarbons - you'll understand that one I think. Kuper notes how:

"Midgley's story illustrates the damage that one brilliant, ambitious, out-of-the-box thinker can do."

Since the early 20th century, we have nuclear fission, biolabs, genetic technology, artificial intelligence, climate change and other 'inventions'. The 'progress' of climate change is catching up with us. Ironic, how the question, after all those millennia remains - can I/We outrun this threat? The problems we face now, we are told, call for transdisciplinary solutions - adding yet more complexity.

Clearly, we need to equip people with the cognitive, conceptual tools to work alternately, in-and-out of the boxes. And, whatever our belief system consider progress in spiritual terms too.

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progress	progress
progress	PROGRESS

Another thing to return to!

Simon Kuper, Opening Shot, When too much progress is a bad thing. FT Weekend, Magazine, December 11-12, 2021, p.8.

Previously on W2tQ: progress