The curriculum model which has been adopted in designing this course and its set of resources is inspired by Brunner’s Spiral Curriculum. The spiral curriculum model moves students through phases of personal experience and practice, information gathering and documentation, reflection, analysis and internalisation and informed action, and round again, as if moving up a spiral. This enables students to look at previous learning and experience in a new light, and look at new learning from the perspective of previous experience. Growth in knowledge, judgement and practice is the purpose of such an approach. It is an experiential curriculum model, with its accents on personal engagement, ideas, reflection, refinement, and internalisation, or habituation. We have produced a syllabus of 31 resources designed to help young people explore and develop their character.
The Teacher’s Guide is available at the link below:
Life Trajectories
Aims: What is it that really makes life worth living? And how will I know if I am living it? How can I live more thoughtfully?
Number of Sessions: 2
Life Trajectories
Aims: What is it that really makes life worth living? And how will I know if I am living it? How can I live more thoughtfully?
Number of Sessions: 5
How to handle our emotions
Aims: How can I learn about the good life from my emotions?
Number of Sessions: 5
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: How can I learn about the good life from my emotions?
Number of Sessions: 5
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: How can I overcome and challenge my fears; how can I rein in my overconfidence? How can I build my self-confidence?
Number of Sessions: 5
How to stand up to others
Aims: How can I overcome and challenge my fears; how can I reign in my overconfidence? How can I build my self-confidence?
Number of Sessions: 5
How to handle our fears, pressures & anxieties
Aims: How can I manage the stresses and strains of life? How can I turn them to my advantage, without being overwhelmed by them?
Number of Sessions: 5
How to cope with adversity
Aims: How can I manage the stresses and strains of life? How can I turn them to my advantage, without being overwhelmed by them?
Number of Sessions: 5
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: How can I educate my desire to take pleasure in all of life’s good things? How can I live with greater gentleness
Number of Sessions: 4
How to practice Self-Mastery
Aims: How can I educate my desire to take pleasure in all of life’s good things? How can I live with greater gentleness
Number of Sessions: 5
How to practice Self-Mastery
Aims: How can I educate my desire to take pleasure in all of life’s good things? How can I live with greater gentleness
Number of Sessions: 5
How to practice Stillness
Aims: How can I educate my desire to take pleasure in all of life’s good things? How can I live with greater gentleness
Number of Sessions: 3
How to practice Stillness
Aims: How can I educate my desire to take pleasure in all of life’s good things? How can I live with greater gentleness
Number of Sessions: 5
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: How can I use language and words to build trust, friendship and express kindness – without being untruthful or unfair?
Number of Sessions: 4
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: How can I use language and words to build trust, friendship and express kindness – without being untruthful or unfair?
Number of Sessions: 4
How to build good relations with words
Aims: How can I use language and words to build trust, friendship and express kindness – without being untruthful or unfair?
Number of Sessions: 5
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: How can I use language and words to build trust, friendship and express kindness – without being untruthful or unfair?
Number of Sessions: 4
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: How can I use language and words to build trust, friendship and express kindness – without being untruthful or unfair?
Number of Sessions: 4
How technology amplifies virtue – and vice
Aims: How can I use technology to promote the good, rather than to undermine my character, or social relations?
Number of Sessions: 5
How to Practice compassion
Aims: How can I help others in need of my help?
Number of Sessions: 2
How to support those in distress; how to be supported when in distress
Aims: What resources can I build and what networks will help me to stay on top, when life starts to get too much?
Number of Sessions: 5
How to support and build healthy minds
Aims: What resources can I build and what networks will help me to stay on top, when life starts to get too much?
Number of Sessions: 5
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: What do we owe to others? How do we know if they deserve it? What is owed to us? And do we really deserve it?
Number of Sessions: 2
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: What do we owe to others? How do we know if they deserve it? What is owed to us? And do we really deserve it?
Number of Sessions: 4
The Structure of the Virtue
Aims: What do we owe to others? How do we know if they deserve it? What is owed to us? And do we really deserve it?
Number of Sessions: 3
How not to exploit or be exploited
Aims: How can I best prepare to build the ethical workplace, once I leave school?
Number of Sessions: 5
How to tackle vices of corruption
Aims: How can I best prepare to build the ethical workplace, once I leave school?
Number of Sessions: 5
How to specialise in the virtues demanded by your job.
Aims: How can I best prepare to build the ethical workplace, once I leave school?
Number of Sessions: 3
How to ensure a fairer deal for the world’s poor.
Aims: How can I live more thoughtfully towards those far less materially fortunate than me? And how can I behave
Number of Sessions: 5
How virtue could re-balance the natural world
Aims: How can I live more thoughtfully towards those far less materially fortunate than me? And how can I behave
Number of Sessions: 5