Artificial intelligence (AI) might be good for advocates of character education. For many readers, this will feel like a provocative claim. I am not suggesting that AI is necessarily good for character formation. On the contrary, it introduces a whole new set of ethical risks and poses new challenges for
Professor Tom Harrison and Rachael Bushby The Importance of Praxis We have learnt, from our time working in universities, that academics love a good debate. This is a vital aspect of the role: to challenge assumptions, ask difficult questions, debate concepts and language, and analyse competing philosophical and theoretical foundations. Such debates are prevalent in the field of character
This article is about practical wisdom, virtue, and the problem with modern advice about living well. We are often told to live by our values. Therapists ask clients to clarify them. Coaches invite people to align with them. Schools display them on walls. Organisations print them in strategic plans, often
As with many universities, the motto of the University of Birmingham is in Latin: per ardua ad alta. Adopted as part of the university’s original coat of arms 125 years ago, it remains in use today. While it can be translated in several ways, most commonly ‘through efforts to high
The Centre is now accepting proposals for its 15th annual conference, ‘Character and Vocation’. The multidisciplinary conference will take place between the 6th – 8th January 2027 at Oriel and Magdalen Colleges, University of Oxford. The broad aim of the conference is to discuss the concept of ‘vocation’, investigate the
Building on the Centre’s recent work on character and sport, and held in partnership with Birmingham City Football Club Foundation, the Jubilee Centre hosted a conference on Character-based Coaching in Sport at St. Andrew’s @Knighthead Park on 12th March 2026. Around 100 delegates from a range of settings and sports
Please see a below a list of the recent publications from the Jubilee Centre members from 2026. If you are looking for a 2025 publication, please click here. July 2026 Professor Kristján Kristjánsson, ‘Philosophy in Schools for Conceptual and Theoretical Understanding: Comments on Gatley’, Journal of Philosophy in Schools, 13
Before we can determine how to educate effectively in a rapidly changing world, we must first be clear about what it is that those of us working in universities are actually seeking to educate for. At a recent higher education conference on ‘Learning to be Human in the Age of
The Centre has launched the Educating Character Through Sport: Principles and Practices of a Virtues-Based Framework which sets out the place of character in sport and how character might be developed through sport. A central offering of the Framework is that intentional, planned, and positive character development through sport requires
The Global Character Alliance (GCA) was launched on the 8th January at the Jubilee Centre’s Annual Conference. Funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation and Templeton Religion Trust, the GCA is an international network dedicated to advancing character and values education through collaboration, research, and policy influence. The GCA will