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
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