On 28th – 30th July 2016 the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues was delighted to host CitizED’s 12th International Conference at the University of Birmingham. Exploring the theme, ‘Citizenship and Character: Clarifying Characterisations and Exploring Collaboration’, the conference aimed to enhance understanding about the relationships between citizenship education and character education. Centre Director, Prof. James Arthur, gave a keynote speech at the conference, titled 'Citizenship, Character and the Emotion Friendly Zeitgeist'. With prestigious key note speakers, and delegates from all over the world delivering a range of seminar sessions across the three days, the conference highlighted significant academic work in the field and shed light on high quality professional practice that is happening globally.
The conference programme, including abstracts of seminar papers, can be downloaded here.