Character Education in the Digital Age Research

Big Question: Can the Professions be Virtuous?

Our research deepens understanding of the place of virtues and values in key professions. To date, the Jubilee Centre has undertaken research in the teaching, law, medicine, nursing, the police, business professions, and the British Army. The research explores the perceived and ideal character strengths of student and experienced professionals and their educators, as well as the levels of virtue-based reasoning applied by participants in response to moral dilemmas.

Recognising that professionals work within institutional, regulatory and disciplinary frameworks, the research explored how these restrict and/or allow space for individual agency.

A Cyber-Wisdom Approach to Digital Citizenship Education

This report presents and compares key findings from two surveys: a survey with 1,947 13 -to 16-year-olds in England, and a survey with 1,515 parents of 13- to 17-year-olds across the United Kingdom (UK). In doing so, it explores adolescents’ and parents’ views on, and practices at the intersection of, character, virtue and wisdom in the digital age.

Educating Cyber-Wisdom

Cyber-wisdom is defined in this report as the ability to do the right thing at the right time, when using online digital technologies. The task of educating cyber-wisdom in children and adolescence relies on joint efforts from multiple stakeholders, including parents, teachers, policymakers, and technology companies.

The Influence of Parents and the Media

The aim of this research project was to examine how social media use is related to young people’s experience and enactment of empathy and honesty, and their identification with moral values.