SETTING THE STAGE: THE CASE

FOR CHARACTER EDUCATION

• Definition of Terms
• Goals Education
• Components of Character
• Factors that Influence Character
• General Types of Character
• The Six Pillars of Good Character
Why Character
Education
What’s the big
deal?
1. Define character/education;
2. Illustrate the different components,
types, and six pillars of character;
3. Consider the factors that influence a
person’s ability to live an ethical and
moral life; and
4. Demonstrate how character education
has influenced people’s moral lives.
A nation, as a society, forms a
moral person, and every
member of it is personally
responsible for his society.
Thomas Jefferson
What is Character
• Greek
• Kharakter
• A stamping tool
• Distinctive mark
• A description, especially of a person’s
qualities, giving rise to “distinguishing
qualities.
• To sharpen or engrave.
KHARACTER:
- To MARK as on an ENGRAVING.
- Character – Indelible Mark
• Capacity for self-discipline and empathy.
• Sum of an individual’s qualities and
characteristics which differentiate him or her
from others.
• Amalgamation of qualities.
• Inward values that determine outward actions.
• Moral compass
What is Formation
• Root word
• Form
• Act
• Process
• of forming; or
• development
ETYMOLOGICAL MEANING
• The word Education is derived from Latin word
educere, educare, and educatum which means
“to learn”, “to know” and “to lead out ”.
• That is education means to lead out internal
hidden talent of a child or person.
ETYMOLOGICAL TERMS-MEANING
1. Educare literally means “to bring up, to
nourish.”
2. Educere simply means “to lead out or to draw
out.”
3. Educatum refers to “the act of teaching or
training.”
What is Character
Education?
A learning process that enables students and adults in a
school community to understand, care about and act on
core ethical values such as respect, justice, civic virtue and
citizenship, and responsibility for self and others. Upon
such core values, we form the attitudes and actions that are
the hallmark of safe, healthy and informed communities
that serve as the foundation of our society.
What is Character
Education?
It teaches the habits of thought and
deed that help people live and work
together as families, friends, neighbors,
communities and nations.
Character Education is
Our Shared
Responsibility.
1. To foster intelligence;
and
2. To encourage positive
behaviour.
• Building Blocks of Character
• Foundation
• Talents;
• Skills;
• Character Traits; and
• Flaws.
INTELLECT Intelligence, Analyzing, Learning
Ego, Physical Strength, and
BODY Networking
Creativity, Visual Appearance and
OUTPUT Ideas

Money, Management and Sex Drive

WEALTH
Career, Influence and Authority
POWER
COMPONENTS OF GOOD CHARACTER
Within the character of the
citizen lies the welfare of
the nation.
Cicero
 What are the Factors that
Influence Our Character
• A Good character consists of:
✓ knowing good things;
✓ wanting good things; and
✓ doing good things - habits on the way of
thinking, habits in the heart, and habits in
action.
• These three things are very necessary to improve
moral life; all three forms of moral maturity.
1. PARENTAL INFLUENCE
• It is the most important factors responsible for
personality development.
• The way parents behave with the child, how
much he is allowed to socialize, the kind of
culture he is subjected to by them, and the
emotional make up of his parents, all these have a
great bearing on the child’s mental growth.
2. HOME ENVIRONMENT
• Home as a cradle of human character and personality largely contribute to the
character formation of a child.
• It is said that the parents are the first educators of the children.
• It is their parental guidance and discipline that creates the kind of character,
personality and attitude the child has.
• Parents should make sure that the child incorporates the positive emotions in
his personality and stays away from negative ones.
• A child needs both of his parents, to develop his personality.
• An absentee father can be a negative influence on the child.
• To make the child confident, positive person, parents should avoid being to
authoritative, trying to discipline excessively, criticizing the child, discouraging
him, comparing him with others.
3. SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
• Once a child starts going to school, he learns how to interact and
deal with his peers.
• He comes to know how to engage in “playing” according to the
rules and regulations.
• He gets educated, learns how to read, write and communicate
effectively.
• A child’s personality is greatly influence by the way he is treated at
the school, both by his teachers as well as his peers.
• The school reinforce education that the child needs that home fails
to provide.
4. CULTURE
• Sociologists found out that different cultures have different
values and a child grows up with them, sub-consciously
absorbing the same.
• Influence of culture in personality and social development
cannot be ignored.
• Those who were born and grown up in western countries are
influenced to be individualistic and competitive, while those
children brought up in Asian, African and South American
countries are taught to be cooperative.
1. POSITIVE/GOOD CHARACTER/TRAIT
These are attributes such integrity, honesty, courage,
loyalty, fortitude and other important values that
promote good behaviour and habits.

2. NEGATIVE/BAD CHARACTER/TRAIT
A person’s predisposition to commit evil acts.
1. TRUSTWORTHINESS
The pillar of good character that is considered
as he most complicated of the six core ethical
values and concerns a variety of qualities like
honesty, integrity reliability, and loyalty.
a. Honesty
Five Dimensions of Honesty
i. Truthfulness – presenting the facts to the
best of our knowledge.
ii. Sincerity – one must observe genuineness
being without trickery or duplicity for it
precludes all acts, including half-truths.
a. Honesty
iii. Candor – in relationships involving
legitimate
iv. Integrity – persons of integrity are those
who acts according to his beliefs, not
according to expediency. He is also
consistent.
b. Loyalty
• To be trusted one must be loyal to his or her husband
or wife, friends, employer, employee organization,
citizen and country.
• Our relationships with other people create an
expectation of allegiance, fidelity and devotion.
• Hence, loyalty is a responsibility that each one should
develop and maintain to promote the interests of
certain people, organizations and affiliations.
2. Respect
• Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule
• Be tolerant and accepting of differences
• Use good manners, not bad language
• Be considerate of the feelings of others
• Don’t threaten, hit or hurt anyone
• Deal peacefully with anger, insults, and
disagreements
3. Responsibility
Being responsible means to take charge and be
accountable of the consequences of what we think
and do.
Qualities of a Responsible Person
a. Sense of Accountability
b. Pursuit of Excellence
c. Self-Reliant
4. Fairness
It implies adherence to a balanced standard
of justice without relevance to one’s own
feelings or inclinations.
5. Caring
• The heart of ethics, and ethical decision-
making.
• It is scarcely possible to be truly ethical and
yet unconcerned with the welfare of
others.
6. Citizenship
• The good citizen knows the laws and obeys
them.
• He volunteers and stays informed on the
issued of the day, the better to execute his
duties and privileges as a member of a self-
governing democratic society.