The Jubilee Centre helped organise and co-host the second European Character Virtues Association (ECVA) conference on the 26-28th June. The conference was held at the European University of Rome in partnership with the Aretai Centre. Over 100 delegates from across Europe and beyond attended the conference to discuss how character education research and practice might be enhanced across the continent.
Prof Kristjan Kristjansson and Dr Shane McLoughlin gave the opening keynote address at the conference on 26th June. They presented new data from their six-study investigation into the structure and measurement of phronesis and its relationship with flourishing. On Thursday June 27th, Liz Gulliford shared her presentation ‘Assumptions of a Neo-Aristotelian Approach to Character Education’. It aimed to examine some of the assumptions about character that an Aristotelian approach inevitably imports into character education, and to question whether these assumptions should be acknowledged and challenged in the interests of developing a more inclusive approach to character education.
See the full ECVA 2024 conference programme here.
