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In and Beyond the Classroom: Educating for Courage

In and Beyond the Classroom: Educating for Courage. International Conference on Character Education Yogyakarta University Nov. 9, 2011 Bernice Lerner, Ed.D. How might we deliberately go about helping our students to develop good habits/make wise choices/internalize virtue?.

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In and Beyond the Classroom: Educating for Courage

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  1. In and Beyond the Classroom: Educating for Courage International Conference on Character Education Yogyakarta University Nov. 9, 2011 Bernice Lerner, Ed.D.

  2. How might we deliberately go about helping our students to develop good habits/make wise choices/internalize virtue? By means of four strategies 

  3. By raising awareness

  4. By inspiring understanding

  5. By encouraging positive action

  6. By fostering reflection

  7. Courage Ofr. Corage, curage - heart, spirit L. Cor - heart

  8. Courage • The attitude or response of facing and dealing with anything recognized as dangerous, difficult, or painful instead of withdrawing from it • Quality of being fearless or brave; valor • Mind; purpose; disposition; spirit; temper - Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, 1966.

  9. What is the emotion we feel when faced with a dangerous, difficult, or painful situation?

  10. What is fearful is not the same for every person .

  11. Things that are fearfuldiffer in magnitude and degree

  12. The emotion of fear overcomes us when we... • fear what we should not. • fear as we should not. • fear when we should not.

  13. “The [person]… who faces and who fears the right things, from the right motive, in the right way, and who feels confidence under the corresponding conditions, is brave…” -Aristotle

  14. The Coward • Lacks confidence • Displays excessive fear in difficult/painful situations

  15. The Rash Person • Is boastful, a pretender to courage. • Displays inappropriate fearlessness

  16. Guo You Bu Ji “The excess is as bad as the deficiency”

  17. “To see what is right and not do it, that is cowardice.” - Confucius

  18. The Brave Person • Is collected beforehand, and excited in the moment of action. • Is motivated by a sense of honour. • Will have fears, but will face them as he or she ought.

  19. “Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.” -Henri Frederic Amiel

  20. “Courage, as a virtue… presupposes some form of selflessness, altruism, or generosity.”- André Comte-Sponville

  21. Courage is... • the precondition of all other virtues • will at its most determined, and, in the face of danger or suffering, at its most necessary. • resistant to intellectualism - André Comte-Sponville

  22. Courage Look-Alikes vs. True Courage • The courage of the citizen-soldier who is not motivated by penalties or prizes, but by an internal sense of what is right. • The courage of the person who faces death with knowledge of the facts, i.e., that the odds are against him/her.

  23. The courage of the passionate person.

  24. The courage of the person who does not have time to prepare a response, who responds bravely to alarms. • The courage of the person who stands by his/her convictions, no matter the consequences.

  25. How does one become courageous? “… the virtues we get by first exercising them….we become brave by doing brave acts.” - Aristotle

  26. “The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.” - Corra May White Harris (1869-1935)

  27. “If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”- Beryl Markham, West With the Night

  28. Sophie Scholl and the White Rose The power of a life

  29. Sophie Scholl 1921-1943

  30. Inge, b. 1917 Hans, b. 1918 Elisabeth, b. 1920 Sophie, b. 1921 Werner, b. 1922 Robert and Magdalene Scholl

  31. Forchtenberg, Germany1921-1930

  32. Ulm, Germany 1930-1940

  33. State Work Duty, 1940-1942Krauchenwies camp

  34. Hans Scholl • Became disillusioned with The Hitler Youth • Intellectual • Soldier • Medical student • Founder of “The White Rose”

  35. Alexander Schmorell (Schurik) • In medical school to please his physician father • Artist & musician • Cherished his Russian ancestry (on mother’s side) • Lost his mother in infancy

  36. Christopher Probst • Soldier • Medical student • Married, 3 children • Came from a family of Bavarian scholars

  37. Willi Graf • Soldier • Medical student • Devout Catholic • Joined W.R. late • Got supplies • Traveled to recruit support

  38. Professor Kurt Huber • Popular professor of philosophy • Carefully concealed biting remarks against Hitler • Contributed to 5th leaflet • Drafted 6th leaflet

  39. Jurgen Wittenstein • Medical student • Introduced Alex and Hans • Survived. Now a retired doctor and professor living in Santa Barbara, CA

  40. The University of Munich

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