Quality Circle Time in 'Moral development, an intelligent person's guide to ethics' by Mary Warnock
Thu, Jan 1st 1998
Moral Development Mary Warnock – ‘An Intelligent Person’s Guide To Ethics’ 1998 Duckbacks Publishing“A good school, then, will produce ambitious pupils who want to go on with what they have started. Whatever they do, they will want to do it well. ……… In ethical terms they will want to be good. Without this underlying private want, they cannot be relied upon to try for the ethically best in the public sphere. The morality that lies behind all efforts to improve things in the world at large, to defend human rights, to pass generally acceptable laws, to seek peace and justice, is essentially that of private standard setting, and of private ideals to be pursued. And this is why children from the earliest age, and in the most trivial and domestic and un-heroic contexts, must learn that, being human, they are subject to temptation, and being human, they can, if they want to, triumph.”Quality Circle Time’s Golden Rules, constantly reinforced through all the activities and structures, provided pupils with an internalised frame of reference against which to judge the ‘right’ thing to do, in the crunch moments of choice. Reward and sanction systems reinforce clearly for pupils the links between behaviours and outcomes.
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