The School of Education is co-sponsoring a lecture by Mark Pike, Ph.D., Head of the School of Education at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Pike’s research interests include character education, C.S. Lewis as an educator, Christian education, reading and response to literature, and values and virtues in schooling and society. He is the principal investigator of a large research grant on Narnian Virtues Character Education, about which he will speak.
Hosted in collaboration with the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, the lecture titled “Narnian Virtues Character Education,” will be Tuesday, April 4, at 4 p.m. in the Cox Lecture Hall of Armstrong Browning Library. Pike will also discuss his recent book, C.S. Lewis as Teacher for our Time.
Pike said his Narnian Character project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, “investigates how young people can learn the virtues of wisdom, love, justice, integrity, self-control and fortitude as they read and respond to three of the Narnia novels by C.S. Lewis.”
The project is focused on 11-14 year olds, along with their parents, teachers and school leaders.
Attendees at the lecture will be invited to participate in the project’s international trial, with curriculum materials available.
Please register to attend. (Suggested, but not required.)
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