The Journal of Character Education serves an audience of researchers, policy makers, teacher educators, and school practitioners concerned with the development of positive character in young people. The Character Education Partnership (CEP) defines character education as efforts to help young people develop good character, which includes knowing about, caring about, and acting upon core ethical values such as fairness, honesty, compassion, responsibility, and respect for self and others. The editors and the CEP view character education as a comprehensive and interdisciplinary term that...

Volume 11 Issue 2 2015 The Journal of Character Education is the only professional journal in education devoted to character education. It is designed to cover the field-from the latest research to applied best practices. We include original research reports, editorials and conceptual articles by the best minds in our field, reviews of latest books, ideas and examples of the integration with character education of socio emotional learning and other relevant strategies, and manuscripts by educators that describe best practices in teaching and learning related to character education. The...