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Author:   Emma Cohen de Lara (Amsterdam University College, Netherlands) ,  Tessa Leesen (University College Tilburg, Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.380kg
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9781032853734

ISBN 10:   1032853735
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   29 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Resilience and Virtue Ethics Chapter 1: Re-valuing resilience: a virtue ethical approach Chapter 2: Beyond psychological resilience: a moral approach Part 2: Resilience and Vulnerability Chapter 3: When resilience falls short: lessons from Cicero’s hardships for today’s students Chapter 4: The birth of a classic out of the spirit of failure: Max Weber’s case Chapter 5: Enhancing students’ media resilience through literature education: an educational design based on work and authorship of A.F.Th. van der Heijden Part 3. Resilience and Other Virtues Chapter 6: Socratic resilience, Platonic poetics, and character education Chapter 7: Education and role models of political resilience in Tacitus’ Life of Agricola Chapter 8: The City of God and the Augustinian concept of ‘peregrinus’ Chapter 9: Virtues as the building blocks of resilience: Christine de Pizan’s educational project in The Book of the City of Ladies Chapter 10: Lessons from Montaigne for character development in higher education Concluding reflections: a way forward for resilience in character education

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Emma Cohen de Lara is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Amsterdam University College, Netherlands; Research Fellow at VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Senior Research Fellow at the Civic Humanism Center for Character and Professional Ethics, University of Navarra, Spain. Tessa Leesen is Associate Professor of History at University College Tilburg and the Tilburg Center of the Learning Sciences of Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

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