Educating For Character
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Educating for character. Frank is disillusioned with his life. Need help on characters in willy russell s educating rita. He drinks heavily does not care about teaching has trouble with relationships and excoriates his own failed attempts at being a poet.
Educating rita character list. A middle aged middle class professor and former poet who tutors rita. Educating essex was commissioned by channel 4 s commissioning editor for documentaries mark raphael after the channel pledged an extra 6 7 million to documentary programming in 2011.
From the creators of sparknotes. Educating rita takes cues from george bernard shaw s play pygmalion in pygmalion a self assured professor decides to test his abilities by educating a working class woman although this woman has no formal education she like rita is witty and naturally intelligent. Pdf character education on college campuses is becoming more important.
About educating for character. A the main thread of the play entwines itself round the constantly developing relationship between rita and frank. Check out our detailed character descriptions.
Thomas lickona is a developmental psychologist and professor of education emeritus at the state university of new york at cortland where he directs the center for the fourth and fifth rs respect and responsibility. It is similar to other fly on the wall series broadcast by channel 4 such as one born every minute 24 hours in a e the hotel and the family the last of which both director david clews and series producer. Frank is a university tutor who despite his relationship with rita becomes increasingly cynical and.
Educating rita is also loosely related to greek mythology since pygmalion itself borrowed from ovid s metamorphoses in. Read 16 reviews from the world s largest community for readers. A past president of the association for moral education he serves on the board of directors of the character education partnership and speaks around the world to teachers.
Rita is a fresh young but illiterate woman who develops into a wise person steering her way in life with confidence. Calls for renewed moral education in america s schools offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect responsibility hard work and other values that should not be left to parents to teach. Search and read educating character through stories opinions or describe your own experience.
