{"id":2109,"date":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/an-end-to-the-exam-factory-process\/"},"modified":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"an-end-to-the-exam-factory-process-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2014\/01\/12\/an-end-to-the-exam-factory-process-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An End to the Exam Factory Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An application of Virtue ethics to education, and through this, an understanding that UK education should be about the flourishing and development of character over and above the passing of exams  <\/p>\n<p>The use of Nigel Tubbs and Thomas Arnold to support my thesis <\/p>\n<p>My objective of this essay:<br \/>\n\u2022 Through the study of Anthony Seldon\u2019s eight aptitudes, Aristotle\u2019s Virtue ethics, and interviews of teachers in UK education, I wish to grasp an understanding of how virtue should be practised within education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation in schools, and indeed universities, has become more formulaic as the tyranny of exams has been allowed to become overly dominant.\u201d  Anthony Seldon <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI judge that the task of the school in the moral development of the child can and should be of greatest importance.\u201d \u00c9mile Durkheim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Lankester, 2014, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,22,128],"tags":[622,215,216],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-201","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-educaton","tag-seldon","tag-virtue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}