Understanding Character

Character Resources

(updated 31 May 2022)

The following consists of websites and books on character issues.

Use these resources to help your understanding about character.


Education

Character Counts – A nonprofit coalition of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations working to advance character education by teaching the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship

Character Education Partnership (CEP) – A nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue in our nation’s youth as one means of creating a more compassionate and responsible society

Character Education – List of university articles from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

Character Education Lessons – Low cost information for teachers and students

Character Traits

Character Trait Examples – YourDictionary.com

Character Traits List & Examples – TeacherVision.com

20 Good Character Traits Essential For Happiness

Moral Character – Wikipedia

Ethics

Josephson Institute of Ethics – Organization promoting character and ethics

A Guide to Business Ethics – From Womply.com

Integrity

Integrity – Wikipedia

The True Meaning of Integrity – Huffington Post (Aug 2016)

Books


Virtues

Honesty and Integrity

Courage and Bravery

Young people

Miscellaneous


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