July 2025 - Mr Brown

Character education and basic psychological needs

30/07/2025 / Conferences / Basic psychological needs, Character education, Flourishing, Internalisation, Self-Determination Theory, Virtue ethics

Below you’ll find one of two abstracts submitted to the Jubilee Centre’s 2026 annual conference. You can find the other abstract here. Neither were accepted. In the abstract, I propose mapping the Jubilee Centre‘s three strategies of character “caught”, “taught”, and “sought” onto Self-Determination Theory’s (SDT) three basic psychologcal needs: relatedness, competence, and autonomy. Specifically, […]

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A method for evaluating character education interventions

Below you’ll find one of two abstracts submitted to the Jubilee Centre’s 2026 annual conference. You can find the other abstract here. Neither were accepted. The abstract reports on my MA dissertation study, which attempted to test the lure hypothesis in a school setting. The lure hypothesis, recall, suggests that rewards can be used to