Leadership - Mr Brown

Ideal leaders as collective phronimoi

Below you’ll find the first abstract that I submitted for presentation at a conference – the Jubilee Centre’s 2024 annual conference on the theme of leadership. The abstract was shortlisted, though ultimately not accepted. Still, I consider that a good result for a first attempt! A phronimos is someone who possesses phronesis or “practical wisdom” […]

Character is what we do in the toilets!

30/05/2025 / MA work / Character education, Extrinsic rewards, Flourishing, Internalisation, Leadership, Paradox of moral education, Virtue ethics

The sixth module of my MA in Character Education (2022-25) was about leadership. This was my opportunity to articulate a vision for leading character education at my school. I had already critiqued my school’s approach to character education – especially its rewards policy – in several previous essays. Now, I had to think about what

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