What should teachers and schools do about moral education? An international team of philosophers and educationalists examine some of the most fundamental questions in moral education, such as the nature of morality.

Introduction PART I The nature of morality and moral education 1 Morality as an educational institution 2 Cross questions and crooked answers: contemporary problems of moral education PART II Rationality, society and the morally educated person 3 Moral education in a pluralist liberal democracy 4 Agency and contingency in moral development and education 5 Education for citizenship PART III Virtues, practices and the education of character 6 The demands of moral education: reasons, virtues, practices 7 How to seem virtuous without actually being so 118 8 Education in character and virtue PART IV Pluralism, postmodernism and moral education 9 Pluralism, moral imagination and moral education 10 Postmodernism and the education of character 11 Against relativism 12 The arts, morality and postmodernism PART V Moral motivation 13 ‘Behaving morally as a point of principle’: a proper aim of moral education? 14 Weakness, wants and the will