Canyon Center for Character Education
The goal of the Canyon Center for Character Education is to build a national movement around character education using GCU College of Education’s vast network of students, faculty, alumni and partners to promote school cultures that encourage human and societal flourishing through virtue formation.
The best way to make a more just and caring world is to make more just and caring people (Berkowitz, 2011). Character education includes the acquisition and strengthening of virtues to live a flourishing life and contribute to the betterment of society. Character education is modeling and teaching virtue knowledge, understanding, literacy, reasoning and formation to cultivate a thriving society through the development of confident and compassionate humans who are effective contributors to society, successful learners, moral decision makers and responsible citizens. A focus on character education has life-long impact in the lives of all!
