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A comprehensive model of classroom character education is described in terms of nine components: the teacher as caregiver, model, and mentor; creating a caring classroom environment; moral discipline; creating a democratic classroom environment; teaching values through the curriculum; cooperative learning; the conscience of the craft; ethical reflection; and teaching conflict resolution. The article concludes with a critical examination of three different approaches for dealing with controversial issues such as abortion.

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Contextualizing character educationIn England the Education Inspection Framework (OFSTED, 2019) states that school inspectors will: 'make a judgement on the personal development of learners by evaluating the extent to which . . . the curriculum and the provider's wider work support learners to develop their character' (OFSTED, 2019, p. 12 our italics). Foregrounding the importance of character development in the English school inspection criteria follows decades of work by academics to gain an acknowledgement of the importance of addressing this through the school curriculum.The importance of 'character education' has been emphasized in the UK by politicians on both the right and the left of the political spectrum. The increasing attention to educating for character has also come from academics and educators in the US (see, for instance,

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