Friendship and character education: A systematic review.

Authors

  • Zaida Espinosa Zárate Universidad Loyola Andalucía.
  • Josu Ahedo Ruiz Universidad Internacional de la Rioja.
  • Miguel Rumayor Universidad Panamericana.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22550/REP81-1-2023-08

Keywords:

friendship, character education, systematic review, moral education, virtue, character strengths

Abstract

This paper presents a systematic review of scientific articles on friendship and character education (CE) published between 2007 and 2021. It seeks to identify the dominant theo- ries from which CE is approached, how friend- ship is understood in the studies, and what specific relationship is built between friend- ship and character; in other words, the extent to which it is posited that friendship can be harnessed to acquire virtues. Results indicate a prevalence of a psychological approach to CE, linked to an instrumentalist perspective on friendship, which associates it with certain benefits. However, this approach is closely followed by a philosophical–moral view that understands friendship as a good in itself and, consequently, highlights its humanizing potential. The Aristotelian framework for un- derstanding friendship and character stands out within this approach. The relationship be- tween friendship and character in the selected articles is explored through 5 categories that emerged in the analysis: 1) friendship for char- acter; 2) character for friendship; 3) friendship and transgressions; 4) teachers’ and students’ perceptions of the influence of friendship; and 5) analysis of programmes that include friendship in the curriculum.

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Author Biographies

Zaida Espinosa Zárate, Universidad Loyola Andalucía.

has a Doctorate in philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford (2022), and is the author of the book Percepción, pensamiento y lenguaje. El realismo radical de Reinhardt Grossman y el realismo moderado de Fernando Inciarte [Perception, thought and language: The radical realism of Reinhardt Grossman and the moderate realism of Fernando Inciarte]. Her most recent articles include “Problem-Based Service Learning (PB-SL): Constructing a pedagogy of poverty based on Ignacio Ellacuría” (Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022). Her research is in the fields of ethics and character education. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5217-2731

Josu Ahedo Ruiz, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja.

Licentiate degree in Philosophy, Political Science, and Law. Communication graduate. Doctor of Philosophy. He was a secondary education and baccalaureate Teacher for 16 years. He has been an Associate Professor at the UNIR since 2011. He is Director of the Master’s in Teaching Methods in Personalised Education and Coordinator of the Master’s in Character Education and Emotional Education. He is Director of the El que hacer educativo en acción (Educational work in action) research group (EDUCACCION). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2480-5423

Miguel Rumayor, Universidad Panamericana.

is a researcher at the Universidad Panamericana (Guadalajara, Mexico) and Associate Professor of Theory and History of Education at the Universidad Villanueva (Madrid, Spain). Two six-year research periods recognised by CNEAI (Spain’s national research activity assessment council). Visiting Scholar at Oxford, Notre Dame University, Catholic University, Duquesne University. His most recent work is Vida académica y formación personal: la universidad hoy a la luz del pensamiento de John Henry Newman [Academic life and personal formation: The university today in light of the thought of John Henry Newman] (Eunsa, 2021). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0450-4842

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Espinosa Zárate, Z., Ahedo Ruiz, J., and Rumayor, M. (2023). Friendship and character education: A systematic review. Revista Española de Pedagogía, 81(284), 143–169. https://doi.org/10.22550/REP81-1-2023-08

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Vol. 81 No. 284 (2023)

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