Piloting a New Virtue Education Curriculum for 5–15-Year-Old Students: What are the Most Challenging Issues in Its Delivery?

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https://doi.org/10.15823/p.2023.150.7

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Covid-19, delivery mode, face-to-face learning and teaching, feasibility, online learning and teaching, pilot study, virtue education curriculum

Abstract

The article analyses Latvian teachers’ opinions regarding the feasibility of a virtue education curriculum for students aged 5–15 years, which they piloted in spring 2021, and identifies the challenges faced when implementing the virtue education curriculum during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings showed that the curriculum could be delivered successfully in both modalities – face-to-face and online – since the teachers’ approaches were creative and transformative in addressing all the challenges identified.

Author Biographies

Svetlana Surikova, University of Latvia

Svetlana Surikova is a doctor of pedagogy, a leading researcher at the Scientific Institute of Pedagogy of the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art of the University of Latvia. Currently her scientific interests are related to the research of students’ virtue education, teacher professional development and training for implementing a virtue education curriculum, etc. She is an expert in social sciences (education sciences) of the Latvian Council of Science. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3025-6344

Anna Sidorova, University of Latvia

Anna Sidorova is a PhD student of a joint doctoral study programme “Educational Sciences”, and an expert at the Scientific Institute of Pedagogy of the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art of the University of Latvia. Her scientific interests are connected with the research of students’ virtue education, competence-based education, transversal skills,  and how all of it may be implemented in the curriculum. Since 2011 she has been teaching students of age 4 to 19 English as a foreign language. She is an expert in ‘Skola2030’ project ‘Tavaklase.lv’. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-8710

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2023-09-18

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Surikova, S., & Sidorova, A. (2023). Piloting a New Virtue Education Curriculum for 5–15-Year-Old Students: What are the Most Challenging Issues in Its Delivery?. Pedagogy / Pedagogika, 150(2), 119–145. https://doi.org/10.15823/p.2023.150.7

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Vol. 150 No. 2 (2023): Pedagogika

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