Learning and teaching resources for Moral Education, Character and Values

This research section of the moraleducation.info website is a gathering space for materials designed for personal and professional development and classroom use.

The range of materials available to support moral education is potentially endless. Film, literature, newspapers and media of all kinds can help to stimulate or focus discussion. However, there are also materials that have been specifically designed to support study at home or in the classroom.

All of the sites mentioned below have something to offer. Most are entirely free, although some also have items for sale. Some require registration, but there is never a charge for this. Some have been created against the background of particular national contexts or curricula, while others have no such self-imposed limitation. Some of the websites are very substantial and have many areas to explore.

Websites hosted by international organizations or with an explicitly transcultural orientation include the following:

The Calendar of International Days and Weeks is hosted by the United Nations and provides links to a wide range of materials on many different topics in English, Russian, French and Spanish.

Values Education Through Sport is a Unesco initiative with free resources available in several languages.

Liveworksheets is designed as an interactive website where teachers from all over the world can exchange resources with each other. Moral Education is only one of the many areas covered, and materials are available in a wide range of languages.

Other materials are more closely associated with particular countries:

From Ireland:

Ethical Education ‘seeks to offer students the opportunity to meaningfully and critically reflect upon the world around them.’ Most of the materials are geared to the Learn Together Curriculum.

From the UK:

The Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues based at the University of Birmingham offers a massive variety of materials. Primarily developed for classroom use, they are now being supplemented by an increasing number of opportunities for online learning.

The Noisy Classroom produces a range of materials designed to stimulate, inform and structure debates on a wide range of topics.

RE:online is primarily a resource for teachers of RE, offering not only a searchable array of classroom materials but also access to research papers on the subject.

The National Improvement Hub of Education Scotland offers a searchable selection of materials geared to Religious and Moral Education.

Twinkl offers a wide range of resources at various levels on many different topics, including Moral Education. Some are free, others are for sale.

From the USA:

The Center for Character and Citizenship in St Louis, Missouri, provides highly informative whole school and child-centred videos, amongst other resources. There are also links to other websites primarily, although not exclusively, in the USA.

Talking with Trees offers a wide variety of free materials on Character Education, with links to other relevant websites. Books are also available, but they have to be purchased.