A Teacher’s Guide to the Art of Character Education

With the Character Education Promotion Act, character education has become mandatory in Korean schools. Yet how to carry it out, and how to measure its results, remains unclear. Schools often fall back on eye-catching events that produce visible results but rarely lead to sustained growth in students’ character.

The authors, a classroom teacher and a school health teacher, faced the same problem. This book gathers the cases they worked through in their own classrooms and offers practical, sustainable ways to respond: building Higher Rapport with students, diagnosing through questions, and setting clear value standards such as honesty, sincerity, diligence, consideration, forgiveness, love and positivity.

Character education, the authors argue, is not the same as psychological counselling or communication technique. It starts when teachers change their own thoughts, words and actions, and it reaches beyond the classroom into the home and the workplace.