Character Education
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[Drug Crime Offender Guidance Program] [Rehabilitation] [Arts Talent Classes] [Reading Seminars] [Professional Treatment Courses] [Life Education Project] [Restorative Justice] [Recreational activities] [Character Education]
I.Background
Article 1 of the Prison Act announces that the execution of imprisonment and detention is for making criminals repent and improve themselves for the purpose of fitting in with society. The function of a prison is to educate inmates while correcting their devious cognition and behaviors using education and reform as methods of treatment along with other kinds of treatments. However, the reasons all crimes are committed is investigated and found out that some criminals show anti-social personality behaviors because their morals and personalities are devious and cause errors in cognitive behavior. Correcting criminals' morals and personalities is one of our basic tasks. Therefore, as a special education correctional organization, promoting character education should be Improved and worked on. By rebuilding good characters, inmates are able to return to normal social life.
Our prison is a women's prison that holds females sentenced in central Taiwan. Comparing to male inmates, plasticity and cognition of female inmates are internalized and more easily improved on things like personality, temperament and learning ability. Therefore, if character education can be strengthened to help correct wrong ideas, it will definitely aid in steering the inmates in the right direction and allow a clean return to the society. Our prison adopts cultural and art treatments. We open bridal secretary classes, Latin percussion groups, aerobic classes, calligraphy classes, choir classes and literacy classes. In addition, we implement all kinds of life education classes that allow inmates to experience the truth, purity and beautiful of life, distinguish the difference between right and wrong and increase their ability of self-reflection.
II.Our Goal
- Creating a good character learning environment, building the 12 core values of character education and molding the new image of correctional organizations.
- Promoting the 4 levels and 12 core values of inmates’ characters that allow inmates to think freely, choose and reflect on the choices and then identify what took place, appreciate and practice character cognition for inmates to be reborn and allow them to turn over a new leaf.
- Increasing the ability of counselors of rehabilitation and education to implement character education, creating Small Discipline Group's attention to character education and developing the discipline function.
- Combining social resources and enhancing prison character education function to increase inmates' personality accomplishments.
- Training inmates' ability to introspect, think and implement character cognition.
III.Outline
- Model Learning:
- Discipliners teach by personal experiences. They become the models that inmates learn from with their own experience or successful experience from others.
- Discipliners introduce early books and historical events to lead inmates to learn and follow so that inmates can be changed and influenced unobtrusively and imperceptibly.
- Discipliners implement discipline rules and are glad to participate in all treatment activities. They educate inmates by example, precept and environment in life at the right moment.
- Edification and thinking:
- Encouraging discipliners to participate in all kinds of moral education studies or related seminars.
- Prisons should hold moral education activities regularly, such as life education picture book contests, speech contests, story writing contests and others to encourage inmates to introspect, change and influence unobtrusively and imperceptibly to increase in their own morals.
- Advice and encouragement:
- Encouraging guidance places moral education into all kinds of treatment and life education courses that allow inmates to think, clarify, accept and be willing to put into practice through more practice, experience and introspection and internalization.
- Encouraging discipliners to plan and use time well for collective education and teach with real examples in life. Holding study groups to lead inmates to discuss 4 levels and 12 core values and proceed by simulating and drilling actual situations if necessary. Providing chances to encourage inmates to learn by doing and practice good character behavior with people in daily life.
- Promoting character education and encouraging, directing and practicing the rules of conduct of the core value of all characters in life review meetings.
- Morals environment:
- Combining social resources to hold all kinds of character education activities or treatment to create a prison with a moral and cultural atmosphere and develop morals environmental education.
- Inviting people who have high morals in society to visit the prison to give speeches or hold cultural & entertainment activities while teaching about a quality cultural environment.
- Experience and introspection: Viewing the results of character education regularly and implementing after correction.
- Positive expectation: Encouraging inmates to set reasonable and good life goals for themselves for an ego massage and actually practicing gradually. Inmates who do well get praised as rewards.
IV.Implementation ways
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Enhancing character education in the prison with one goal-show talent while being good and moral people |
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Creating a moral environment and practicing diligently on environmental protection, energy saving- moral characteristics and environmental protection to provide for a better future. |
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Enhancing family support education and promoting family harmony-put a light on your family. |
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Fulfilling "Wholesome Mind, Beautiful World" and "The Six Ethics of the Mind"- A clear mind brings good. |
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Integrating multi-character education courses-learning from everything and building a new you. |
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Promoting cultural and art activities and starting cultural creativity of correctional organizations-The art restarts again, everything is renewed. |
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Enhancing art training and introducing character education-It's better to count on yourself than on others. |
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Character education is specifically fulfilled in correctional regulations and meetings-Following the prescribed order brings you good future. |
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Making use of social resources and promoting character education activities-Give them a chance and create a peaceful society together. |
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Enhancing discipliners' character education and building learning organizations-They are not fit to command others that cannot command themselves. Start from yourself. |
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V.Expected results
- With character building education, a quality learning environment and combining the influences of art & cultural activities and skill training, the idea and intension of character education are intensified in inmates to promote a healthy personality that has correct & rational thinking along with the ideas of distinguishing right from wrong.
- By the promotion of character education, the identification and common consensuses of correctional organization discipliners to character education are cohered to inspire morale.
- Combining life education to develop holistic education of the balance of body, mind and soul allows inmates to appreciate themselves, respect others, care for society and reduce chances to commit crimes.