About The Guests

Matthew Post, PhD, Acting Director of the St. Ambrose Center for Catholic Liberal Education and Culture and Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Dallas
Dr. Post has spent his career teaching the Great Books of the Western tradition, having worked in Canada, Japan and Slovakia in addition to the U.S. In the Slovak Republic, he had the privilege to build a Great Books program at a school whose mission was to renew classical education after decades of communist rule had obscured the country’s history and traditions. His research explores how best to understand and promote virtue, service and leadership through education, especially through great works of philosophy, literature, music, and art. Most recently, he is studying how to potentially narrow the moral–action gap by cultivating virtuous motivation and practical wisdom.

Steven J. Bourgeois, PhD, Founder and CEO, Ahart Solutions

Dr. Bourgeois is founder and CEO of Ahart Solutions, an educational research firm primarily serving schools of choice. He has a record of publications in peer-reviewed educational journals and presentations at state, regional, national, and international conferences in the areas of student motivation, transformational leadership, and collective teacher efficacy. He served as Executive Director of Research for the largest charter holder in Texas. He is an Adjunct Professor in the Braniff Graduate School at the University of Dallas and teaches doctoral courses in qualitative research in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the UT-Arlington.

Contact: sbourgeois@ahartsolutions.com
Website:www.ahartsolutions.com

Show Notes

You might be wondering if your character education programs really works. It has been discovered that virtue growth is measurable. Podcast guests, Dr.Matthew Post and Dr. Steve Bourgeois are ready to unveil, after extensive research, their Character Education assessment surveys. With their expertise, schools can support their intentions while implementing character education programs.

Some questions we cover in this episode:

To what extent can we measure virtue? To what extent can we measure motivation?
Define and explain the connections between moral cognition and moral action and how this can be measured.
How and why can this type of research be beneficial?

Some participants include schools in Texas, Arizona, and Minnesota. They also have a partnership with The Canyon Center for Character Education, which is part of Grand Canyon University.

You can participate in character education assessments for your school. Contact: sbourgeois@ahartsolutions.com
Explore the research: https://ahartsolutions.com/virtuous-motivation

Resources and Books & Mentioned In This Episode

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Previous podcast episode with Dr. Steve Bourgeois on Motivation and Praise: How to Encourage Intrinsic Motivation
Grand Canyon University

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