Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: If anything is of central importance to moral education then epiphanies: for they are ‘peak experience’ in which values in the world are or seem to be directly presented to us. In this paper, I reflect on the question whether and in what sense epiphanic experiences are teachable. My answer to the question is that there are many ways of making people more receptive to epiphanies, and engagement with poetry is one way; an extended example of this engagement is central to the paper. So an openness to epiphanies is certainly teachable—though the actual having of epiphanies is not. Just as we can teach people to fish in the sense that we can make them skilled at getting in a position to catch fish—but cannot thereby guarantee that any fish will actually come their way.
Source: Journal of Moral Education
Author: Sophie Grace Chappell
Institution: The Open University
Language: English
Topic: Values and Moral Education
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4415435619