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Samuelson, Peter L. "Moral imagination in theory and practice." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04232007-151719/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Ann Cale Kruger, committee chair; Laura D. Fredrick, Amy R. Lederberg, John Suarey, committee members. Electronic text (129 p. : col. ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 25, 2007. Includes bibliographical references.
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Samuelson, Peter Leland. "Moral Imagination in Theory and Practice." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/epse_diss/45.
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A review of the literature in several domains reveals that moral imagination plays a role in how we deliberate about moral issues and what motivates us to act in a moral way. This study begins by outlining an operational definition of moral imagination based largely on Dewey’s model of dramatic rehearsal (Dewey, 1922), along with an explication of the role of image schemas, metaphor, empathy, and narrative in moral imagination (Johnson, 1993) and an examination of how moral imagination develops through the lifespan. A review of the research of the components of moral imagination is included, especially in the literature of moral development, problem solving, and creativity, as well as a proposal of an avenue of research to advance the understanding of this vital and complex human capacity. The study continues with an investigation of a curriculum designed to foster the cognitive processing of empathic emotions stimulated by viewing film clips from Hollywood-produced films. The curriculum stimulates moral imagination by offering situations in which participants can place themselves and then discuss possible moral outcomes. The curriculum is thought to aid in the development of moral expertise by exposing participants to a perspective-taking script from childhood (Hoffman, 2000) and making that script chronically accessible to the participant (Lapsley & Narvaez, in press). Three hundred sixty-six students (grades third through eighth) enrolled in after-school programs in two rural Georgia counties were randomly assigned to either an intervention or control group. The content of the intervention was delivered in a 3-week period in one county and in a 9-week period in the other. Results indicate that the longer intervention produced more gains in moral theme recognition (MTI; Narvaez, Gleason, Mitchell, & Bentley, 1999) compared to the shorter intervention. Participants in the shorter intervention demonstrated an attraction to moral theme statements reflecting higher stages of moral reasoning after the intervention than before compared to a control group from the same county. While further study is warranted, it appears the curriculum initiated a transition to higher stage reasoning in some of the participants.
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Hulshult, Nancy Kay. "MORAL LEADERSHIP IN ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1114085889.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Educational Leadership, 2005.Title from second page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [2], v, 117 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-97).
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Ching, Sik-man Sandie. "An exploratory study on moral education in secondary schools : implications for social work practice /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12325752.
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Lawrence, Lisa Ann. "Work Engagement, Moral Distress, Education Level, and Critical Reflective Practice in Intensive Care Nurses." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193772.
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The purpose of this study was to examine how nurses' critical reflective practice, education level, and moral distress related to their work engagement. This is an area of study relevant to nursing, given documented United States Registered Nurse (RN) experiences of job related distress and work dissatisfaction, and the nursing shortage crisis. Nurses are central players in the provision of quality health care. There is need for better understanding of RNs' work engagement and factors that may enhance their work experience. A theoretical framework of critical reflective practice was developed and examined in this study.A non-experimental, descriptive, correlational design was used to examine the relationships among four study variables: critical reflective practice, education level, moral distress, and work engagement. The purposive sample consisted of 28 intensive care unit RNs (ICU-RNs) from three separate ICUs (medical, neonatal, and pediatric) in a 355-bed Southwest magnet-designated hospital. Measures of the key variables were as follows: (1) Critical Reflective Practice Questionnaire (CRPQ) developed for this study; (2) a subscale of Mary C. Corley's Moral Distress Scale; (3) Education level measured as the highest nursing degree earned to practice as a RN; and (4) the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. All instruments demonstrated adequate reliability and validity.Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyses indicated support for the theoretical framework: There was a negative direct relationship between moral distress and work engagement, a positive direct relationship between critical reflective practice and work engagement, and moral distress and critical reflective practice, together, explained 47% of the variance in work engagement. Additionally, in the NICU, results indicated a positive direct relationship between increased educational level and critical reflective practice. Results also indicated that moral distress was a clinically significant issue for ICU-RNs in this sample.Strategies to promote critical reflective practice and reduce moral distress are recommended. Additionally, the findings support continued study of critical reflective practice and moral distress, and the role of education level, in nurses' work engagement. Research goals include continued study of the theoretical framework in larger study samples and in reference to additional explanatory factors.
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Ching, Sik-man Sandie, and 程式文. "An exploratory study on moral education in secondary schools: implications for social work practice." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1986. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31247593.
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Phisalaphong, Rathdow. "Teacher Practice, Curriculum, and Children's Moral Development in Buddhist Temple Preschools in Thailand." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3001/.
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This study investigated what constitutes a moral development program in Buddhist temple preschools in Thailand. The researcher employed three qualitative methods: structured, in-depth interviews, observations of teachers' instruction, and document analysis of curriculum guides. Four Buddhist temple preschools were selected as the sites. Participants for interview included three abbots and one head nun, four principals, and twelve teachers. Participants for observations included four teachers of third year classes in each preschool. The study concentrated on four research questions: (a) what are the elements of the character education curriculum? (b) How do teachers teach moral development concepts and skills? (c) What are the teachers' perceptions of the moral development of third year preschoolers? (d) How do teachers assess their pupils' moral development? Key findings for the research questions were: character education was not a subject in the National Preschool Curriculum which was implemented in the Buddhist temple preschools. Core morality was integrated into every topic. The moral behaviors emphasized in the curriculum and the lesson plans included discipline, mindfulness, kindness, helpfulness, patience, honesty, respect, thriftiness, and politeness. The Buddhist concept of the process of moral development includes character education and meditation. The preschoolers were trained to pay respect to teachers and parents as an obedience approach to character education. Preparation of teachers included screening for their values and pre-service training. The instruction of meditation was approached gradually and aroused the children's interest. After three years of schooling, the third year preschoolers were well-behaved, helpful, and kind; no aggressive behaviors were reported. The assessment of moral development of preschoolers was based on observation of the teachers throughout the school year. Implications for practice are discussed, including procedures for gathering information on beliefs, attitudes, and culture of the parents before implementation of different models of moral development. Finally, future research directions are proposed.
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Norberg, Katarina. "The School as a Moral Arena : Constitutive values and deliberation in Swedish curriculum practice." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Pedagogiska institutionen, Univ, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-273.
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OLMSTEAD, GWENDOLYN TOROK. "MORAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND ITS PRACTICAL APPLICATION: MORAL EDUCATION IN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin990811063.
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Gong, Susan Peterson. "The Moral Realism of Student Question-Asking in Classroom Practice." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6888.
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Question-asking has long been an integral part of human learning. In scholarly investigations over the past several decades, questions have been studied in terms of the answers they generate, their grammatical structure, their cognitive functions, their logical content, and their social dynamics. Studies of student classroom questioning have focused on science education and reading instruction particularly; they detail the reasons why students don't ask questions and explore a plethora of recommendations about teaching students how to question. This qualitative study addressed question-asking from a hermeneutic moral realist perspective, studying question-asking as it unfolded in the everyday practice of learning in a graduate seminar on design thinking. Findings of the study included seven themes that fit within three broader metathemes about the complexities and virtues of classroom questioning, the sociality of question-asking, and the temporality of questions in practice. Specific themes of the study concerned the complexity of overlapping practices within the classroom, ways in which students evaluated the quality and virtue of their questioning interactions, the moral reference points that guided student participation in various kinds of questioning (i.e., convergent questions, divergent questions, challenges to others), and the temporality of question-asking that reflected the way questions mattered to the students and how different aspects of the subject matter were disclosed and concealed in the process of learning. Findings from this study suggest that a moral realist-oriented inquiry can provide a wide-ranging and nuanced set of insights regarding question-asking as a part of student learning.
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Winston, Joe. "An inquiry into the relationship between drama, traditional stories and the moral education of children in primary schools." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/59524/.
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This thesis is an inquiry into the relationship between drama and traditional stories and their potential contributions, when used together, to the moral education of young children. The stimulus for this inquiry has stemmed from my own academic interests and professional practice as a teacher educator for the primary age range. It is underpinned by a belief that this is an area which has been both under-researched and under-theorised but that it is nonetheless of interest and importance for drama teachers, primary teachers and others who share an interest in the moral development of young children. The research has proceeded with two parallel but closely related forms of inquiry. The one has been an academic investigation into those theoretical issues which underpin the project and the other has consisted of fieldwork within primary classrooms, centred upon my own teaching. In its final form, the thesis is presented in two parts of roughly equal length, the one concentrating on theoretical concerns, the other consisting of a critical analysis of my own classroom practice, where issues of theory are investigated as they directly impinge upon it. However, it has been a key aim throughout this project to relate theory closely to practice, so that the one might continually inform the other as the research progressed. In the introduction, I give an account of the genesis of the inquiry, provide an argument for its significance to the contemporary educational debate and give a clear exposition of its parameters. In Part I, I begin with a discussion of current developments in moral educational theory and make the case for the importance of narrative and narrative literature in the development of moral understanding. In applying these theories to literary versions of traditional tales, however, it becomes quickly clear that the area is problematic and informed by contradictory theories and profound disagreement. I propose that the narrative form of these tales is inappropriate to didactic moral teaching and argue that a perspective which is informed by their mythic and oral origins is best placed to help our understanding of how they can be harnessed for the purposes of moral learning. I argue that there are historical and artistic reasons for seeing an important role for drama. in this process and examine how moral processes are engaged and informed by the dramatic event. In Part IT, I introduce the fieldwork with a critical look at how the practices of drama in education can be used to engage children in ethical exploration as defined within the parameters of this inquiry. I provide a detailed account of the research methodology followed by three case studies, each of which recounts and analyses a series of lessons with three separate classes of children, centred around three distinct traditional tales. These case studies are discursive in nature, each focusing upon issues and questions generated by the particular stories and lessons. They are informed by the theoretical exposition in Part I but generate their own theoretical perspectives and hypotheses which I propose to have implications for general classroom practice within this area. In the concluding chapter, I propose that the theoretical thrust and practical findings of the project signal an important role for drama in a school's moral education policy and suggest particular areas of inquiry which would further inform this argument.
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Holt, M. "Practical and moral aspects of curriculum change." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372573.
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Thornberg, Robert. "Värdepedagogik i skolans vardag : Interaktivt regelarbete mellan lärare och elever." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för pedagogik i utbildning och skola (PiUS), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-6257.
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The aim of this study is to explore values education as it takes place in everyday interactions between teachers and students. Focus has been on rule practice between teachers and students, which has been interpreted during the research process as the most salient phenomenon in the practice of values education. The study is based on fieldwork in two schools. Two kindergarten-classes, two classes in grade 2, and two classes in grade 5 – in sum, 141 students and 13 teachers – participated. The analysis was accomplished by means of procedures influenced by Grounded Theory. According to the results, teachers’ practice of values education is primarily manifested in everyday teacher-student–interactive rule practice, which refers to all aspects of everyday activity by which participants construct, maintain, mediate, and negotiate rules for and in everyday interaction. A significant part of values education is unplanned and reactive, embedded in everyday life of school with a focus on students’ behaviour, and mostly or partly unconscious. The analysis of the rules in the two schools resulted in five rule categories: relational rules, structuring rules, protecting rules, ersonal rules, and etiquette rules. The meaning of the rule system is to construct order in school and to foster the students in a moral sense by mediating a construction of the desirable student: the benevolent fellow-buddy and the wellbehaved student. According to the findings, four main intervention strategies are used by the teachers within the everyday rule practice: assertion, explanation, negotiation, and preparation. Students meaningmaking of rules vary across the rule-categories. Furthermore, the meanings students make of the rules affect how they value the rules. Relational rules are seen as the most important rules. Many protecting rules and structuring rules are also valued as important. In contrast to these rules, tiquette rules are valued as least important or unnecessary, which, at least in part, could be explained by the students’ problem in making meaning of these rules. To perceive a reasonable and trustworthy meaning behind a rule seems to be a significant part in students’ rule acceptance. Furthermore, students reflect on and judge their school rules and their teachers’ performance in rule practice. Perceptions of injustice, inconsistencies, nonsense, or deceptiveness in relation to rules or teacher behaviour, evoke critique among students, even if students seldom or never articulate their arguments in front of the teachers. The results are discussed in relation to other research and theories such as social constructivism, domain theory, and symbolic interactionism.Syftet med denna studie är att utforska den värdepedagogik som äger rum i de vardagliga interaktionerna mellan lärare och elever i skolan. Fokus har riktats mot det som under forskningsarbetets gång har växt fram och som framstår som det mest framträdande i den vardagliga värdepedagogiska praktiken: regelarbetet mellan lärare och elever. En fältstudie har genomförts på två skolor. Två förskoleklasser, två klasser i år 2 och två klasser i år 5 – sammanlagt 13 lärare och 141 elever – har deltagit i studien. Analysen genomfördes genom procedurer inspirerade av Grounded Theory. Enligt resultatet kommer lärares värdepedagogik främst till uttryck genom ett vardagligt lärarelev–interaktivt regelarbete, vilket avser alla aspekter av den vardagliga praktiken genom vilka deltagare konstruerar, upprätthåller, medierar och förhandlar om regler i och för det vardagliga samspelet. En stor del av värdepedagogiken är oplanerad och reaktiv, delvis eller i stor utsträckning oreflekterad eller omedveten samt inbäddad i skolans vardag med ett fokus på elevernas beteende. Analysen av regler i de två skolorna har resulterat i fem regelkategorier: relationella regler, strukturerande regler, skyddande regler, personella regler och etikettsregler. Regelsystemets mening är att skapa ordning i skolan och att fostra eleverna genom att mediera konstruktionen av den önskvärda eleven: den välviljande medkamraten och den skötsamma eleven. Enligt resultatet använder lärare fyra interventionsstrategier i det vardagliga regelarbetet: påtryckning, förklaring, förhandling och preparering. Elevernas meningsskapande av regler varierar mellan olika regelkategorier och detta tycks även påverka deras värdesättande av regler. Relationella regler värderas som de viktigaste reglerna. Flera skyddande regler och strukturerande regler värderas som viktiga. Till skillnad från dessa regler värderas etikettsreglerna i regel som minst viktiga eller helt onödiga, vilket åtminstone delvis kan förklaras av elevernas svårigheter i att skapa mening med dessa regler. Att uppfatta en resonabel och trovärdig mening bakom en regel tycks vara en betydelsefull del i elevers regelacceptans. Flera elever reflekterar över och bedömer sina skolregler och sina lärares insatser i regelarbetet. Upplevelser av orättvisa, inkonsistenser, onödigheter eller lögn i relation till regler eller lärares beteenden väcker kritik bland elever, även om eleverna sällan eller aldrig verbaliserar sina argument inför lärarna. Resultaten diskuteras i ljuset av annan forskning om skolans moraliska praktik och elevers meningsskapande av detta samt teorier som socialkonstruktivism, domänteori och symbolisk interaktionism.
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Asquith, Merrylyn. "Ideals, myths and realities a postmodern analysis of moral-ethical decision-making and professional ethics in social work practice." full text, 2002. http://www.dhs.sa.gov.au/dhs-library/documents/ideals,-myths-and-realities.pdf.
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Pudas, A. K. (Anna-Kaisa). "A moral responsibility or an extra burden?:a study on global education as part of Finnish basic education." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2015. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526208657.
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Abstract This dissertation focuses on global education (GE) and on its implementation in lower level basic education in Finland. The aim of my research was to investigate the present position of GE in basic education schools; identify the practices and problem areas in the implementation of GE; find practical solutions to facilitate the implementation; and consequently, to contribute to subsequent decision making regarding successful integration of GE in national basic education in Finland. The research may best be described as a pragmatic, qualitative dominant mixed research study that also had at the beginning features of action research. GE has served as my theoretical foundation and social learning theory has been used for studying teaching and learning from GE perspective. The main research methods were content analysis of the National Core Curriculum for Basic Education (2004) and the GE 2010 programme and research questionnaires that were sent to basic education principals, teachers, and pupils to collect data from the field. A study on textbook research has also been conducted and representatives of the two main textbook publishers in Finland were interviewed for the research. The main findings of the research suggest that GE is not systematically implemented in basic education schools in Finland even though many of the areas of GE are considered important. The main problems in implementation were seen to be the lack of conceptual clarity and the fact that GE was perceived as an additional burden for the schools rather than as an integral part of all school activities. As GE was not an explicit part of the official curriculum, it was not considered mandatory and the schools were not sufficiently resourced for teaching it. All in all, the findings focus on discussing the operational culture of schools and the role of diverse transactions in realising the aims of GE. The role of educational policy documents and the relationship between national and local curricula is found to be complex on many levels. Efficient policy implementation needs attention. This dissertation also gives suggestions on how to improve the current situation. These include clarifying the GE concept, including GE explicitly in the curriculum, defining the short-term objectives and assessment policies, training teachers and principals, resourcing the schools and teachers appropriately to teach GETiivistelmä Tämän väitöskirjatutkimuksen aiheena on globaalikasvatus ja sen täytäntöönpano suomalaisen perusopetuksen alakouluissa. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli kartuttaa tietoa globaalikasvatuksen teoreettisesta perustasta ja nykyisistä käytännöistä erityisesti Suomen kontekstissa. Tutkimuksen tehtävänä oli selvittää perusopetuksen globaalikasvatuksen tila, tunnistaa ongelmakohdat globaalikasvatuksen täytäntöönpanossa, löytää käytännön ratkaisuja täytäntöönpanon helpottamiseksi sekä täten myötävaikuttaa päätöksentekoon, jolla globaalikasvatus saadaan onnistuneesti yhdistettyä kansalliseen perusopetukseen Suomessa. Tutkimusta voi parhaiten kuvailla pragmaattisena, pääasiallisesti kvalitatiivisena ”mixed research” -tutkimuksena, jossa alussa oli myös toimintatutkimuksen piirteitä. Globaalikasvatus muodostaa työni teoreettisen perustan ja sosiaalisen oppimisen teoriaa on käytetty tutkittaessa opettamista ja oppimista globaalikasvatuksen näkökulmasta. Pääasiallisina tutkimusmetodeina on käytetty sisällönanalyysia, jolla on analysoitu Perusopetuksen opetussuunnitelman perusteita 2004 ja Kansainvälisyyskasvatus 2010 -ohjelmaa sekä tutkimuskyselyitä, joilla kerättiin tietoa perusopetusta antavien koulujen rehtoreilta, opettajilta ja oppilailta. Lisäksi tutkimusta varten on haastateltu kahden suurimman oppikirjavalmistajan edustajia sekä analysoitu tutkimuksia, joita on tehty Suomen perusopetuksen oppikirjoista. Tutkimuksen päätulokset osoittavat, että globaalikasvatusta ei ole systemaattisesti huomioitu Suomen perusopetusta antavissa kouluissa, vaikka monia globaalikasvatukseen kuuluvia aihealueita pidetäänkin perusopetukselle tärkeinä. Suurimmiksi ongelmiksi kentällä nähdään käsitteen tuntemattomuus ja epämääräisyys sekä se, että globaalikasvatusta ei liitetä kiinteästi kaikkeen koulun toimintaan. Sen sijaan se nähdään ylimääräisenä satunnaisena lisänä, jolla ei ole keskeistä roolia kouluissa. Koska globaalikasvatus ei eksplisiittisesti ole osa virallista opetussuunnitelmaa, sitä ei pidetty ensisijaisen velvoittavana eikä globaalikasvatuksen toteuttamiseen katsottu olevan riittävästi resursseja. Kaiken kaikkiaan tuloksissa pohditaan kouluyhteisön toimintakulttuuria ja moninaisten vuorovaikutusten roolia globaalikasvatuksen tavoitteiden saavuttamisessa. Tärkeäksi muodostuu myös koulutuspoliittisten asiakirjojen asema sekä valtakunnallisen ja koulukohtaisesti toteutetun opetussuunnitelman suhde globaalikasvatuksen toteuttamisessa. Tässä väitöskirjassa esitetään tilanteeseen parannusehdotuksia. Ehdotuksiin sisältyy käsitteen avaaminen, kiinteän yhteyden rakentaminen opetussuunnitelman ja käytännön välille, globaalikasvatuskompetenssien ja niihin liittyvien arviointiperiaatteiden määritteleminen, opettajankoulutuksen ja koulun johtajien koulutuksen kehittäminen sekä koulujen ja opettajien varustaminen globaalikasvatusta varten
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Nemeth, Ferenc. "Leading a gifted and talented programme in an international school : an examination from a moral leadership perspective." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38598/.
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This thesis presents an examination of leadership practice as it responds to the implementation of a gifted and talented program. The examination is conducted through the lens of moral leadership theories. This thesis heeds the call from researchers who have suggested the need for moral case studies to assist school leaders in 'making confident ethical judgments that transcend mere intuition' (Campbell, 1995: p. 605). Theories from moral philosophy and concepts from moral psychology are brought into the discussion in an attempt to address concerns with respects to the theoretical underpinnings of the concept moral leadership. The combined framework advances a model of a moral process that provides specific sign posts that allow for an inquiry into the moral decision making a school leader undergoes in addressing a moral issue. This study uses a multi-method research design involving both narrative and statistical analyses focused upon data generated from semi-structured interviews, questionnaires, observations, and document analysis. My analysis of key informants provides additional insight into the process that school leaders undergo in order to address a moral issue. The significance of the analysis was the generation of five categories: personal integrity, professional ethics, structural collaboration, exogenous influences and constructive concerns. Each of the five categories highlighted were influential in the decision to implement the gifted and talented program. The organisational and geographic context for this examination is an International School located in Turkey (IST).
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Moabelo, Boikanyo Caroline. "Secondary school teachers perceptions, practices and expectations on moral education in Limpopo Province." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3045.
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Thesis (PhD. (Education)) --University of Limpopo, 2019.This study explored secondary school teachers’ perceptions, practices and expectations on moral education. Specifically, three areas of investigation were (a) teachers’ perceptions, (b) practices, and (c) expectations. The purpose of the study was drawn from the fact that our society is currently at crossroads and need to revamp the present education system so that it morphs into a pivotal tool for developing moral values. The study commenced with an examination of the context, demographics of the schools, teachers and learners. It followed 4 secondary school teachers in Capricorn District of Limpopo Province, over the course of three phases. A critical review and evaluation of empirical studies pertaining to moral education in secondary schools locally and further afield is presented. The theoretical framework of constructivist epistemology and the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism guided this study. The research design combined the usual elements of case study (participant observation, individual and focus group interviews), along with documents analysis and records designed to supplement and corroborate data. Through descriptive thematic and framework analyses applied to data collected, several findings emerged from this study. Firstly, it became clear from teachers’ perceptions that there is insufficient theoretical background on foundations of moral education. This finding has several implications for teacher training syllabus that bears further implications on content comprising of philosophical, sociological and psychological foundations of moral education. Secondly, based on teachers’ practices of moral education, there is a shortage of teaching skills for moral education. This is an indication of a dire need for them to be exposed to various teaching approaches and their alternatives which has implications on organisation of methodology and evaluation. Thirdly, regarding teachers’ expectations in the implementation of moral education for a multicultural society, this study revealed lack of teacher support and calls for their development in this regard. Fourthly, numerous moral agents depicted as stakeholders in moral education can compensate one another in the battle to improve the moral fibre in our schools. Lastly, the moral life that is restricted to the classroom implies supplementation through the adoption of a comprehensive approach to foster moral values beyond the classroom. Despite the limitations encountered during the execution of this study, such as lack of other moral agents’ voices and selection of other contexts, this study’s findings warrant further exploration, and publication. The study provided evidence for the claim that secondary school teachers’ perceptions, practices and expectations are important constructs that can contribute to the body of knowledge in the moral education literature.
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Sellman, Derek. "Philosophical perspectives on trustworthiness and open-mindedness as professional virtues for the practice of nursing : implications for the moral education of nurses." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10006664/.
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Peckover, Christopher Allen. "Generative Community as a Regulative Ideal: The Moral Assessment of Educational Aims and of Educational Policies and Practices." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4894.
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The United States system of education is guided by broad underlying educational aims, whether or not those aims are critically examined or recognized. Contemporary educational discourse, however, has primarily focused on the level of implementation of policies and practices. This is a problem, because the broad underlying educational aims that guide the system of education have profound effects on humans' lives and the larger social structure. The question of what aims ought to guide education is a moral question that requires moral justification.
In this dissertation I develop the concept of Generative Community as a regulative ideal and use it to assess the moral value of six educational aims and six educational policies and practices. In conceptualizing Generative Community, I draw on the insights of Deweyan pragmatism. I draw on Dewey's work because of the clarity Dewey brings to the concept of education, the notion of an "ideal", and because of the clarity Dewey brings to the concept of moral value.
There are two parts to this dissertation. Part I is titled "Developing a Regulative Ideal for Educational Aims, Policies, and Practices".
In Part I, Chapter 1, I first explicate the concept of education that I employ. Second, I examine the scholarly literature in the field of educational philosophy on the subject of educational aims. Third, I set out the ethical theory of Dewey's reflective morality and critically assess its merits. I conclude that Deweyan reflective morality is a well warranted moral theory and can serve as the means to reach morally justifiable decisions.
In Part I, Chapter 2, I first discuss the multidimensional notion of the "Good Life" as an ultimate aim of education. I draw on Dewey's notion of "moral happiness" to give definition to the concept of the Good Life, and argue that society is best enabled to approach the Good Life if its decision making processes conform to a Deweyan form of reflective moral reasoning. Given this, a morally good education must provide conditions that are conducive to a) the occurrence of reflective morality and b) the realization of moral happiness and the Good Life. I then develop a conception of a state of affairs that would constitute an ideal, in the Deweyan sense, such an ideal being necessary for the Deweyan process of reflective morality. This is the concept of generative community. This concept is intended to serve as a regulative ideal.
Part II of the dissertation is titled "Using Generative Community as a Regulative Ideal to Assess the Moral Value of Educational Aims, Policies, and Practices. In Part II, Chapter III, I select and explicate six educational aims that have figured prominently in the U.S. system of education. I then assess each by reference to generative community as a regulative ideal. These aims are: 1) to disseminate knowledge; 2) to increase economic efficiency; 3) to achieve individual self-realization; 4) to promote cultural assimilation; 5) to promote the growth of democracy; and, 6) to advance social justice.
In Part II, Chapter IV, I select and explicate six prominent and politically important cases of educational policy and practice in the United States. The first three cases of educational policy and practice exemplify features within the current system of education that conflict with generative community. The second three cases exemplify features within the current system of education that align well with generative community.
Finally, in the Conclusion, I provide a summary account of the work that has been accomplished.
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Onghero, Andre Luiz. "Moral e civismo nos curriculos das escolas do oeste catarinense : memorias de professores." [s.n.], 2007. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/252054.
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Orientador : Maria do Carmo MartinsDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação
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Resumo : Esta pesquisa tem como objeto a disciplina de Educação Moral e Cívica (EMC) nos currículos escolares e nas práticas dos professores de escolas do Oeste catarinense durante o período de 1969 a 1993. A partir de fontes históricas variadas como leis, decretos e pareceres; livros didáticos e depoimentos de professores, procuro construir um conhecimento histórico que inclui as práticas de EMC nas escolas de uma região com características específicas. A Educação Moral e Cívica esteve presente nos currículos escolares a partir da proclamação da República, em certos períodos, como disciplina escolar e, em outros, como prática educativa. Após a instalação da Ditadura Militar, foi incluída como disciplina escolar obrigatória e prática educativa, permanecendo nos currículos escolares até 1993. Esta pesquisa analisa as prescrições curriculares para a disciplina, a formação de professores e os conteúdos programados. Alguns conteúdos da disciplina foram analisados com base nos livros didáticos, entrevistas e prescrições. Nas entrevistas, os professores narram diferentes práticas, atividades, avaliações e usos para os livros didáticos, demonstrando relativa autonomia em suas aulas
Abstract : The object of this research is the school subject Moral and Civic Education (EMC) in the school curriculum and practices of the teachers from the West of Santa Catarina schools during the 1969 to 1993 period. Starting from different historical fonts as legislation, didactical books, photographs and teacher¿s testimonials, I intent to build an historical knowledge that includes the practices of EMC in the schools from a place with specific characteristics. The moral and civic education was included in the school curriculum after the proclamation of republic, some periods as a school subject and others as an educative practice. After the introduction of the Military Dictatorship, it was implanted as obligatory school subject and educative practice, remaining in the school curriculum until 1993. This research analyses the curricular order to the subject, the teachers formation and the programmated contents. Some contents were analyzed using the didactical books, interviews and curricular orders. In the interviews, the teachers talk about different practices, activities, avaliations and the uses for the didactic books, showing a relative autonomy in their classes
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Smith, Westley Thomas. "A comparative study of the moral values and practices of Christian school and public school students within church youth groups in metropolitan Atlanta." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Anderson, Desiree. "The Use of Campus Based Restorative Justice Practices to Address Incidents of Bias: Facilitators’ Experiences." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2442.
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Student conduct plays an integral role in the functioning of an institution and the moral development of students. As multiple models of student conduct exist, such as the Model Student Conduct Code or a Restorative Justice Approach, it is critical to have an understanding of the various structures and how to choose the most effective structure for addressing the diversifying needs of the campus community. Most college and university campuses use the Model Student Conduct Code (Dannells, 1997) which tends to place a heavy emphasis on authority and is more legalistic which creates an “adversarial environment” (Lowery & Dannells, 2004) on college and university campuses. It can be argued that the traditional student conduct code does not make space for individuals to engage in dialogue and for learning to take place. The focus of this dissertation is to understand the experiences of facilitators as they develop, implement, and use restorative justice models on college and university campuses, which provide a guiding framework for dialogue between victims/harmed parties and offenders/respondents and may be better suited as a means of managing bias and hate-motivated incidents. Restorative practices have been implemented in criminal justice, and K-12 environments and are seen by some as an antidote to overly legalistic campus conduct processes (Karp, 2004). This phenomenological research explores the experiences of individuals who have facilitated a campus-based restorative process and how that experience may impact their view of and the opportunities to improve campus climate through the lens of Critical Race Theory and Models of Moral development. Through this study, conduct and other campus administrators can gain valuable information on how restorative processes are developed, how facilitators gained and maintained institutional support, and how successful facilitators find the process in meeting their goals of student learning. Campus administrators will also gain insight on the perceived effectiveness of restorative practices as a tool for managing incidents of bias and the perception of the campus climate.
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Farsani, Danyal. "Making multi-modal mathematical meaning in multilingual classrooms." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5752/.
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This thesis investigates communication (verbal and nonverbal) in a bilingual (Farsi-English) complementary school mathematics’ classroom. The study examines gestures were used as a resource for teaching mathematics in a bilingual setting, enabling intercolutors to construct meaning and mediate understanding. That is, the ways in which language and gesture can be seen as resources in supporting and conveying mathematical ideas is described. I investigated a number of verbal and nonverbal resources and show how these are culturally and socially shaped. I also explored how modes of communication are employed in creating mathematical meaning in a bilingual classroom context. A multimodality framework was adopted to analyse data which included audio and video recordings, observations and interviews with teachers and pupils. I found that gestures were employed to convey aspects of the mathematical register and how these were used to amplify what interlocutors were expressing verbally. Furthermore, I identified that different languages activated a different conceptual understanding of the same mathematical concept which was reflected through the students’ and teachers’ gestures.
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Creel, James R. "The religious beliefs, moral beliefs, and lifestyle practices of the high school students who attend Berean Academy." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Murrill, Leslie D. III. "Evolution Toward Democratic Community: A Teacher's Journey." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30437.
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This qualitative study followed the classroom practices of a second grade teacher
across the course of a school year. Data collection methods used included interviews,
fieldnotes, observations, various site artifacts and photographs. Informants were the
classroom teacher, thirteen second grade students, the building principal, and several
colleagues, family members and friends identified by the teacher.
The study used literature in the fields of critical pedagogy and democratic
educational practice to interpret the teacher's work. Analysis suggested that the second
grade class group evolved toward a sense of democratic community as the teacher: 1)
provided the foundations of relationship, high expectations and belief in her students; 2)
created classroom structures that supported the growth of moral intelligence amongst
class members; and 3) extended opportunities for students to regularly contribute to and
actively participate in class experiences.
Findings suggest that a sense of democratic community can not be quickly or
easily realized. As this teacher sought to foster its development through building
foundations, creating support structures and extending opportunities to her students, she
experienced unpredictability, risk and struggle. Significantly, however, she perceived her
daily struggles as opportunities to reflectively reconsider her teaching practices. As she
continually assessed and refined her practices, she and her students grew as a mutually
supportive community.Ph. D.
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Couto, Leandra Lúcia Moraes. "Prática docente e justiça : educação em valores morais no ensino fundamental." Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2013. http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/6656.
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Previous issue date: 2013-12-20Neste estudo, dedicamos-nos a investigar os juízos de professoras acerca do ensino do valor moral da justiça em suas práticas pedagógicas. Além disso, propomos-nos a verificar se tais práticas modificam-se em razão do ano escolar para o qual cada participante leciona. Para tanto, entrevistamos 23 professoras do ensino fundamental, sendo 11 docentes de 1º ano e 12 de 5º ano, de escolas públicas localizadas em bairros de classe baixa do município de Vitória, Espírito Santo. Realizamos entrevistas individuais, de acordo com o método clínico piagetiano. A análise dos dados foi realizada a partir da teoria piagetiana e da sistematização proposta por Delval. Analisamos as concepções de justiça das professoras, as motivações para o ensino da justiça e os procedimentos que as entrevistadas consideram que utilizam para ensinar esse valor moral. Os resultados obtidos permitem considerar que a concepção de justiça das docentes está, sobretudo, relacionada à temática dos direitos dos indivíduos. Com relação à justiça, todas as profissionais consideram que ensinam este valor moral em suas práticas pedagógicas. A respeito das motivações para esta prática, averiguamos que as professoras ensinam a justiça principalmente pelo fato de essa ser uma responsabilidade da escola. Por sua vez, quanto aos procedimentos de ensino da justiça, constatamos que a maioria deles trata de meios considerados como verbal impositivo e ação impositiva, isto é, estão embasados em práticas impositivas. Ademais, grande parte dos procedimentos está embasada exclusivamente na linguagem oral das docentes. A maioria das participantes justifica os procedimentos adotados no ensino da justiça tendo como foco o aluno, ou seja, tratam de práticas que possuem como embasamento os educandos. Porém, quando analisamos os métodos empregados pelas entrevistadas, constatamos que a maior parte deles diz respeito a métodos com o uso da imposição, o que pode não favorecer os procedimentos ditos ativos e, provavelmente, o desenvolvimento moral dos alunos. Com relação aos dados encontrados acerca dos anos escolares pesquisados, destacamos que as docentes que lecionam para o 5º ano mencionam mais procedimentos com base em práticas impositivas. Por fim, vale dizer que as participantes de 1º ano são as que mais justificaram os procedimentos com foco no aluno. De maneira geral, os dados de nossa pesquisa mostram que apesar de as concepções de justiça das participantes possuírem predominância de características da moral autônoma, a maior parte dos procedimentos utilizados por elas no ensino do aludido valor pode não favorecer o desenvolvimento da autonomia nos alunos, pois é embasada em práticas impositivas. Com este estudo, esperamos contribuir para que políticas públicas sejam implantadas visando à melhoria da qualidade da educação em valores morais no contexto escolar, notadamente no que diz respeito ao ensino da justiça. Assim, ressaltamos a necessidade de trabalhos contínuos de ensino da justiça, pensados e programados para desenvolver indivíduos autônomos
In this study, we dedicate ourselves to investigate the judgments of teachers on the teaching of the moral value of justice in their pedagogical practices. Furthermore, we propose to check whether such practices are modified due to the school year for which the participant teaches. To do so, we interviewed 23 elementary school teachers, 11 teachers of 1st year and 12 of the 5th year, from public schools located in lower-class neighborhoods in the city of Vitória, Espírito Santo. We conducted individual interviews, according to the Piagetian clinical method. Data analysis was performed based on the theory of Piaget and the systematization proposed by Delval. We analyze the conceptions of justice of the teachers, the motivations for teaching justice and the procedures that the respondents consider they use to teach this moral value. The results support the view that the conception of justice of the teachers is mainly related to the issue of individual s rights. Regarding justice, all the professionals believe they teach this moral value in their pedagogical practices. Regarding the motivations for this practice, we noticed that the teachers teach justice mainly because this is a responsibility of the school. Meanwhile, about the procedures for teaching justice, we noticed that most of them are means considered as authoritative, verbally and in action, i.e., are grounded in imposing practices. Moreover, most of the procedures are based solely on the oral language of the teachers. Most participants justify the procedures adopted in the teaching of justice as focusing the student, i.e., dealing with practices that have as their basis the students. However, when we analyzed the methods used by the interviewees, we found that most of them concerns methods with the use of imposition, which may not favor the said active procedures and, probably the moral development of students. Regarding the data found on the school years studied, we emphasize that the teachers who teach the 5th grade mention more procedures based on imposing practices. Finally, it is worth saying that the participants of the 1st year are the ones who justified the most procedures with a focus on the student. In general, the data from our research show that although the conceptions of justice of the participants have predominant characteristics of autonomous morality, most of the procedures used by them in teaching the alluded value can not foster the development of autonomy in students, as they are grounded in imposing practices. With this study, we hope to contribute so that public policies are implemented in order to improve the quality of education in moral values in schools, especially regarding the teaching about justice. Thus, we emphasize the need for continuous education on the teaching of justice, designed and programmed to develop autonomous individuals
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Lynch, Tosca. "'Training the soul in excellence' : musical theory and practice in Plato's dialogues, between ethics and aesthetics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4290.
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This thesis offers a technically informed examination of Plato's pervasive, though not innocent, use of musical theory, practice and musical concepts more generally within the ambitious ethical project outlined in many of his dialogues: fostering the ‘excellence' of the soul. Starting from Republic 3, Chapter 1 will focus specifically on music stricto sensu in order to assess Plato's interpretation of the basic ‘building blocks' of musical performances, creating a core repertoire of musical concepts that will prepare the way to analyse Plato's use of musical terms or categories in areas that, at first sight, do not appear to be immediately connected to this art, such as politics, ethics and psychology. Chapter 2 examines a selection of passages from Laws 2 concerning the concept of musical beauty and its role in ethical education, demonstrating how Plato's definition is far from being moralistic and, instead, pays close attention to the technical performative aspects of dramatic musical representations. Chapter 3 looks first at the harmonic characterisation of the two central virtues of the ideal city, sophrosyne and dikaiosyne, showing how their musical depictions are not purely metaphoric: on the contrary, Plato exploited their cultural implications to emphasise the characteristics and the functions of these virtues in the ideal constitution. The second half of Chapter 3 analyses the Platonic portrayal of musical παρανομία, studying both its educational and psychological repercussions in the dialogue and in relations to contemporary Athenian musical practices. Chapter 4 looks at how different types of music may be used to create an inner harmonic order of passions in the soul in different contexts: the musical-mimetic education outlined in the Republic, the musical enhancement of the psychological energies in the members of the Chorus of Dionysus in the Laws, and finally the role of the aulos in the Symposium.
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Hendricks, Dorothea. "The promotion of moral development: a case study of teachers' perceptions and practices in a rural, primary school in the Western Cape." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7894_1256888519.
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This research was undertaken to explore teachers' perceptions and practices as mediators of morals and values. Schools have an important role to play in developing future citizens as moral beings. This is variously named citizenship education, character education, moral education, and values education.
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Koga, Viviane Terezinha. "Representações sociais dos alunos sobre as práticas de educação moral presentes em escolas estaduais." Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, 2017. http://tede2.uepg.br/jspui/handle/prefix/2427.
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A investigação teve como objetivo apresentar as representações sociais dos alunos do nono ano do ensino fundamental acerca das práticas de educação moral presentes em escolas estaduais. A escolha das quatro escolas participantes levou em conta três aspectos: a presença de problemas relacionados à moralidade, a ausência de iniciativas para enfrentar esses problemas e a localização periférica. A referida pesquisa teve inspiração etnográfica e caracteriza-se como qualiquantitativa. Para a sua fundamentação teórica foram utilizadas a Teoria das Representações Sociais, proposta por Moscovici e colaboradores, e a Teoria do Desenvolvimento Moral, proposta por Piaget. A coleta dos dados foi realizada mediante quatro estudos: 1) a coleta de 90 ocorrências em que são registrados os conflitos escolares; 2) a realização de 58 observações; 3) a aplicação de questionário para 359 alunos; 4) a realização de oito grupos focais, além de um estudo exploratório realizado com as pedagogas. Os dados foram analisados com o apoio dos softwares SPSS, EVOC, SIMI e ALCESTE e também pela análise de conteúdo e análise documental. Os resultados indicaram que os problemas morais estão presentes em todas as escolas investigadas e em nenhuma delas há iniciativas e/ou projetos próprios da escola para resolvê-los ou minimizá-los. Também se verificou que as ocorrências possuem, em sua maioria, registros com conteúdo moral, nas quais não há propostas para a resolução, havendo apenas encaminhamentos que consistem em conduzir o aluno de uma instância para outra superior. As observações realizadas evidenciaram aulas expositivas e atividades com cópia do quadro e do livro didático, além de diversos mecanismos de controle adotados de forma unilateral e autoritária pelos professores e gestores. A análise dos dados demonstrou ainda que os alunos representam as regras escolares a partir dos objetos celular, uniforme e do valor respeito, deixando indícios de que por vezes eles colocam no mesmo patamar regras convencionais e morais. Frente aos objetos há uma ambivalência, pois de um lado estão os aspectos normativos e de outro os aspectos funcionais das regras escolares. Já diante do valor há um consenso acerca da sua importância e necessidade para o convívio escolar. Com relação às representações sociais observadas nos grupos focais, os alunos dão indicativos das práticas morais desejadas por eles, como uma escola mais democrática, com diálogo, respeito mútuo e que permita a participação dos alunos no processo de elaboração das regras e nas tomadas de decisão na escola.
This investigation aimed at analyzing the social representations that students in the ninth year of elementary school present in relation to the moral education practices in state schools. The choice of the four schools that took part in the study took into account three aspects: the presence of problems associated to morality, the absence of initiatives to tackle these problems and these schools peripheral location. The research was ethnographic and quali-quantitative. The theoretical background was based on the Social Representation Theory by Moscovici and co-workers, and the Moral Development Theory, proposed by Piaget. The data collection was carried out by developing four studies: 1) the collection of 90 occurrences in which school conflicts were registered; 2) 58 observations; 3) the application of a questionnaire to 359 students; 4) work with eight focal groups, and a exploratory study with the educators. The data analysis was aided by the software SPSS, EVOC, SIMI and ALCESTE and also by the content and document analyses. The results indicated that moral problems existed in all schools under investigation and none of them had initiatives and∕or their own projects to solve or minimize them. Most of the occurrences were also seen to contain moral content register, for which there were no remedies, and the students were only sent from one authority to the one immediately above. The observations carried out evidenced teacher centered lessons and activities based on copy from either the board or the book, in addition to several control mechanisms adopted in a unilateral and authoritarian manner by the teachers and educators. The data analysis also demonstrated that the students’ representation of school rules involve mainly objects such as the cell phone, uniform and the value respect showing that many times they place at the same level conventional and moral rules. Regarding the objects, there is certain ambivalence, since on the one hand there are the normative aspects and on the other hand there are the functional aspects of school rules. In relation to the value respect, there is a consensus about its importance and need for good school coexistence. The social representations found in the focal groups revealed that students show some of the moral practices desired by the group such as a more democratic school, with dialogue, mutual respect and that allows students’ participation in the processes of elaborating rules and the school decision making.
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Hendricks, Estelle. "Good practice guidelines for improving educator morale." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1247.
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The morale of educators in certain schools is very low. From the literature review I concluded that not all schools experience low morale in the same way. There are different factors impacting on the morale of educators at different schools. In this study, the causes of low educator morale, indicators of low morale, the importance of high morale and how low morale can be dealt with were addressed in order to provide guidelines to improve low morale. An empirical study was conducted and 2 schools in the Northern Areas of Port Elizabeth were used in this case study to establish to what measure the educators are exposed to the abovementioned variables. The data was analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. South Africa is divided into different demographic areas. The majority of people living in the communities where these schools are located are poor, unskilled, unemployed and the crime levels are very high. The socio-economic context within which these schools are located also has an impact on the morale of the educators at these schools and it affects their working lives. Educators, SMTs and principals took part in the empirical study so that their views can be compared and to facilitate the researcher to make recommendations on improving low educator morale. The research outcomes were analysed and deductions, recommendations and a need for further research were given. The empirical and literature study emphasised that the morale of educators is low in the schools and this morale status impacts on learners’ achievements, the health of the educators and the health of the institution. The educators in this study ranked their own morale status as low and some of the causes of the low morale according to the empirical study are lack of resources, ill-disciplined learners, uninvolved parents and an ineffective management style of the principal.
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Houchard, Morgen A. "Principal Leadership, Teacher Morale, and Student Achievement in Seven Schools in Mitchell County, North Carolina." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1081.
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The purpose of this study was to understand and measure principal leadership practices and teacher morale as it relates to student achievement in Mitchell County at two elementary schools, four middle schools, and one high school. First, a review of the related literature attempted to define teacher morale as much as possible given that it is an ever-changing individual characteristic. Second, the researcher tried to understand teacher morale and distinguish between high and low elements and characteristics of teacher morale. Third, the researcher examined the difficult task of measuring the morale of teachers in public education today. Fourth, an attempt was made to understand what role school leaders play in the development of teacher morale and how their specific behavior affects the morale of teachers. Lastly, student achievement was reviewed using the North Carolina End-Of-Grade tests. All of these variables were examined to determine if there was a connection or pattern to high or low student achievement based on teacher morale.
This quantitative study was conducted using a survey-design method. The Purdue Teacher Opinionaire was used to measure factors contributing to teacher morale. The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) was chosen to measure leadership practices that best supports great accomplishments in organizations. The North Carolina End-Of-Grade/End-Of-Course tests were used to measure student achievement.
Overall results for Mitchell County Schools showed that there was a moderately high level of teacher morale. Satisfaction with teaching led the way in contributing to higher morale whereas the issue of teacher salary was found to lower morale. School leaders in Mitchell County proved to inspire a common vision as well as encourage teaching from the heart more so than found in existing research. Teachers from two of the seven schools rated their principals higher in leadership practices than the principals themselves; this is contrary to presented research. Many significant relationships existed between perceived leadership practices and teacher morale factors. All factors of teacher morale as measured by the Purdue Teacher Opinionaire had a positive correlation with the End-Of-Grade/End-Of-Course test scores.
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Zapio, Ceres Chiarotto. "Procedimentos e materiais que visam a melhoria do clima sociomoral e autorregula??o: um estudo em uma sala do 2? ano do ensino fundamental." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica de Campinas, 2017. http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/985.
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Morality can be understood as rules of conduct that characterize the impositions and prohibitions that a person puts on himself. But for the person to define the best ways to be, to act is necessary for it to develop morally. Morality requires a personal, cultural and social work, is not constructed in solitary mode, it takes into account historical and cultural elements. Thus, the school is an environment conducive to study and understand the construction, evolution and inference of moral development. The ideal conditions for the moral development there is a good climate sociomoral. It is assumed that the practices carried out inside the school will be favorable to a morally balanced environment that may favor the development of autonomy. A good strategy to use is to consider the concepts of self-regulation of learning, which basically consists of a process in which the subjects set goals that guide their learning and try to control and monitor their cognitions, motivation and behavior. This research aimed to investigate the procedures and materials that contribute to the improvement of sociomoral climate and pedagogical practices related to the construction of morality and self-regulation in a room of the 2nd year of elementary school. And specific objectives: (a) identify what are the procedures and materials conducive to improving the climate sociomoral that the teacher uses in the daily life of a 2nd class year of elementary school and how they are used in everyday teaching; (B) examine, together with the teacher of this class, procedures and materials made available and the ways in which children interact with them; (C) plan together with the teacher, the construction of new moral practices, including children's books, encouraging the active participation of children; (D) recording the use of these new practices in everyday school life; (E) verify, together with the teacher, the ways in which children use these new procedures and materials, causing them to build autonomy and self-regulation; and (f) evaluate whether there are changes on the self-regulation for the monitoring of students. This is a descriptive, qualitative, being held in a Primary School in a municipality in the state of S?o Paulo. Participated in this research a teacher of the class of 2nd year of a Primary School in a town in the state of S?o Paulo and his students (children aged 7 and 8 years old). The instruments used were: observation of everyday school life; meetings with the teacher; teaching narratives; Inventory Self-Regulated Learning Processes (IPAA). Data were analyzed from the content analysis and the analysis of the IPAA instrument in Microsoft excel. The results indicated that there was a significant change related to self-regulation and also to sociomoral climate. Children, who were not so keen to learn or had difficulty attending classes and studying at home, started to do so. A room in which the teacher always solved the conflicts and used coercive procedures, passed the active participation of the students abandoning such methods. It is expected that the research is converted into articles that discuss the sociomoral climate, moral development, and its implications, affecting mainly the teachers to reflect on their training.
Moralidade pode ser compreendida como regras de conduta que caracterizam as imposi??es e proibi??es que uma pessoa coloca sobre si. Mas para que a pessoa possa definir quais as melhores formas de ser e de agir ? preciso que ela se desenvolva moralmente. A moral necessita de um trabalho pessoal, cultural e social, n?o ? constru?da de modo solit?rio, leva-se em conta elementos hist?ricos e culturais. Assim, a escola ? um ambiente favor?vel para se estudar e compreender a constru??o, evolu??o e infer?ncia do desenvolvimento moral. As condi??es ideais para que haja o desenvolvimento moral ? um bom clima sociomoral. Pressup?e-se que as pr?ticas realizadas dentro da escola ser?o favor?veis a um ambiente moralmente equilibrado que possa favorecer o desenvolvimento da autonomia. Uma boa estrat?gia a ser utilizada ? considerar os conceitos da autorregula??o da aprendizagem, a qual consiste basicamente em um processo no qual os sujeitos estabelecem objetivos que norteiam suas aprendizagens e tentam controlar e monitorar suas cogni??es, motiva??o e comportamentos. A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar, em um processo colaborativo entre pesquisador e docente, o uso de procedimentos e materiais que contribuam para a melhoria do clima sociomoral e das pr?ticas pedag?gicas relacionadas com a constru??o da moralidade e autorregula??o. E por objetivos espec?ficos: (a) identificar quais s?o os procedimentos e materiais prop?cios para a melhoria do clima sociomoral que a professora utiliza no cotidiano de uma turma 2? ano do ensino fundamental e como eles s?o utilizados no cotidiano pedag?gico; (b) examinar, juntamente com a professora desta turma, os procedimentos e materiais disponibilizados e os modos pelos quais as crian?as interagem com eles; (c) planejar conjuntamente com a professora, a constru??o de novas pr?ticas morais, incluindo livros infantis, estimulando a participa??o ativa das crian?as; (d) registrar a utiliza??o destas novas pr?ticas no cotidiano escolar; (e) verificar, juntamente com a professora, os modos pelos quais as crian?as utilizam estes novos procedimentos e materiais, levando-os a constru??o da autonomia e autorregula??o; e, (f) avaliar se h? mudan?as relativas ? autorregula??o e ao clima sociomoral durante o acompanhamento dos alunos. Trata-se de uma pesquisa descritiva, de car?ter qualitativo, sendo realizada em uma Escola de Ensino Fundamental de um munic?pio no interior do Estado de S?o Paulo. Participaram desta pesquisa uma professora da turma do 2? ano de uma Escola de Ensino Fundamental de uma escola municipal em uma cidade do interior do estado de S?o Paulo e seus alunos (crian?as de 7 e 8 anos de idade). Os instrumentos utilizados foram: observa??o do cotidiano escolar; reuni?es com a professora; narrativas da docente; Invent?rio de Processos de Auto-Regula??o da Aprendizagem (IPAA). Os dados foram analisados a partir da an?lise de conte?do e para a an?lise do instrumento IPAA, o programa da Microsoft Excel. Os resultados indicaram que houve um mudan?a significativa relacionada ? autorregula??o e tamb?m ao clima sociomoral. As crian?as, que anteriormente n?o se interessavam tanto em aprender ou tinham dificuldades em prestar aten??o nas aulas e estudar em casa, passaram a faz?-lo. Uma sala na qual a professora sempre resolvia os conflitos e utilizava procedimentos coercitivos, passou a participa??o ativa dos alunos abandonando tais m?todos. ? esperado que a pesquisa se converta em artigos que discutam o clima sociomoral, desenvolvimento moral, e suas implica??es, atingindo principalmente os docentes para que reflitam sobre sua forma??o.
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Fishman, Christine A. "Making Way for Equity: Elementary Principals' Interpretations of Equity." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1269042026.
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Sharkey, Garry. "An exercise in how experienced expatriate EFL teachers' practical wisdom can be used to problematise Saudi Arabian ELC syllabi." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/18290.
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In the past 30 years there has been a steady and growing appreciation in the literature of the importance and value of teachers' practical wisdom (TPW) - or phronesis as it is also known - to further an understanding of classroom practice and of the need to find ways to help teachers generate and share their perspectives with others. Nevertheless, the potential of this kind of knowledge (understood by Aristotle to be both practical and moral in its orientation) to contribute valuable insights to educational debates has still to be realised. Rather, educational decisions about policy and practice in many contexts (whether at a national or institutional level) are still largely driven by theoretical and technical knowledge perspectives and teacher practical wisdom perspectives are still often under-valued and remain under-represented in educational literature. One of the main reasons for this put forward in this thesis is the tendency in much of the literature to see this form of knowledge as classroom bound rather than to realise the ways in which it can inform broader pedagogical discussions. Bearing all of the above in mind, the aim of the study reported in this thesis into the TPW of 14 experienced expatriate English as a foreign language teachers (EEEFLTs) working in English language centres (ELCs) across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is threefold. Its first aim is to provide a platform for the EEEFLTs to demonstrate the contribution their TPW can potentially make in addressing syllabus related issues in the KSA ELCs they have worked and, in doing so, show how the use of TPW is not confined to the classroom. Its second aim is to increase the visibility of the participants' TPW and thus raise awareness of the importance of research into TPW and to provide a model for how this can be conducted. The study's final aim is to provide a deeper understanding of the nature of TPW. Located in the interpretive paradigm, this study uses a TPW-friendly methodology to investigate TPW: interpretive phronetic educational research (IPER), which approaches and conducts educational research through a moral and practical problem-driven lens. This understanding drives the study's methodology and all stages of its data collection and analysis and the methods used in both. The goal of such methods is an epistemological one to generate TPW whilst empowering it also by highlighting its validity and how it is easily articulated - and thus captured - and not confined to the classroom. To assist with its articulation and capture, the study employs a process defined as Problematisation: a four-stage process consisting of reflection, problematisation, deliberation and articulation which drives and shapes the semi-structured interviews the study employs and the secondary research questions that inform the primary research question. The study concludes that the EEEFLTs use their TPW as a lens (that has 12 qualities) through which to view KSA ELC syllabi and, in doing so, identify many problems with the syllabi and subsequent consequences and suggest solutions to address both. These problems, consequences and solutions have been organised under six prominent categories that represent six main problem areas to emerge from the data that suggest the syllabi are teacher, textbook and test-centred, top-down, teacher-proof and time-driven. These categories represent six problem areas that in turn reflect the problematic, negative and disempowering context from which the data informing such categories and themes have been drawn. In this study, TPW is considered disempowered knowledge as a result of the disempowering context within which it has been acquired and is used. Previous TPW studies have been conducted in more positive settings and have perhaps for this reason not focused on TPW's disempowerment. In contrast, this study takes on a much more political role as it explores TPW's disempowerment in the KSA ELC context as well as in the broader context of academia and the literature. TPW's lack of visibility in TESOL and education has several implications because unless TPW achieves greater visibility, it may fade into extinction and its potential may never be realised. This study has been conducted in an attempt to prevent this happening.
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Star, Daniel. "Beyond moral particularism : moral principles in theory and practice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442913.
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Souza, Lívia Cristina Pereira de. "Conceptualização e ação: um retrato discente da sala de aula. Uma abordagem sociocognitiva." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2008. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/3457.
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O presente estudo tem como objeto uma prática lingüística convencionalizada como um gênero institucional de oralidade – a aula. Nossa agenda consiste na tarefa de desvelar como o aluno – (a) conceptualiza essa cena escolar, (b) quais suas práticas efetivas e (c) qual a normatização idealizada para esta cena. Para tanto, nossa investigação tem como foco o discurso destes atores, coletado mediante instrumento escrito (questionário) em um cenário específico – uma escola pública do interior de Minas Gerais. Assim, é através do DIZER dos alunos, de seus enunciados lingüísticos presentes em seus discursos que nos propomos a investigar seus papéis dentro da sala de aula. Nossa premissa, sustentada pelo paradigma sociocognitivista, é de que a linguagem é um guia poderoso no processo de busca de desvelamento da forma como os sujeitos concebem, categorizam e vivem experiências sociais, culturais e interacionais. No exercício analítico do discurso, nosso aporte teórico fundamental é a Lingüística Cognitiva, ancorado nos trabalhos de Lakoff (1987, 1999) Processos de categorização e conceptualização; Fillmore (1977, 1982a, 1982b, 2003) Semântica de frames; Hebert H. Clark (1996) A linguagem como forma de ação conjunta, além dos estudos em Antropologia Evolucionista de Tomasello (2003). Nosso propósito fundamental é compreender uma questão educacional; daí a necessidade de uma interpretação dos dados discursivos com vistas ao desvelamento de comportamentos dos sujeitos, enquanto falantes, usuários de práticas lingüísticas interacionais, mas também enquanto sujeitos com necessidades humanas, valores éticos e morais. Nossas conclusões afirmam que, embora haja uma grande contradição entre o discurso sobre as práticas e as reais práticas discentes em sala de aula, o que há é uma não-naturalização das práticas negativas, do conflito existente entre alunos e professores. Frente à tal contradição, faz-se necessária, pois, uma educação sistemática da oralidade nas salas de aula, objetivando a construção de uma ética-cidadã.
The main of this study is a linguistic practice conventionalized as an oral institutional gender – the lesson. Our purpose awakes the way how the student (a) conceptualizes this scholastic scene, what are his effective practices and (c) what is the normatization idealized for this scene. For so much, our investigation deals with these actors’ speech, collected by means of a written task (questionary) in a specific scene – a public school from the interior – Minas Gerais. Because of the students saying, also their linguistic statements which are present in their speeches, we propose to investigate their role in the classroom. Our premise, sustained by sociocognivism paradigm, points out that language is a powerful instrument in the process of how people conceive, categorize and live social, cultural and interacional experiences. In analytic exercise from the speech, our theorical and fundamental support is Cognitive Linguistic, based on Lakoff”s works (1987, 1999) Process of categorization and conceptualization; Fillmore (1977; 1982a; 1982b, 2003) Semantic of frames; Tomasello’s Evolucionist Antropology (2003). Our fundamental aim is to understand an educational question, that is the necessity of an interpretation of the speech considering people’s behavior and their awakening, as speakers users of interactional linguistic with human necessities and ethics and moral values. Our conclusions affirm that although there is a contradiction between the speech and students’ reality in class, what counts is a non-naturalization of negative practices, about the conflict between students and teachers. In spite of this contradiction, it’s necessary a systematic education of the orality in class, in order to construct a ethic-citizen.
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Kilje, Bim. "Quests for knowledge and social mobility : Vocational and on-the-job-training as navigational tactics in the urban labour market of Sierra Leone." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-433784.
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This ethnographic study investigates the experiences of those learning tailoring and trading in Freetown, Sierra Leone via apprenticeships, other on-the-job training or Technical and Vocational Education and Training programs (TVET). I examine these forms of occupational training by investigating the practices underway, how knowledge transmission occurs, as well as why learners engage with and what they get out of these activities. I consider how the job learners utilise occupational training as a manner of increasing social, cultural and economic capital in Bourdieu's sense of those terms to navigate the urban labour market. I find that the learners aspire fundamentally to social mobility and a sense of self-worth. To achieve this, they use four main tactics: flexibility, reframing, co-operation and diligence. However, I find all tactics are developed in response to greatly circumscribed opportunities to obtain a good and stable income, and increased social status, due to structural inequality. Local political neoliberal discourse on youth unemployment emphasising diligence, belies these inequities and the limited ways in which social mobility is within the individual’s control. Hence, I argue, a focus on training without addressing structural inequality is inadequate. As the training usually does not lead to paid and reliable employment, I argue it serves more fundamentally as a form of moral education and a vehicle for personal and social development. I argue it helps develop certain personal moral traits and alleviate society's concern about immoral "idle youth". Further, that it helps develop what I term resilience capital; that is, the hard-working and stubborn disposition developed by reframing previous experiences of adversity, which may later assist the individual in acquiring other forms of capital. Although not its main focus, this study also seeks to contribute to academic scholarship through developing our understanding of knowledge transmission. I find that the process of knowledge transmission is fundamentally social and shaped by hierarchy, subjective positions of power, the inculcation of moral and ethical values, and more dependent for success on various forms of capital than it might at first appear.
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Carroll, Mark J. "Physical Therapists' Perception of Risk of Violating Laws and Rules Governing the Practice of Physical Therapy and/or Their Personal Moral and Ethical Values When Failing to Provide Treatment for an Uninsured or Underinsured Patient." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1193091796.
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Dabbagh, Sorush H. "Moral reasons : particularism, patterns and practice." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2006. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/52298/.
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This is the study of the extent of the patternability of the reason-giving behaviour of morally relevant features in different ethical contexts. Whether or not the way in which a morally relevant feature contributes to the moral evaluation of different cases is generalis able is examined in this research. I argue in favour of a core and constitutive modest-generalistic theme, according to which there are general patterns of word use, to which the reason-giving behaviour of moral vocabulary in different contexts is answerable. To this end, I reject the constitutive particularistic claim which holds that the way in which a morally relevant feature behaves in different cases is fully context-dependent. An account drawn from Wittgenstein with regard to the nature of concepts which emphasises the key role of the concept 'practice' is presented to give an account of how the reason-giving behaviour of a morally relevant feature in different contexts is answerable to general patterns of word use. Ross's ethics is introduced as an example of the modest-generalistic position. To substantiate this modest-generalistic position, an apparent dilemma is presented for particularists, e.g. Dancy. In order to resolve the second horn of the dilemma, which is an example of a general problem with which any generalistic account is confronted, the account drawn from Wittgenstein with regard to the nature of concepts is again used. Finally, a distinction between the first order and the second order account of the concept 'practice' is presented to give a more plausible account of the concept 'practice' which has an indispensable role in the Wittgensteinian account.
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Denost, Hélène. "L'évaluation des pratiques professionnelles, un espace de réflexion à la croisée de la réflexivité et de la délibération éthique : implications pédagogiques en odontologie." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCB218/document.
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L'évaluation des pratiques professionnelles (EPP) est venue compléter les dispositifs de formation continue depuis la loi « Hôpital Patient Santé Territoire » de 2009. La question s'est alors posée de la contribution de l'évaluation des pratiques professionnelles au développement professionnel continu (DPC) en Odontologie. Répondre à cette interrogation nécessite de s'interroger sur la définition du développement professionnel continu. Ce travail de recherche aborde une réflexion double : - sur les fondements théoriques et les implications pédagogiques d'une visée réflexive de l'Évaluation des Pratiques Professionnelles en odontologie dans une perspective de développement professionnel continu ; - sur les enjeux éthiques induits dans la construction des projets pédagogiques. La loi de 2009 inscrit le développement professionnel en tant que dispositif de formation. Or en recherche pédagogique, le développement professionnel s'inscrit dans une perspective de développement des compétences et de construction identitaire du professionnel. Le mouvement pédagogique de professionnalisation de la formation en santé fait mention de compétences attendues et de pratiques réflexives. Dans les débats théoriques et politiques, il est peu question de définition de l'évaluation au-delà des exercices de qualification de « l'acte professionnel », et encore moins d'une réflexion sur la dimension éthique des démarches d'évaluation dans le processus de professionnalisation. L'absence de cadres théoriques stabilisés a conduit à une méthodologie de recherche de type inductive: un volet théorique fondé sur une stratégie d'analyse des écrits théoriques, et un volet exploratoire auprès des responsables pédagogiques de formation initiale et continue en odontologie. La synthèse des deux volets, en dépassant l'opposition théorie et pratique, suggère une relecture de la visée réflexive de l'évaluation des pratiques professionnelles, et replace la complexité d'un processus de questionnement de l'agir professionnel dans l'exercice de la normativité médicaleWith the "Hospital, Patients, Health and Territories" (HPST) Act of 2009, the Evaluation of Professional Practices (EPP) has supplemented the continuing education program. It has since become important to question the contribution of the evaluation of professional practices in Continuing Professional Development (CPD), particularly in the field of Dentistry. However answering this question requires us to define continuing professional development. This research tackles two complementary aspects: first, the theoretical and pedagogical implications behind the Evaluation of Professional Practices in dentistry in a continuing professional development perspective; - and, second, the ethical issues implied in the construction of educational projects. The 2009 legislation considers professional development as a training mechanism. In educational research, however, professional development is understood as part of building the identity and skills set of the professional, whereas expected skills and reflective practices are linked to the movement of professionalization in health education. In theoretical and political debates, the notion of evaluation is overlooked or restrained to the "professional act", as well as any reflection on the ethical dimension of the evaluation procedures during the process of professionalization. The lack of established theoretical frameworks has led to an inductive type of research: a theoretical part based on analysis of theoretical writings, and an exploratory component among education officials in charge of initial and continuing education in dentistry. The synthesis of these two parts, beyond the opposition of theory and practice, suggests that a fresh look is needed in relation to the evaluation of professional practices and reflective practice, and puts the complexity of the process of questioning the professional action at the heart of the exercise of medical normativity
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Owen, Roderic Lewis. "Liberal education and moral development: an integrated model of moral education." W&M ScholarWorks, 1985. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539618618.
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Two central questions are raised: at a college level, what should be our educational goals and methods in the realm of moral development? and, what curricular or instructional model is most logically consistent and ethically acceptable with the mission and philosophy of liberal education? The major purpose of this study is to answer these questions and develop one reasonable, clearly defined model of college-level moral education.;As a normative inquiry into the goals of moral education, this philosophical study rests on the assumption that statements of moral value can be rationally understood and taught and is guided by an awareness of the major findings in social scientific research on moral development and education and practical use of the conceptual analysis of educational terminology.;In order to answer the central questions, it is argued that the ideal of liberal education (its inherent logical and ethical criteria as well as a developed set of explicit curricular goals) can help determine legitimate curricular goals and methods that are focused on moral development. An extended definition of liberal education is developed through reference to widely accepted historical statements and examination of contemporary principles and goals.;Five contemporary models of undergraduate moral education are next identified and described in detail: values clarification, wholistic, humanities, normative ethics, and cognitive-developmental. The specific criteria for liberal education are then critically applied, evaluating the respective strengths and weaknesses of each model. It is argued that the normative ethics and cognitive-developmental models are most closely connected with the historical aims and contemporary goals of liberal education.;The study concludes with a detailed analysis of the two selected models. Reasons for their integration are developed, pedagogical methods and resources which emerge from their combination are outlined, and a summary of this approach to selecting and developing an acceptable model of college-level moral education is offered. In closing, it is stated that college students can legitimately be taught to reflect on morality, to be committed to the rational analysis and selection of moral values and lifestyles, and to act in accordance with their convictions.
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Phillips, Glynn Stuart. "Moral education and the nature of moral judgment." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/74566/.
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A vigorous debate is taking place about whether school pupils should be morally educated. Opinion appears to be sharply divided both about whether this is possible, and even if it is, what it would be. Some claim that schools have a duty to teach pupils 'universal' values. Others reject this, claiming that this is based on a misconception of what a moral judgment is. This school of thought takes moral judgment to be in a broad sense subjective or relative, and bases its doubts about the enterprise of moral education on these conceptions. Such scepticism about moral education, I suggest, is indicative of a more general view that unless claims made in a subject or activity can be objective and objectively assessed, they are not a fit vehicle for educational activity. Subjective or relativistic conceptions about moral judgment are ways of doubting whether claims made in morality can be objective and so can be a proper domain of educational activity. These claims about how we understand the concept of moral judgment, are philosophical claims. To get to grips with these positions, I use the resources of metaethics to examine them. I suggest that any metaethical theory about the nature of moral judgment can be assessed by four tests, which are laid out in chapter 1. These are whether a theory (a) accounts for our basic moral convictions, (b) explains how we should understand the nature of moral disagreement, (c) explains what kind of knowledge is moral knowledge or what kind of justification is moral justification, and (d) explains the connection between moral judgment and moral action. In chapters, 2-7, I examine the claims of emotivism, universal prescriptivism, two versions of subjectivism, relativism, moral realism and, more briefly, ethical naturalism to provide a satisfactory philosophical account of the nature of moral judgment. In the concluding chapter, I draw out the implications of these different metaethical theories for moral education. I argue that emotivism, standard subjectivism, and relativism, the metaethical theories upon which sceptical views about the possibility of moral education are based, do not do justice to those aspects of our moral experience which form the basis for my four tests, and do not support the case that moral education is not possible. I go on to argue that we can deepen our understanding of what it is to be morally educated and what it is to engage in moral education, by making judicious selections from the ideas and claims in universal prescriptivism and moral realism.
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Hagen, Daniel Scott. "Moral expertise and moral education : a Socratic account." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/84417.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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What is virtue and can it be taught? These questions preoccupied Socrates and this dissertation offers a Socratic answer to them. In Chapter 1 ("Virtue as Expert Moral Knowledge") I develop and defend a novel interpretation of the Socratic thesis that virtue is a kind of knowledge. I argue that the relevant kind of knowledge of interest to Socrates is expert moral knowledge or moral expertise-a complex epistemic state that integrates practical knowledge, theoretical knowledge, and self-knowledge. This account unifies several seemingly disparate epistemological threads that run through Plato's Socratic dialogues, it helps us resolve other interpretive questions surrounding Socrates and Socratic philosophy, and it is philosophically attractive in its own right. In Chapter 2 ("Socrates the Educator and Socratic Education") I confront a puzzle about Socrates' status as a teacher. It's natural to think of him as one, yet (1) Socrates persistently denies that he is or ever was anyone's teacher, (2) he seems to think knowledge of some sort is necessary for being a teacher while disavowing knowledge himself, and (3) he argues on occasion that virtue-the thing he took to be most important of all-cannot be taught. I use the account from Chapter 1 to resolve this puzzle. I conclude the chapter by considering some of the further benefits of Socratic education and some of the limitations it faces. In Chapter 3 ("Moral Deference and Moral Development") I explore the interaction between expertise and education by examining Socratic policies regarding each. In particular, I consider how Socrates thinks we ought to interact with moral experts, and I consider how he thinks we ought to promote our own moral development (in light of the account of virtue from Chapter 1). I argue that while there appears to be a trade-off between deference and development, Socrates' characteristic method of inquiry, elenchus, offers a way to reconcile the two. I bookend the chapter with a discussion of some recent work in moral epistemology on the puzzle of pure moral deference. The Socratic perspective on deference and development supplies a new diagnosis of this puzzle.
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Rima, Samuel D. "Spiritual capital : a moral core for economic practice." Thesis, University of Buckingham, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.601452.
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The thesis of Spiritual Capital Theory: A Moral Core for Economic Practice is that the current prevailing paradigm of neoliberal capitalism has become incapable of solving the world's recurring economic crises and, in fact, has instead become one of the primary causes of these recurring crises. The reason for this, according to this dissertation, is that the practice of neoliberal capitalism has been dislodged from a concern for social ontology and is no longer guided by any discernable moral core capable of mitigating its potential negative effects. The fact that neoliberal capitalist practice has become rooted, almost exclusively, in empirical, positivistic, mathematical science has further exacerbated this current state of economic affairs. In response to this problem the research conducted for this thesis explored nascent concepts of spiritual capital in order to develop a more economically oriented theory of spiritual capital that might serve as a moral core for economic practice and re-root it in social ontology. As such, Spiritual capital involves economic practice that is characterized by the leveraging of other forms of capital at an actor or organization's disposal with the conscious intention of promoting social and economic justice and advancing the common good. When an individual or organization leverages their natural, human, social, financial, manufactured, intellectual or other forms of capital with the specific intent of promoting social and economic justice and advancing the common good, they are investing spiritual capital. In this way spiritual capital has the potential to serve as a moral core for economic practice and re-root it in social ontology.
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Park, Sungjoo. "Moral Education and Sport." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1268240015.
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Vokey, Daniel James. "Reasons of the heart, moral objectivity and moral education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ28076.pdf.
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Abbott, Owen. "The social self, social relations, and social (moral) practice." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30117.
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The primary task of this thesis is to explain what the relationship between social practice and the socially emergent self is, and to concurrently explain why this relationship is of significance to an accurate theory of social practice itself. A subsequent aim of this is to explain how the socially emergent self can be used to account for individual engagement in moral practices. Building on George Herbert Mead, it is argued that the social process through which the self emerges moulds the individual’s capacity to engage with social practice. It is argued that combining Mead’s theory of the socially emergent self with relational sociology provides a theoretical framework that can account for how intersubjective and historically situated social practices are taken on by the individual, to the extent that she can engage in such practices both reflectively and pre-reflectively. What is more, this theoretical synthesis is able to account for how social practices are engaged with in an incredibly routine and ‘ordinary’ manner, while also accounting for individual variation in this engagement. This theory is then applied to moral practices. It is contended that individual engagement in moral practice is not altogether different from engagement in social practice generally, and thus the theory offered here also accounts for how individuals are able to engage in moral practice in both a routine and an individualised manner.
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Torrance, David Alan. "Christian kinship : relatedness in Christian practice and moral thought." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/269744.
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Ideas of kinship play a significant role in structuring everyday life, and yet kinship has been neglected in Christian ethics, as well as moral philosophy and bioethics. Attention has been paid in these disciplines to the ethics of ‘family,’ but little regard has been paid to the fact that kinship is not a given, but is culturally contingent. The thesis seeks to remedy the neglect in recent Christian theological ethics by drawing on resources from the history of Christian thought and practice. It uses social anthropology both to unsettle the accounts of kinship used in Christian ethics, and to expose elements in Christian traditions of thought and practice relating to kinship. Notions of shared bodily substance, the house, gender and personhood recur cross-culturally in giving shape to kinship. By examining these four notions as they inform Christian thought and practice, a theological account is developed. Chapters dedicated to each of these four attempt to provide, in the first instance, a descriptive account of how the notion has structured Christian thought and practice in relation to kinship. Each chapter then turns, in the second instance, to a critical mode, offering a theological treatment of the chapter topic as it bears on kinship. The thesis concludes that kinship in Christ should be considered normatively primary for the Christian, but also that there are ways in which Christians have honoured this kinship in Christ by organising and playing out kinship on a smaller scale. In detailing the distinctively Christian organising principles that structure some practices of kinship ‘in miniature,’ another common practice – the special privileging of the blood tie in structuring kinship – is singled out for critique.
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Cooper, James A., and res cand@acu edu au. "The Cognitive Anatomy of Moral Understanding and the Moral Education Question: A study in the philosophy of moral education." Australian Catholic University. School of Religious Education, 2008. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp180.20112008.
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This study investigates the problem of contemporary interpretations of the moral education question, as informed by rival moral-philosophical and epistemological traditions. In this study, the moral education question is taken to mean, ‘What educational form and content may best assist students in becoming ethically minded and morally good people?’ Accordingly, this necessitates a consideration of what is meant by morality and what are the central characteristics of the moral life (i.e. moral philosophical perspectives), as well as how such accounts of morality are seen to relate to the educational aims of knowledge and intellectual development (i.e. underlying epistemology).This study shows that current interpretations of moral education (as efforts to ‘teach values’) are predominantly informed by the ‘juridical ethical tradition,’which, in turn, is underpinned by a distinctive epistemology (or ‘Juridicalism’).The thesis proposes that Juridicalism is philosophically contestable because it leads to a partially distorted conception of the moral life and hence of moral education. Generally, by regarding the cognitive dimensions of moral thought and action as separate from and independent of the emotional-volitional dimensions, Juridicalism is an obstacle to understanding the proper moral educational task of schools. Notably, Juridicalism leads to a questionable emphasis on the importance of ‘values’, as expressed in generally agreed rules and principles, as opposed to particular and substantive moral judgements.A critique of Juridicalism is developed, focussing on its underlying conception of human reason as inspired by a distinctly Modern mind-body/world dualism argue that the fragmented and reductive epistemology of Juridicalism signals the need for a richer and more variegated theory of cognition, marked specifically by an integrated anthropology and substantive theory of reason. Further, such an epistemology is located in the realist philosophy of classical antiquity particularly within the Aristotelian tradition. I propose a defence of what I call ‘Classical Realism’, in contrast to Juridicalism, highlighting its distinctively integrated account of the mind/soul and body/world relationship, and substantive conception of practical rationality or moral understanding. Classical Realism also makes central the notion of knowledge as ‘vision’ in order to explain how the rational and affective dimensions of human nature come together in moral thought and action. Finally, the moral education question is reconsidered in light of the visional ethical perspective emerging from Classical Realism. In this light I interpret the moral education question as a matter of nurturing the (intellectual) capacity for and habit of correct vision and, relatedly, moral judgement. Further, this task is shown to be vitally connected with the school’s focus on developing knowledge and the intellect through the teaching of traditional academic and practical disciplines. Some initial comments are made concerning the pedagogical implications of such an interpretation, while some associated challenges and questions for further research are highlighted.
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Courte, Lisa J. "Engaging the moral imagination through metaphor : implications for moral education." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21203.
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The first contemporary approaches to moral education emphasize, moral reasoning skills and value analysis. The possible role of imagination in moral understanding is, by and large, neglected. More recent approaches suggest engaging the imagination can benefit moral education. The concept of imagination, however, remains elusive. As the capacity to consider the possible beyond the actual, imagination is a valued educational tool. It is offered that morality and the opportunity for meaningful interpretation of human experience may best be conveyed in symbolic terms. Metaphor, once viewed as an ornamental product of language, has been rediscovered; claiming a position in our comprehension of human understanding. This thesis proposes that engaging the imagination through metaphor is critical for moral education on the basis that our moral understanding is fundamentally imaginative and metaphoric in nature.