Making the Case for Moral Development Education

Autor/inn/en	O'Flaherty, Joanne; Doyle, Elaine
Titel	Making the Case for Moral Development Education
Quelle	In: Journal of Further and Higher Education, 38 (2014) 2, S.147-162 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-877X
DOI	10.1080/0309877X.2012.699519
Schlagwörter	Moral Development; Ethical Instruction; Intervention; Professional Development; Citizenship; Social Capital; Educational Needs; Higher Education; Citizen Participation; Thinking Skills; Role of Education; Case Studies; Educational Practices; Foreign Countries; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Moralische Entwicklung; Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht; Staatsbürgerschaft; Sozialkapital; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Denkfähigkeit; Bildungsauftrag; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Bildungspraxis; Ausland; Irland
Abstract	The importance of education in developing ethically sensitive individuals who use principled moral reasoning when facing dilemmas has been widely acknowledged (Pascarella and Terenzini 1991; Rest et al. 1999b). However, ethics is typically omitted from the higher level curriculum and, if raised at all, comprises a very minor element of the course content of a small minority of modules. This paper makes the case for including deliberate moral reasoning interventions within higher education programmes. In doing so, it draws on the concepts of professionalism, citizenship and social capital and explains how moral reasoning development would encourage serving the public interest, active citizenship and the development of social capital. To illustrate the critical need for this to be achieved urgently, the paper refers to evidence from two recent studies carried out in Ireland, demonstrating a clear lack of principled moral reasoning among the respective cohorts tested. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10