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O'Flaherty, J.; Gleeson, J. – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
This paper reports a longitudinal study of levels of moral reasoning in a convenience sample of Irish undergraduate university students, using the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT2). The study was timely, as higher education institutions are becoming increasingly interested in the promotion of social capital and the development of the whole person. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Student Attitudes, Authoritarianism
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Doyle, Elaine; O'Flaherty, Joanne – Irish Educational Studies, 2013
The importance of education in developing morally sensitive individuals who use principled moral reasoning when facing dilemmas has been widely acknowledged. In the context of the criticism levelled at the Irish higher education system for failing to fulfil the role of intellectual leader and moral critic within the public domain, this paper…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Intellectual Disciplines