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Social Justice Reasoning of Education Undergraduates: Effect of Instruction in Moral Development Theory and Dilemma Discussion in the Asynchronous Online Classroom
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Bell, Patrick E.; Liu, Leping – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2015
This study used a quasi-experimental design to examine whether exposure to moral development theory and dilemma discussion in the asynchronous online learning environment resulted in significant gains in principled moral reasoning (DIT N2-scores) of undergraduate elementary and secondary education students. Participants were undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Values, Undergraduate Students, Logical Thinking
Moral Development and Social Worker Ethical Decision-Making
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Groessl, Joan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined both the moral development levels using the Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT--2) and ethical decision-making using the Professional Opinion Scale (POS) of social workers who provide field supervision to students within accredited social work programs in Wisconsin. Using the moral development theory of Kohlberg (1981) which defined…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Social Work, Ethics
Does Care Reasoning Make a Difference? Relations between Care, Justice and Dispositional Empathy
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Juujarvi, Soile; Myyry, Liisa; Pesso, Kaija – Journal of Moral Education, 2010
The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between care and justice reasoning, dispositional empathy variables and meta-ethical thinking among 128 students from a university of applied sciences. The measures were Skoe's Ethic of Care Interview, the Defining Issues Test, Davis's Interpersonal Reactivity Index and Meta-Ethical…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Perspective Taking, Ethics, Empathy