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Irish Student Teachers' Levels of Moral Reasoning: Context, Comparisons, and Contributing Influences
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O'Flaherty, Joanne; Gleeson, Jim – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
The moral role of the teacher has long been recognised and this has implications for the selection and education of student teachers. There is growing recognition of the importance of teachers' capacity to make sound moral judgements and of the influence of teachers' levels of moral reasoning on their professional practice. The paper presents the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Moral Values, Longitudinal Studies, Undergraduate Students
Turkish Elementary Student Teachers' Epistemological Beliefs and Moral Reasoning
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Topcu, Mustafa Sami – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationships among Turkish elementary student teachers' epistemological beliefs and moral reasoning, and to determine which types of epistemological beliefs elementary student teachers exhibit. The findings of the present study demonstrated that epistemological beliefs did not make a unique…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools
The Use of Case-Based Learning in the Development of Student Teachers' Levels of Moral Reasoning
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O'Flaherty, Joanne; McGarr, Oliver – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The important role of the teacher in developing morally sensitive individuals is widely acknowledged. This paper examines the integration of context-specific moral development interventions within a four-year undergraduate teacher education programme in Ireland. The intervention strategy employed a case-based pedagogical approach where…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Student Teachers, Moral Development
Individual and School Correlates of DIT-2 Scores: A Multilevel Modeling Approach
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Saculla, Meghan Marie; Choi, Youn-Jeng; Thoma, Stephen J. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Using multilevel modeling, moral reasoning was investigated with respect to individual characteristics and school-related (i.e. university/college) factors. Researchers observed significant effects for the individual characteristic of political orientation. Additionally, all investigated school-related factors were significant. Only main effects…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Values, Measures (Individuals)
Change in Moral Judgment of Teaching Interns in a Full-Year Internship
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Oja, Sharon Nodie; Graham, Suzanne E.; Andrew, Michael D. – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2011
The goal of this study was to investigate how moral development changes over time for teacher education master's students during their year-long internship. Data on the Defining Issues Test-2 was collected at three points in time during the full-year teaching internships (beginning, end of first semester, and end of second semester). These…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Attitude Change, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes
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