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Cameron Meiklejohn; Andrew Hickey; Stewart Riddle – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
Research investigating elite schools has highlighted how students within these learning environments embody and naturalise their privilege through discourses of merit, hard work, and innate talent and skill. However, relatively little is known about how privilege, and its associated discourses, moves with students beyond the school gate and into…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Males, Alumni, Advantaged
Lena Söldner; Markus Paulus – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2025
The emergence of moral emotions such as guilt is central in moral and prosocial development. Guilt is an important psychological factor, which motivates prosocial behaviour and is credited for multiple social functions. Importantly, it remains unclear what determines the extent to which children show guilt. The current study examined two factors…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Anxiety, Ethics, Moral Development
Wojciech Kaftanski – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
This article argues for a unique role of imagination and mental images in the moral education of students. Imagination is rendered here as a capacity oriented toward realizable and salient goals; mental images are understood as particular future-oriented self-representations (FOSRs) devised by and held in imagination. FOSRs have four moral…
Descriptors: Imagination, Moral Values, Moral Development, Goal Orientation
Jean Paul Lefebvre; Hailey Goddeeris; Zachariah I. Hamzagic; Tobias Krettenauer – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The study investigated age-related trends in moral identity goal characteristics, as proposed in previous research (Krettenauer, 2022a), by modifying the Self-Importance of Moral Identity Questionnaire (Aquino & Reed, 2002). Internally and externally motivated moral identity was assessed on varying levels of abstractness for promotion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Moral Development, Self Concept
Manuel Joaquín Fernández González; Kleio Akrivou – Cogent Education, 2024
Moral development is crucial for a meaningful life. Many well-founded approaches and models are present in the moral development literature, which is a very diverse and populated field. The model of a 'person of moral growth' presented in this paper is a contribution to moral growth research based on personalist virtue ethics. Personalist virtue…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Ethics, Holistic Approach
Jill M. Aldridge; Felicity McLure – Learning Environments Research, 2024
Hope for the future provides a protective factor against mental health disorders and contributes to students' academic success and wellbeing. We investigated whether a school's climate influenced students' prosocial moral identity and hope for the future to understand better how church-based schools might improve these important outcomes. Data…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Religious Schools, Churches, Moral Development
Lena Söldner; Maria Mammen; Markus Paulus – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The moral self-concept (MSC) is an early indicator of how children view themselves as moral agents. It has been proposed that an important feature of an established self-concept (SC) is sufficient coherency in how one views oneself. Furthermore, the MSC is expected to develop into a multidimensional, hierarchical construct which is stable over…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Self Concept, Moral Development, Individual Development
Johanna S. Quinn; E. Danielle Roberts; Wei-Lin Chen; Rachael Doubledee; Jennifer Brown Urban; Miriam R. Linver – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
This paper focuses on data from a study of middle- to upper-middle class Scottish S2 ([approximately]seventh grade) students who participated in Inspiring Purpose, a school-based character development program, during the 2016 to 2017 school year. Directed by their teachers, participating youth reflected on values and future aspirations and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Middle School Students, Grade 7
Claire F. Garandeau; Tiina Turunen; Jessica Trach; Christina Salmivalli – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2025
This study examined whether, for bullying perpetrators, admitting to their behavior was associated with specific psychosocial characteristics, and whether it predicted decreases in bullying behavior and a higher responsiveness to a successful anti-bullying program after 9 months of implementation. It also investigated whether participation in an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Bullying, Restorative Practices
Jorge López González; Paula Crespí; Belén Obispo-Díaz; Jesús Rodríguez Barroso – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2025
The cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) have relevance within the areas of character education and integral or comprehensive formation. In recent years, there has been growing interest and a great deal of literature produced on character education and its measurement. In this paper, we propose a questionnaire (a…
Descriptors: Ethics, Self Concept, Values Education, Likert Scales
Angela D. Evans; Victoria Talwar – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Given the value placed on honesty and the negative consequences of lying, encouraging children's truth-telling is important. The present investigation assessed honesty promotion techniques for encouraging 3-8-year-old Canadian children's (Study 1: n = 301, 54% female; Study 2: n = 229, 50% female from predominantly White middle-class samples)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Moral Development, Deception
Yeni Wijayanti; Warto; Wasino; Djono – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Insufficient integration of local history into the national curriculum has resulted in students' limited understanding of their regional cultural identity. In Ciamis Regency, the Kagaluhan values embedded in Sanghyang Siksakandang Karesian (SSKK) hold great potential for character education but remain underutilized in history…
Descriptors: Self Concept, High School Students, Indigenous Knowledge, Problem Based Learning
Kimberly Villalpando – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between Self-Importance of Moral Identity (SIMI), Psychological Hardiness (PH), and Authentic Leadership (AL) among full-time college students. Data was collected from 276 college students ranging in classification from freshman to graduate level, while 183 responses were deemed usable for…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Concept, Moral Development, Psychological Patterns
Nipitpon Nanthawong – Higher Education Studies, 2024
This research aims to compare the social studies curricula of Thailand and New York State, USA, analyze their similarities and differences, and propose guidelines for improving the Thai social studies curriculum. The study employed a qualitative research methodology, using documentary analysis of the Thai Basic Education Core Curriculum B.E. 2551…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Social Studies, Core Curriculum, Foreign Countries