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Nicholas Smith; Darby Vickers – Theory and Research in Education, 2024
Artificial intelligence technologies have become a ubiquitous part of human life. This prompts us to ask, "how should we live well with artificial intelligence?" Currently, the most prominent candidate answers to this question are principlist. According to these approaches, if you teach people some finite set of principles or convince…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Moral Values, Ethics, Philosophy
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David B. Monaghan – Theory and Research in Education, 2024
Empirical educational research nearly universally tacitly assumes that people attend college only in order to improve their likely earnings. Thus, it ignores the immense cultural importance ascribed to education (and particularly higher education) in modern culture, or at least proceeds as if this cultural valorization is irrelevant to…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Institutional Environment, Student Experience, Educational Background
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Fantuzzo, John P. – Theory and Research in Education, 2022
There is currently bipartisan support for criminal justice reform in the United States. One reform, recently passed through the Consolidated Appropriations Act/COVID relief package (December 2020), restored need-based, higher educational aid for incarcerated persons. With a resurgence of college-in-prison programs on the horizon, this article…
Descriptors: Human Dignity, Moral Values, Recidivism, Correctional Institutions
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Orona, Gabe Avakian – Theory and Research in Education, 2021
Virtue education is gaining popularity in institutions of higher education. Given this growing interest, several theoretical accounts explaining the process of virtue learning have emerged. However, there is scant empirical evidence supporting their applicability for intellectual virtue. In this study, we apply a theory of virtue learning to the…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Moral Values, Higher Education, Intellectual Development
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Holma, Katariina; Hyytinen, Heidi – Theory and Research in Education, 2015
In higher education, "personal epistemology" is today a significant research area. Personal epistemology has been seen as promising particularly because it focuses on one of the general learning aims of many contemporary universities, namely, the development of students' creative and critical thinking. The article identifies serious…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Philosophy, Developmental Psychology
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Curzer, Howard J.; Sattler, Sabrina; DuPree, Devin G.; Smith-Genthôs, K. Rachelle – Theory and Research in Education, 2014
The ethics assessment industry is currently dominated by the second version of the Defining Issues Test (DIT2). In this article, we describe an alternative assessment instrument called the Sphere-Specific Moral Reasoning and Theory Survey (SMARTS), which measures the respondent's level of moral development in several respects. We describe eight…
Descriptors: Ethics, Ethical Instruction, Moral Values, Moral Development