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Armstrong, Luke – Theory and Research in Education, 2022
When thinking about moral education, a concern of liberals is that such education ought not to be indoctrinatory. There are various definitions of indoctrination, but a common theme is that indoctrination prevents us from critically assessing our own beliefs. Indoctrinatory education, then, teaches a doctrine in such a way that students will not…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Moral Values, Moral Development, Neurosciences
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Costa, M. Victoria – Theory and Research in Education, 2021
This article examines the many traces of John Rawls' theory of justice in contemporary philosophy of education. Beyond work that directly explores the educational implications of justice as fairness and political liberalism, there are many interesting debates in philosophy of education that make use of Rawlsian concepts to defend views that go…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Justice, Ethics
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Ilten-Gee, Robyn; Manchanda, Sarah – Theory and Research in Education, 2021
The question of 'developmental appropriateness' in education can be both empowering and inhibiting. When are students 'ready' to talk about social injustices and systemic inequalities? How might educators introduce social inequities using developmental findings about reasoning? This article presents social domain theory as a lens through which…
Descriptors: Young Children, Consciousness Raising, Social Theories, Social Bias
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Dishon, Gideon; Goodman, Joan F. – Theory and Research in Education, 2017
The "no-excuses" model of education has become one of the most prominent educational alternatives for urban youth. Recently, notable no-excuses charter schools have begun a concerted effort to develop students' character strengths, striving to increase their chances of future success. In this article, we situate the no-excuses approach…
Descriptors: Values Education, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Discipline
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Lebron, Chris – Theory and Research in Education, 2015
The taking of Black life by state authorities is a long-standing tragic tradition in America. However, in recent years, instances of Black death have gained wider media attention. This is a potentially important teaching moment, especially as it regards moral virtue and racism. In this article, I argue that Blacks have been put through a kind of…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, African Americans, Law Enforcement
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Fullinwider, Robert K. – Theory and Research in Education, 2010
Moral educators have little to learn from the moral theories in which philosophers routinely trade. These theories--including those by Slote, Hume, and Kant--leave behind the concrete world in which the moral educator labors. As interesting as they may be, they merely devise alternative routes to the same destination--to the main general features…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Philosophy, Ethical Instruction
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Slote, Michael – Theory and Research in Education, 2010
Care ethics, and moral sentimentalism more generally, have not developed a picture of moral education that is comparable in scope or depth to the rationalist/Kantian/Rawlsian account of moral education that has been offered by Lawrence Kohlberg. But it is possible to do so if one borrows from the work of Martin Hoffman and makes systematic use of…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Psychology, Ethics, Empathy
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Kristjansson, Kristjan – Theory and Research in Education, 2006
R.S. Peters coined the term "paradox of moral education". In this article, the author identifies two subordinate paradoxes: how habituated reason is psychologically possible and how heteronomously formed autonomy is morally/politically possible and justifiable. He sketches possible Aristotelian solutions of those paradoxes and argues that for…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Personal Autonomy, Critical Thinking, Cognitive Development
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Noddings, Nel – Theory and Research in Education, 2006
Two of Susan Moller Okin's articles are discussed: "Reason and feeling in thinking about justice", "Ethics" 99(2), 1989: 229-49 and "Mistresses of their own destiny: group rights, gender, and realistic rights of exit", "Ethics" 112(2), 2002: 205-30. Her argument on the foundation necessary for Rawls's…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Government Role, Cultural Differences, Ethics
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Alexander, Hanan A. – Theory and Research in Education, 2005
It is generally supposed that a curriculum should engage students with worthwhile knowledge, which requires an understanding of what it means for something to be worthwhile: a substantive conception of the good. Yet a number of influential curriculum theories deny or undermine one or another aspect of the key assumption upon which a meaningful…
Descriptors: Ethics, Curriculum Development, Value Judgment, Educational Theories