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O'Flaherty, J.; Gleeson, J. – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
This paper reports a longitudinal study of levels of moral reasoning in a convenience sample of Irish undergraduate university students, using the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT2). The study was timely, as higher education institutions are becoming increasingly interested in the promotion of social capital and the development of the whole person. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Student Attitudes, Authoritarianism
Diessner, Rhett – 1991
This paper examines the moral reasoning of preservice and inservice teachers; reviews and summarizes empirical studies that have examined teachers' levels of principled reasoning; relates that information to the construction of democratic classrooms, which are a critique of both authoritarian and status quo democratic systems; and presents…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Behavior Change, Democratic Values, Educational Environment