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Gonzalo Jover; Vicent Gozálvez – Theory and Research in Education, 2024
This article investigates the theoretical link between two approaches to civic character education: Service Learning and the Just Community, given that the two share a strong democratic ethical component. Based on historical research and bibliographical review, we show that John Dewey's pragmatism forms a theoretical foundation of both approaches.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Values Education, Ethical Instruction, Moral Development
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Henderson, Emerald – Theory and Research in Education, 2023
A new theory of emulation--the method by which one learns from moral role models--is emerging through the combined efforts of philosophers, psychologists and educationists. Using a previous argument reconceptualising emulation as a moral virtue as a philosophical springboard, in this paper, I extend this theory by building a more robust case for…
Descriptors: Role Models, Ethical Instruction, Moral Values, Moral Development
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Sachs-Cobbe, Benjamin – Theory and Research in Education, 2023
Since the 1990s, education for the virtues of citizenship has become widespread in the United States and United Kingdom. It is intended to inculcate virtues such as courtesy, respect and truthfulness in school children. This essay defends education for the virtues of citizenship against two criticisms. According to the first, which might be called…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Political Attitudes, Moral Development
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Little, Sabrina B. – Theory and Research in Education, 2021
Admiration is often described as having a singular motivational profile -- the disposition to imitate. This article provides a developmental assessment of admiration's action-potential, proposing a series of stages between (1) naïve imitation, a basic mimetic impulse, and (2) non-imitative virtuous actions. The process is marked by an increasing…
Descriptors: Imitation, Prosocial Behavior, Moral Development, Psychological Patterns
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McKenna, Joseph – Theory and Research in Education, 2020
In her Exemplarist Moral Theory, Linda Zagzebski argues that we can empirically discover the meaning of moral terms like 'virtue' and 'the good life' by direct reference to moral exemplars -- those people we admire as morally exceptional. Her proposal is promising, because (1) moral exemplars play an important motivating role in moral education,…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Educational Theories, Role
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Hand, Michael – Theory and Research in Education, 2018
John White and John Tillson have both raised objections to the theory of moral education I have recently advanced. Here I reply to their objections and offer some critical remarks on the alternative accounts of moral education they propose.
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Beliefs, Ideology, Information Dissemination
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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
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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
I respond to Noddings with further clarification of the notion of empathy and also argue that previous care ethics has put too much of an exclusive emphasis on relationships. I respond to Darwall by pointing out some implausible implications of his own and Kantian views about respect and by showing how a sentimentalist approach can avoid those…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Moral Values, Ethics, Empathy
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Noddings, Nel – Theory and Research in Education, 2010
Michael Slote's very interesting work on moral sentimentalism and moral education raises some important questions on the meaning of empathy, the limitations of "inductions", and the development of moral education from the perspective of care ethics. These questions are addressed in this commentary. (Contains 5 notes.)
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Empathy, Values Education
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Wren, Thomas – Theory and Research in Education, 2010
Although I think most of what Michael Slote asserts in his article "Sentimentalist moral education" is correct, I worry about three important ideas that are conspicuous by their absence. The first is the possibility that human emotions and feelings are inherently cognitive, which is never considered in his psychological account of empathy. The…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Empathy, Moral Development
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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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Darwall, Stephen – Theory and Research in Education, 2010
Michael Slote proposes a rethinking of moral education from the perspective of a normative ethics of care combined with his distinctive sentimentalist metaethics. I raise questions concerning the role of empathy in Slote's picture and argue that empathy is related to respect and sentiments through which we hold ourselves and one another…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Empathy, Moral Issues
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Cuypers, Stefaan E.; Haji, Ishtiyaque – Theory and Research in Education, 2008
Liberals champion the view that promoting autonomy--seeing to it that our children develop into individuals who are self-governing in the conduct of their lives--is a vital aim of education, though one generally accredited as being subsidiary to well-being. Our prime goal in this article is to provide a partial validation of this liberal ideal…
Descriptors: Freedom, Educational Philosophy, Ethical Instruction, Well Being
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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