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ERIC Number: EJ1295822
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0305-7240
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Moral Reasoning in Peer Conversations during Game-Based Learning: An Exploratory Study
Ilten-Gee, Robyn; Hilliard, Lacey J.
Journal of Moral Education, v50 n2 p140-165 2021
This mixed-methods study is an exploration of fifth and sixth grade students' interactions with an online game called "Quandary," a comic-book-esque game aimed at stimulating ethical decision-making. Building on the domain-based moral education framework, researchers designed and implemented a short-term intervention in three classrooms in which students played an episode of "Quandary" in pairs. Students' pre- and post-test reasoning assessment responses were coded for reasoning levels and coordination types. Conversations between 12 student pairs were recorded during game-play. We coded their speech for transactive discourse. We focus on two pairs of students that engaged in sophisticated transactive discourse; we discuss the potential of their interactions and demonstrate the potential of "Quandary" as a catalyst for moral discussion. Implications for informing innovative approaches to moral education are discussed.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Grade 5
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Language: English
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