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Turiel, Elliot; Banas, K. Amy – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
The research presented in this essay is grounded in Social Domain Theory. Research provides substantial evidence that children's social development is characterized by the formation of distinctly different systems of thought, including those in the moral, social-conventional, and personal domains. A main focus here is on morality, defined as…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Social Values, Moral Development, Child Development
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Egorova, Maia A.; Ruiz, Tamara Z. – NORDSCI, 2021
The problem of motivation is one of the most important in determining the driving mechanisms that force a person to learn, work, master something new. Motivation to work is one of the key elements of challenging yourself on the way to self-development. Motivation has deep psychological and moral roots and is a complex multifaceted phenomenon that…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries, Social Values
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Ibarrola-García, Sara; Iriarte, Concha – London Review of Education, 2014
Schools are responsible for civic education and for educating the students so they may live together. This means that they need to develop educative processes that take into account the social and affective dimension of the classroom, such as improvements in the atmosphere at school and the quality of teacher-student relationships. Practical…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Empowerment, Civics, Citizenship Education
Elias, Maurice, Ed. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
The application of social-emotional and character development (SECD) in classrooms is about teaching, practicing, and modeling essential personal and civic life habits and skills that are almost universally understood as making people good human beings. Among these habits are respect, responsibility, integrity, caring, fairness, and constructive…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Integrity, Values Education, Moral Development
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Matchett, Nancy J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
All colleges teach ethics across their undergraduate curricula, yet relatively few institutions do so deliberately. That is, few colleges make explicit attempts to coordinate or integrate the various ethical lessons their students might be learning. This does not mean that most colleges are bad for students' ethical development; research shows…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Academic Freedom, Educational Opportunities, Ethics
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Roy, Maurice – Community Development Journal, 1973
Cardinal Roy, President of the Pontifical Commission for International Justice and Peace, maintains that economic objectives for social development fail to consider the problems of the new era and result in an improper distribution of the benefits of development. He hopes that Christians will express their brotherhood by remedying social…
Descriptors: Christianity, Economic Factors, Moral Development, Moral Values
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Turiel, Elliot – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1999
Cultures include a combination of shared and contested understandings. Although individuals may identify with their culture, they are also critical of practices judged unfair. Cultural practices that privilege one group and restrict the practices of another are sources of conflict and change. (Author)
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Culture Conflict, Moral Development, Moral Values
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Greene, Maxine – Contemporary Education, 1976
Modern education is examined in the light of John Dewey's theory that moral education is a process of involving singular human beings, living consciously in association with one another, in thinking purposively and intelligently about subject-matter provided by their common, intertwined lives. (JD)
Descriptors: Individual Development, Integrity, Maturity (Individuals), Moral Development
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DiMartino, Emily Comstock – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1990
Preschoolers are able to distinguish and understand different types of social conflict using the same criteria as adults. The social conflicts discussed are (1) morality; (2) social convention; (3) safety; and (4) institutional rules. (DG)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Competence, Moral Development
Blumenfeld, Phyllis – 1972
A dissertation proposal is made to study the development of materialistic values during the years of middle childhood and to determine whether the pattern of development is different for children of various ages, sexes and socioeconomic backgrounds. The development of materialistic values will be studied in regard to the beliefs of children during…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Data Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Hogan, Robert – 1977
The author purports the need to treat moral education as a serious academic subject and suggests ways educators can manage it in an intellectually defensible way. Ethical education must avoid indoctrination, yet it should not be a mere training in philosophical ethics. The domain of moral education should include four partially interdependent…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction
Kohn, Alfie – Camping Magazine, 2003
Some character education programs are based on assumptions about children and how they learn that may undermine camp programs' long-term objectives for children. Key elements to consider are the assumptions made about human nature and children; how program structures like competition or cooperation influence character; whether kids are involved in…
Descriptors: Camping, Character Education, Child Behavior, Moral Development
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Nisan, Mordecai – Journal of Moral Education, 1988
Investigates the development of a perception of values in childhood. Perception of values is defined as being different than those of morality and conventions. Responses to seven scenarios are analyzed. Concludes that there is a distinct concept of values among children and that the instinct for this increases with age. (KO)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Educational Research, Elementary School Students, Experimental Psychology
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Bradley, Karen – New Directions for Youth Development, 2005
Adolescents nowadays socialize, network, and sort out their friendships and relationships online. As such, it is assumed that adolescents' experiences in the online world will influence their experiences in the face-to-face world and will play an important role in their development of social and moral knowledge. In this article, the author…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Social Environment, Internet
Roberts, Thomas B. – 1971
By using this holistic approach the author believes that men will be able to construct a view of the development of man that synthesizes many existing separate human science approaches. The purposes of this conference paper are fourfold: 1) to give an example of how to begin to reformulate current intellectual interests in terms of a humanistic…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Sciences, Conceptual Schemes
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