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Cheyenne C. Luzynski; Peter Athans; Jawauna Harding – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2024
Sport plays a crucial role in personal and collective development, reflecting core values and serving as a platform for holistic growth. As athletics, especially intercollegiate sports, face increasing pressures and challenges, the need for leadership training and character development has become more critical than ever. This article emphasizes…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Games, Holistic Approach, Individual Development
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Lim, Lyndon; Chapman, Elaine – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
Endeavours to assess moral reasoning in education have largely been via established but less contemporary measures, with recent measures developed more than a decade ago. Together with the call to go beyond assessing cognitive constructs, and the intended learning outcomes of the Singapore Ministry of Education Character and Citizenship Education…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Secondary School Students, Values Education
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Farrington, Camille A. – Journal of Character Education, 2017
This paper responds to Berkowitz, Bier, and McCauley's description of effective features and practices that support character development by pushing on the question of "how" child and youth environments might "build character." Acknowledging the challenges of drawing on program evaluations and extant studies of character…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Values, Program Evaluation, Values Education
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Davis, Darin H.; Wadell, Paul J. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2016
This article explores how educating lives for Christian wisdom might serve as an antidote to the vice of "acedia," a prominent feature of the culture of contemporary higher education. After suggesting that the capital vice of "acedia" seems to capture well various facets of our present age and how the pursuit of wisdom serves…
Descriptors: Christianity, Higher Education, Values Clarification, Values
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Ejuu, Godfrey – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2015
As modern Early Childhood Development begins to gain prominence in African communities, questions are beginning to emerge as to what sort of Early Childhood Development is being promoted as 'best practices'. Thus, the discourse for and against western Early Childhood Development as opposed to indigenous Early Childhood Development, and the scope…
Descriptors: Child Development, Young Children, Best Practices, Foreign Countries
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Jacobs, Jonathan – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
Humanistic studies cultivate types of conceptual fluency and modes of awareness important to thought concerning values. Not all knowledge is scientific knowledge. There is genuine comprehension of some valuative matters--they are not all to be interpreted in expressive or subjective terms. Education in the humanities can encourage value-relevant…
Descriptors: Specialization, Humanities, Moral Development, Humanism
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O'Shea, Joseph – Journal of College and Character, 2011
This article presents the first half of an address at the 2011 Jon C. Dalton Institution on College Student Values. Drawing on personal reflections regarding his higher education experiences, the author argues that cultivating a robust disposition for benevolence requires a synthesis of intellectual engagement, critical self-reflection, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Altruism, College Students, Values
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Apostolou, Barbara; Dull, Richard B.; Schleifer, Lydia L. F. – Accounting Education, 2013
Faculty tasked with revising the accounting curriculum to incorporate an ethics component may benefit from the experiences reported in the literature. We construct and describe a framework for the pedagogy of accounting ethics based upon extant literature. Our purpose is to present the cumulative contributions to the literature in a fashion that…
Descriptors: Ethics, Accounting, College Faculty, Curriculum Development
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Haslip, Meishi Lim; Haslip, Michael J. – Childhood Education, 2013
This article shares lessons learned from the implementation of a community-based character education program in Malaysia. The program at Jenjarom Learning Center is directed toward the transformation and empowerment of local children and youth through moral and character education. The stated purpose of the program has been to awaken the…
Descriptors: Community Education, Values Education, Program Implementation, Moral Development
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Witz, Klaus G.; Lee, Hyunju; Huang, Wanju – Qualitative Inquiry, 2010
This article deals with the consciousness in a person when one tries to understand her more deeply and as a whole, as is done in studies using the "Participant as Ally-Essentialist Portraiture" approach, and focuses on "higher aspects" or moral-ethical, metaphysical, social and religious ideals, values, commitments, or inspiration in a person. The…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Values, Phenomenology, Religious Factors
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Moore, James – Social Studies, 2012
Many scholars, teachers, parents, as well as others, are concerned with the decline of civility in public discourse and public schools. The sharp differences among various ideological groups, exacerbated by media incivility, are contributing factors to rising incivility. This ideological divide currently manifests itself in bitter partisan…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Studies, Moral Development, Moral Issues
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You, Zhuran; Rud, A. G. – Education and Culture, 2010
While John Dewey's learning theory has been widely credited as the essential theoretical underpinnings of service learning, lesser attention has been paid to his concept of moral imagination regarding its immense potentials in nurturing college students' moral growth in service learning. This article explores Dewey's framework of moral imagination…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Ethical Instruction, Imagination, Service Learning
Daniels, Harry, Ed.; Lauder, Hugh, Ed.; Porter, Jill, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning" focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education--learners and teachers. Within this volume, internationally renowned…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Brain, Social Environment, Educational Policy
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Hu, Zhongping – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
One of the main reasons of the fact that Chinese moral education could hardly get out of its predicament is that "self-regard" has been simply and unilaterally interpreted as the absolute opposite to morality, where "self-regard" is merely regarded as the source of "everything evil", and the fact that it is also the…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Altruism, Foreign Countries, Moral Values
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Richards, Virginia – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2005
The American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) Code of Ethics guides members on ethical practice in specific areas, however, becoming ethical does not happen at the moment a major is declared or on graduation day. Ethical values are formed in childhood by the examples provided by parents, teachers, and other significant adults.…
Descriptors: Values, Integrity, Consumer Science, Ethics
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