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Vygotskian Business Ethics: The Influence of Peers on Moral Reasoning in Business Ethics Education
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Ohreen, David; Sundararajan, Binod; Trifts, Valerie; Comber, Scott – Journal of Management Education, 2022
The Russian developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky provides important theoretical underpinnings for an alternative to business ethics pedagogy. Although Vygotsky's constructivist approach has been applied to other disciplines, such as cognitive development, moral development, and network analysis and learning, its application to business ethics…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Thinking Skills, Moral Values, Ethics
Modifying Defining Issues Test (DIT) as a Tool for Assessing Secondary Students' Social-Emotional Competencies
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Ee, Jessie – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2014
This paper discusses the use of an alternative instrument to assess the social-emotional competence (SEC) of secondary school students in Singapore. The instrument was used in a larger study to explore an approach to infuse social-emotional learning in the curriculum for children in school. The design of this research instrument is based on the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Evaluation, Alternative Assessment, Moral Development
The Use of Case-Based Learning in the Development of Student Teachers' Levels of Moral Reasoning
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O'Flaherty, Joanne; McGarr, Oliver – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The important role of the teacher in developing morally sensitive individuals is widely acknowledged. This paper examines the integration of context-specific moral development interventions within a four-year undergraduate teacher education programme in Ireland. The intervention strategy employed a case-based pedagogical approach where…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Student Teachers, Moral Development
Exploring the Impact of Formal Education on the Moral Reasoning Abilities of College Students
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Nather, Fatima – College Student Journal, 2013
The present study was to investigate the patterns of moral reasoning of a sample of college students at Kuwait University, and to examine the effect of education level upon their moral reasoning abilities. A sample of 90 college male students participated in this study. They ranged in age from 17-25. For the purpose of this study they were divided…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Logical Thinking, College Students, Role of Education
The Impact of Education Level and Type on Moral Reasoning
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Doyle, Elaine; O'Flaherty, Joanne – Irish Educational Studies, 2013
The importance of education in developing morally sensitive individuals who use principled moral reasoning when facing dilemmas has been widely acknowledged. In the context of the criticism levelled at the Irish higher education system for failing to fulfil the role of intellectual leader and moral critic within the public domain, this paper…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Intellectual Disciplines
The Relationship between Ethical Decision Making and Ethical Reasoning in Information Technology Students
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Woodward, Belle; Davis, Diane C.; Hodis, Flaviu A. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2007
This study examined undergraduate information technology (IT) students' (N = 122) level of ethical reasoning and decision making at a Midwestern university. The purpose was to determine whether IT students' level of ethical reasoning provided information about the degree of their ethical decision making. The Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2) was used…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Ethics, Decision Making, Undergraduate Students