This research belongs to qualitative research, which explored the santri's humility ("tawadhu'") in the Lirboyo Islamic Boarding School, Kediri. "Tawadhu'" in Islamic boarding school is traditional, rooted, and has become a positive character. Thus, it deserves to be explored and later can be used as a "role model"…

The purpose of this study was to explore how educational leaders incorporate the ethic of care into their practices. The theoretical perspective was authentic leadership. The research question was: How do authentic leaders working from an ethic of care maintain consistency between their espoused values of developing and maintaining relationships…

Understanding which factors can impact rater judgments in assessments is important to ensure quality ratings. One such factor is whether prior performance information (PPI) about learners influences subsequent decision making. The information can be acquired directly, when the rater sees the same learner, or different learners over multiple…

Aspiring leaders need guidance, and there is no shortage of advice on the qualities required for successful leadership. Moral philosophers in the Western tradition have tended to gravitate toward the moral end of the spectrum. Seeking to dominate others can certainly work, but too often it supports leadership styles that are short-sighted and…

Intentional synthesis of research findings is necessary to inform practice, particularly within the research on evaluation (RoE) literature. This study expands upon the work of Coryn et al. (2017) to synthesize the RoE studies pertaining to the domain of evaluation context. Findings from this study demonstrate that organization and program's size,…

Teachers in kindergartens and schools also fill an important role of values educators. The study examined teachers' socialisation values and their links with teachers' personal values, age, education, and educational setting (kindergarten vs school). A total of 391 teachers in Estonia filled in the Schwartz's Portrait Values Questionnaire that…

The importance of clarifying personal values has gained popularity in brief interventions recently, but little is known about factors that predict clarity in values or the benefits of values clarity in non-clinical populations. First-year college students and their mothers (99 dyads) completed an online survey where they rated the importance of 20…

Post-truth trades on the corruption of argument and evidence to protect ideological commitment and social identity. We distinguish two kinds of post-truth environments, epistemic bubbles and echo chambers, and argue that facets of post-truth are countered the more science (and general) education encourages the development of intellectual virtues…

This report shares the results of the Mapping the Terrain annual study which focuses on the attitudes of youths and adults around them regarding values as they relate to growth and development. The interest in values comes from the approach that as youths grow and life conditions change, so do values, and new ones are adopted as a result of…

In this qualitative study aiming to identify the views of educational constituencies (teachers and academics) about compulsory Religious Culture and Morality Education (RCME) course. The study was designed as a case study and the study group constituted 53 participants, who are graduate teachers and postgraduate students who are studying at the…

The article makes a number of critical remarks concerning Linda Zagzebski's exemplarism. On the positive side, I argue that one of its strengths is the focus on motivation as an important factor in moral education whilst, on the negative, I draw attention to two issues. The first is that Zagzebski's notion of moral exemplars is insufficient since…

Modern Kantians often address the conception of Kant as 'cold hearted rationalist' by arguing that there is a place, in Kantian moral theory, for the emotions. This theme of reconciling Kantianism with the emotions is concurrent with a recent interest, on the part of some Kantians, in issues pertaining to character education. This paper will argue…

Merrill's (Education Tech Research Dev 50(3):43-59, 2002, First principles of instruction. In: Reigeluth CM, Carr-Chellman A (eds) Instructional-design theories and models: building a common knowledge base, vol III. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, pp 41-56, 2009) first principles have become ubiquitous in the instructional design…

Teachers are key to provision of quality education and as noted by Mompoint-Gaillard (2011), they have a great opportunity to facilitate development of values in learners. However, it is not clear whether lecturers in Primary Teacher Training Colleges (PTTCs) in Kenya are prepared for training teacher trainees in development of values. Instilling…

Civility is about the character of who we are. Civility brings core values to life in one's behavior. History suggests that civility can be taught and learned. A corrosive lack of civility is evident today in every segment of society, from politics to academia, from media to the blogosphere, from talk radio to the pulpit. At issue is whether or…