Moral exemplars in education: a liberal account [PDF]
This paper takes issue with the exemplarist strategy of fostering virtue development with the specific goal of improving its applicability in the context of education.
Croce, Michel
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Educating through Exemplars: Alternative Paths to Virtue [PDF]
This paper confronts Zagzebski’s exemplarism with the intertwined debates over the conditions of exemplarity and the unity-disunity of the virtues, to show the advantages of a pluralistic exemplar-based approach to moral education (PEBAME).
Annas J +21 more
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Educational software reflecting two philosophical approaches to ethics education [PDF]
Ethics education can vary considerably in its instructional strategies based on differences in the theoretical positions underlying the approach to moral development being stressed.
Collis, Betty, Hettinga, Marike
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Teachers' and children's personal epistemologies for moral education: Case studies in early years elementary education [PDF]
While there is strong interest in teaching values in Australia and internationally there is little focus on young children’s moral values learning in the classroom.
Ailwood, Joanne +7 more
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Moral reasoning and homosexuality: the acceptability of arguments about lesbian and gay issues [PDF]
In the political arena, lesbian and gay issues have typically been contested on grounds of human rights, but with variable success. Using a moral developmental framework, the purpose of this study was to explore preferences for different types of moral ...
ALEIXO P.A. +19 more
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Levinas, Durkheim, and the Everyday Ethics of Education [PDF]
This article explores the influence of Émile Durkheim on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas in order both to open up the political significance of Levinas’s thought and to develop more expansive meanings of moral and political community within education.
Anna Strhan +15 more
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Character education: themes and researches. An academic literature review [PDF]
Character education is both a rooted and developing discipline. Even though there is no consensual definition, it can be widely described as a schoolbased process to promote personal development in youth, through the development of virtue, moral values ...
Pattaro, Chiara
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'Education, education, education' : legal, moral and clinical [PDF]
This article brings together Professor Donald Nicolson's intellectual interest in professional legal ethics and his long-standing involvement with law clinics both as an advisor at the University of Cape Town and Director of the University of Bristol Law
Abel R.L. +114 more
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The Presence and Possibility of Moral Sensibility in Beginning Pre-Service Teachers [PDF]
This paper presents research on the moral sensibility of six pre-service teachers in an undergraduate teacher education program. Using their reflective writing across their first two semesters of coursework as well as focus group interviews in their ...
Burant, Terry J. +2 more
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Engineering Leadership Programs in Colleges and Universities: A Focus on Morality [PDF]
Engineering programs at the college and university level have increased their focus on engineering leadership programs over the last decade. The education has focused primarily on skill-based subjects such as organizing, effective communication, and team-
Carfagno, Russ
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