scholarly journals Ethical and Moral Competences of Upper Secondary Students: A Comparative Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 209653112097395
Author(s):  
Zhengmei Peng ◽  
Dietrich Benner ◽  
Roumiana Nikolova ◽  
Stanislav Ivanov ◽  
Tao Peng
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Moral Knowledge ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Moral Competences

Purpose: This article presents the theoretical framework, research design, methodology, and main findings of the comparative measurement of ethical–moral competences of 15-year-old upper secondary students in Shanghai, under the ETiK-International-Shanghai project. Design/Approach/Methods: By dividing the ethical–moral competences into the categories of basic ethical–moral knowledge, ethical–moral judgment competence, and competence in developing ethical–moral action plans, a survey of 2,036 students was conducted, using a reliable and valid testing instrument. Findings: In general, 15-year-olds from homes with more educational resources perform higher in all three scales across all countries taken under consideration in our study. Furthermore, school practices, teaching, as well as quantity and quality of instruction play a very important role in the moral education process and especially in developing students’ proficiency levels of ethical–moral knowledge, reasoning competence, as well as students’ high abilities in developing moral action plans. When relevant educational background factors are held constant, Chinese students show lower average scores on basic ethical–moral knowledge and moral judgment competence. With exception of the tested Vienna students, all other European samples scored better than the Chinese students—also on the test for developing ethical–moral action plans. However, Chinese students are especially able to display outstanding empathy when dealing with suffering, misfortune, and sorrow, as well as in their willingness to help others. Originality/Value: The findings of this article can foster thinking about which topics should be further discussed to improve the ethical–moral knowledge and competences of Chinese students and highlight requirements for the further development of moral education in China at the levels of teaching, curriculum, teacher education, and research.

scholarly journals Carrot or stick?: an investigation into motivation orientations in learning English among Hong Kong Chinese students

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
Ruth Wong
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Hong Kong Chinese ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Learning English

This paper publishes the results of a study of Hong Kong Chinese upper secondary students (Form 4 and Form 6) regarding their motivation orientations for learning English. The study analysed male and females student groups using Gardner and Lambert's (1972) 'extrinsic and intrinsic motivation' theoretical framework in order to elicit the most revealing results from the data. Findings will have meaningful implications for pedagogy, helping educators identify strategies more appropriate to distinct Chinese-speaking second-language student groups.

scholarly journals INTEGRATION OF SOCIAL CARE CHARACTERS AND MORAL INTEGRATIF ON SOCIAL SCIENCE LESSONS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-427
Author(s):  
Hasnah Kanji ◽  
Nursalam Nursalam ◽  
Muhammad Nawir ◽  
Suardi Suardi
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Moral Knowledge ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Moral Culture

The purpose of this study was to find an integrative model of social care character in social science subjects in elementary schools using integrative moral knowledge, moral feelings, moral sinverbals, moral action, moral habitus and moral culture. The reality that happens is that students experience moral degradation so that they need the integration of character education in the learning process. The formulation of the research problem is how to model the integration of national character education in social science learning. The research method used qualitative methods with 10 informants consisting of the principal, teachers, students, parents. The data technique used interview, observation and documentation instruments, then the data were analyzed through data reduction, data display and verification. The paradigm used in the research is the moral education paradigm. The results of the research model of the integration of social caring character education consist of six moral levels, namely moral knowledge, moral feelings, moral synergy, moral action, moral habits and moral culture which are integrated with the values of social caring character in the learning process of social science.

scholarly journals EFL Textbook Analysis: A Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harison Mohd Sidek
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Textbook Analysis ◽  
Secondary Curriculum ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Below Grade Level

The purpose of the present study was to determine how well Malaysian EFL Secondary Curriculum prepares upper secondary students for tertiary reading in English. This study is explorative in nature. The data for this study were acquired from a Malaysian national EFL upper secondary textbook. The data were in the form of comprehension reading passages in the selected EFL textbook. In this case study, reading instructional design in the EFL textbook was analyzed in terms of types and the grade-level length of passages used in the textbook. The findings show that reading instructional design in the EFL textbook significantly emphasizes the use of narrative passages with the majority of the passages being below grade-level texts.

scholarly journals Moral education: School as a just community

2003 ◽  
pp. 195-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljiljana Miocinovic
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Cognitive Conflict ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Moral Atmosphere ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Just Community ◽  
Principal Method

The paper discusses Kohlberg?s view of moral education, how it was developing and changing over time. Starting from a theoretical postulate that thinking constitutes the essence of morality and from empirical findings of the stage development of moral judgment, in his early works Kohlberg defines moral education as "encouraging the natural course of moral judgment development". As a principal method of work, Kohlberg recommends the encouragement of a cognitive conflict by means of discussing hypothetic moral dilemmas. Criticisms that he is over-intellectualizing moral education, getting acquainted with a collective upbringing in kibbutz's, active participation in work in schools and prisons and finding that moral judgment and acting in everyday life is a response to the prevailing moral atmosphere of a group are leading to the changes in moral education goals and development of a new approach known as "just community". Now a group is in the focus of moral education, not an individual any longer, the major area of studies being group norms and expectations. The "just community" approach does not remain only at the classroom level discussing hypothetical moral dilemmas but directly influences the structure of school justice i.e. its rules and discipline, processes they are passed as well as the rights and duties of both teachers and students. Its goal is no longer to develop moral judgment of an individual student but to develop a group as moral community founded upon the norms of trust, participation and collective responsibility.

scholarly journals The complementarity of dilemma discussion with theoretical reading for an effective intervention in moral judgment

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-93
Author(s):  
Víctor Hugo Robles Francia
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Final Test ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Lasting Peace ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Social Minorities

At present there is great interest in moral education to achieve a straight democracy, a healthy coexistence between all actors and social minorities and a lasting peace. What has guided this research partially effective development of moral reasoning skills. Also, because this subject shows limited field explorations and void effective interventions in Mexico. In particular, this research showed the following hypothesis: effective complementarity discursive exposure Kohlberg's theory to the discussion of moral dilemmas. The Moral Judgment Test was applied as pretest to 19 undergraduates, as intermediate test and final test. There were two phases: the first was on discussion of moral dilemmas, at the rate of seven sessions, one per week; the second one was made through a session and expository reading on the theory of moral judgment. The results showed a decline of moral judgment in the first intervention phase and a significant increase after the second phase.

scholarly journals TEACHING UPPER-SECONDARY STUDENTS ABOUT CONSERVATION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY: TWO VARIANTS OF THE SYSTEM APPROACH TO ENERGY ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-236
Author(s):  
Asila Halilović ◽  
Vanes Mešić ◽  
Elvedin Hasović ◽  
Andrej Vidak
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
System Approach ◽  
Mechanical Energy ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Conventional Teaching ◽  
Upper Secondary ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Level Of Understanding ◽  
Quasi Experiment

Conventional teaching about the law of conservation of mechanical energy (LCME) often results with students trying to solve problems by remembering similar problems they already covered in classes. Consequently, many students fail to transfer their knowledge to simplest real-life problems. Therefore, a pre-test – post-test quasi-experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of an alternative, system-based approach to teaching about LCME. The study included 70 upper-secondary students from the First Bosniak Gymnasium Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Firstly, all students learned about energy in a conventional way. Then they wrote a test on LCME and had three additional hours of teaching about this topic, where one group of students learned in line with the forces-variant of the system approach (e.g., discussing conservative and non-conservative forces) and the other group with the process-variant of the same approach (e.g., discussing system’s states and processes like in thermodynamics). For both variants, only three hours of system-based teaching proved to substantially improve the students’ level of LCME understanding compared to the level of understanding they had after conventional teaching. It follows that the system approach may work well at the upper-secondary level, if it is introduced through the scaffolding-and-fading technique. Keywords: quasi-experiment, mechanical energy, teaching materials, teaching strategies

scholarly journals QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF COACHES’ PERSPECTIVES ON MORAL EDUCATION IN SPORT

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (107) ◽  
pp. 46-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saulius Šukys ◽  
Živilė Dargenė ◽  
Diana Karanauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Moral Education ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Football Coaches ◽  
Moral Behaviour ◽  
Moral Competences

Background. Moral behaviour and moral education of young athletes still remain an important issue in sports context. This study was designed to examine coaches’ perspectives on moral education in sport. Methods. In this study, aiming at establishing the perspectives of coaches on the moral education of athletes in sports activities, qualitative research was selected. Primary data were collected via semi-structured interviews with nine basketball and football coaches of different experience and age. The data were analysed applying thematic analysis. Results. Thematic analysis indicated that coaches identified goals of athletes’ education as the development of athletes’ personality, motivation, the development of sports excellence and the encouragement to achieve victory. Coaches defined moral education as the development of the authority of an athlete, fair play, compliance with rules, and integrity. The most common means coaches used for moral education were explanation, discussion, lectures, meetings, personal examples, case analyses. Such means are important for athlete’s personal development, pursuit of results, and career planning. The qualities of good coach were professional knowledge, authority, competences of creating motivational climate, and also moral competences. Conclusion. A central finding of the study is that coaches define moral education in sport through the education of moral values and the goals set by coaches related not only to the sports results, but also to the development of the personality of athletes. Personal role of coaches in moral education encompassing professional knowledge and moral competences of athletes is of great importance.

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