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Values and Moral Education
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What is Values and Moral Education?
Values and Moral Education is the cluster of educational practices and research focused on character education in schools, teacher training, curriculum implementation, values education, moral development, citizenship education, and their effects on student behavior and school climate.
This field encompasses 23,998 works examining moral development and character building through school-based programs. Key studies include Piaget's "The Moral Judgment Of The Child" with 4407 citations and Cloninger's "The temperament and character inventory (TCI) : a guide to its development and use" with 2344 citations. Research addresses teacher beliefs and professional practices as in Usman's "MENJADI GURU PROFESIONAL" (2168 citations) and Nespor's "<i>The role of beliefs in the practice of teaching</i>" (2027 citations).
Topic Hierarchy
Research Sub-Topics
Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development
Researchers investigate the stages of moral reasoning proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg, including progression from preconventional to postconventional levels. Studies examine empirical validations, cultural variations, and critiques using dilemmas like the Heinz scenario.
Character Education Programs
This sub-topic covers school-based interventions aimed at fostering virtues like respect and responsibility through structured curricula. Researchers evaluate program efficacy on student behavior and school climate via randomized trials and longitudinal data.
Moral Exemplars in Education
Studies explore how narratives of historical or contemporary moral heroes shape students' values and ethical decision-making. Research includes qualitative analyses of exemplar impact and experimental designs testing narrative interventions.
Teacher Beliefs and Moral Pedagogy
Researchers analyze how teachers' personal moral philosophies influence classroom practices and values transmission. Quantitative and qualitative studies link teacher training to effective moral instruction.
Citizenship Education Frameworks
This area examines curricula promoting civic virtues, democratic participation, and global citizenship in schools. Comparative studies assess national programs' impacts on student civic engagement and tolerance.
Why It Matters
Values and Moral Education influences student behavior and school climate through targeted character programs. Lickona's "Educating for character: how our schools can teach respect and responsibility" (1992, 1840 citations) details classroom strategies for teaching respect and responsibility, drawing from decades of experience in values education. Turiel's "The Development of Morality" (2007, 2155 citations) analyzes theoretical approaches to moral development, applying them to educational settings. Lipman's "Thinking in Education" (2003, 1308 citations) provides procedures for infusing critical thinking into curricula, enhancing moral reasoning across school levels. Kohlberg's "FROM IS TO OUGHT: How to Commit the Naturalistic Fallacy and Get Away with It in the Study of Moral Development" (1971, 1112 citations) examines derivations of moral ought from empirical is, informing curriculum design in moral psychology.
Reading Guide
Where to Start
"Educating for character: how our schools can teach respect and responsibility" by Thomas Lickona (1992), as it provides practical school-based strategies for values education accessible to new researchers.
Key Papers Explained
Piaget's "The Moral Judgment Of The Child" (2013, 4407 citations) lays foundational child moral stages, extended by Turiel's "The Development of Morality" (2007, 2155 citations) through theoretical reviews and Kohlberg's "FROM IS TO OUGHT: How to Commit the Naturalistic Fallacy and Get Away with It in the Study of Moral Development" (1971, 1112 citations) via normative derivations. Lickona's "Educating for character: how our schools can teach respect and responsibility" (1992, 1840 citations) applies these to classrooms, while Lipman's "Thinking in Education" (2003, 1308 citations) adds critical thinking methods. Cloninger's "The temperament and character inventory (TCI) : a guide to its development and use" (1994, 2344 citations) supplies assessment tools building on prior development models.
Paper Timeline
Most-cited paper highlighted in red. Papers ordered chronologically.
Advanced Directions
Current work builds on top-cited foundations like Piaget, Turiel, and Kohlberg, with no recent preprints or news available, directing focus to integrating teacher training from Usman and Nespor with moral judgment practices from Anderson and Herman.
Papers at a Glance
| # | Paper | Year | Venue | Citations | Open Access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Moral Judgment Of The Child | 2013 | — | 4.4K | ✕ |
| 2 | The temperament and character inventory (TCI) : a guide to its... | 1994 | Medical Entomology and... | 2.3K | ✕ |
| 3 | MENJADI GURU PROFESIONAL | 2011 | Remaja Rosdakarya eBooks | 2.2K | ✕ |
| 4 | The Development of Morality | 2007 | — | 2.2K | ✕ |
| 5 | <i>The role of beliefs in the practice of teaching</i> | 1987 | Journal of Curriculum ... | 2.0K | ✕ |
| 6 | Educating for character: how our schools can teach respect and... | 1992 | Bantam Books | 1.8K | ✕ |
| 7 | Thinking in Education | 2003 | Cambridge University P... | 1.3K | ✕ |
| 8 | FROM IS TO OUGHT: How to Commit the Naturalistic Fallacy and G... | 1971 | Elsevier eBooks | 1.1K | ✕ |
| 9 | The Practice of Moral Judgment. | 1994 | The Philosophical Review | 1.0K | ✕ |
| 10 | Morality, moral behavior, and moral development | 1984 | Wiley eBooks | 1.0K | ✕ |
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the historical roots of moral development theory?
Piaget's "The Moral Judgment Of The Child" (2013, 4407 citations) establishes foundational insights into children's moral reasoning stages. Turiel's "The Development of Morality" (2007, 2155 citations) reviews major theoretical approaches, starting from historical psychology of morality roots. Kohlberg's "FROM IS TO OUGHT: How to Commit the Naturalistic Fallacy and Get Away with It in the Study of Moral Development" (1971, 1112 citations) addresses naturalistic fallacy issues in deriving moral norms from facts.
How does character education apply in schools?
Lickona's "Educating for character: how our schools can teach respect and responsibility" (1992, 1840 citations) outlines school programs to foster respect and responsibility. Lipman's "Thinking in Education" (2003, 1308 citations) infuses critical thinking into disciplines for moral development. These approaches target student behavior and school climate improvements.
What role do teacher beliefs play in moral education?
Nespor's "<i>The role of beliefs in the practice of teaching</i>" (1987, 2027 citations) shows beliefs shape teaching practices in values education. Usman's "MENJADI GURU PROFESIONAL" (2011, 2168 citations) covers professional teacher training for moral instruction. Beliefs influence curriculum implementation in character building.
What tools assess moral character?
Cloninger's "The temperament and character inventory (TCI) : a guide to its development and use" (1994, 2344 citations) provides a validated inventory for temperament and character traits. It supports measurement in moral development studies. The TCI guides applications in educational settings.
How is moral judgment practiced philosophically?
Anderson and Herman's "The Practice of Moral Judgment" (1994, 1034 citations) analyzes practical moral decision-making frameworks. Gewirtz and Kurtines' "Morality, moral behavior, and moral development" (1984, 1011 citations) links judgment to behavior in development. These inform educational moral training.
Open Research Questions
- ? How do empirical observations of child moral judgment translate into prescriptive educational oughts, as raised in Kohlberg's naturalistic fallacy analysis?
- ? In what ways do teacher beliefs mediate the implementation of values curricula in diverse school climates?
- ? How can temperament inventories like TCI integrate with character education to predict student moral behavior changes?
- ? What sequences connect historical moral psychology roots to modern citizenship education outcomes?
- ? How do philosophical practices of moral judgment apply to real-time classroom moral development interventions?
Recent Trends
The field maintains 23,998 works with no specified 5-year growth rate.
Citation leaders remain stable, with Piaget's "The Moral Judgment Of The Child" at 4407 citations and Cloninger's TCI at 2344.
No recent preprints or news coverage in the last 12 months indicate steady reliance on established papers like Lickona (1840 citations) for character education applications.
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