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Honesty: Respect for the Right Not to Be Deceived
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Sungwoo Um – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
In this paper, I explore the characteristic reason that motivates a virtuously honest person to perform honest actions. I critically examine previous accounts of honesty's characteristic motivating reason, including Christian Miller's pluralistic account, which allows various virtuous motivating reasons to count as honesty's motivation. I then…
Descriptors: Ethics, Moral Values, Behavior Patterns, Teaching Methods
Considering Morally Relevant Theory of Mind through a Social Domain Theory Perspective
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Andrews, Katherine; Talwar, Victoria – Journal of Moral Education, 2023
In order to extend research on children's Theory of Mind (ToM) within moral development, researchers have proposed a novel area of research, Morally Relevant ToM. It has been argued to better account for the moral and social considerations that children are required to make when using their ToM abilities in real life situations. To further the…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Moral Development, Social Theories, Moral Values
Moral Disengagement and Children's Propensity to Tell Coached Lies
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Doyle, Frances Lee; Bussey, Kay – Journal of Moral Education, 2018
This study investigated the relationship between children's proneness to endorse moral disengagement mechanisms and their anticipated antisocial lie telling. Participants were 107 predominantly white Australian children in Grade 1 (27 boys, 27 girls; M[subscript age] = 6.69 years) and Grade 4 (24 boys, 29 girls; M[subscript age] = 9.69 years).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Antisocial Behavior, Deception
Moral Attention: A Comparative Philosophical Study
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Gendron, Claude – Journal of Moral Education, 2016
The notion of moral attention allows the recognition of fundamental aspects of ethical life ignored or neglected by mainstream ethical theories. It is central to the theories of several notable female ethicists and many of them identify the French philosopher Simone Weil as the source of the contemporary use of this concept which invites…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Ethics, Ethical Instruction
Effects of Intrinsic Motivation and Informative Feedback in Service-Learning on the Development of College Students' Life Purpose
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Shin, Jongho; Kim, Myung-Seop; Hwang, Hyeyoung; Lee, Byung-Yoon – Journal of Moral Education, 2018
This study applied self-determination theory to youth purpose development among Korean college students. It examined the effects of students' intrinsic motivation for volunteering and informative feedback from significant others on three dimensions of life purpose: confidence in purpose, commitment to purpose and social contribution. The study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Service Learning, Self Determination
Touching the Challenge: Embodied Solutions Enabling Humanistic Moral Education
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Schwarz-Franco, Orit – Journal of Moral Education, 2016
One of the main educational challenges we still face today--more than ever--is the humanistic challenge, namely how to promote humanistic moral values, how to strengthen in students the motivation to be morally active, and especially how to help them recognize the other as a human subject. I adopt Nel Noddings' approach of relational ethics of…
Descriptors: Humanistic Education, Moral Development, Ethical Instruction, Moral Values