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Schoeman, S. – Africa Education Review, 2012
The Norms and Standards for Educators (2000) recognises a well-defined community, citizenship and pastoral role as one of seven roles of a competent and qualified educator. In 2005 a module dealing with the pastoral role was introduced as part of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE--Senior Phase and FET) programme in the institution…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Caring, Learning Modules
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Juujarvi, Soile; Myyry, Liisa; Pesso, Kaija – Journal of Moral Education, 2010
The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between care and justice reasoning, dispositional empathy variables and meta-ethical thinking among 128 students from a university of applied sciences. The measures were Skoe's Ethic of Care Interview, the Defining Issues Test, Davis's Interpersonal Reactivity Index and Meta-Ethical…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Perspective Taking, Ethics, Empathy
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de Villiers, Rian – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2011
The care and use of animals in education and medical research are very controversial and emotional public issues. Society needs to discuss these issues to reach an ethical stand. A sample of 118 sciences student teachers from a South African university responded to a questionnaire on animal rights and using animals for food, clothes, sport,…
Descriptors: Animals, Science Activities, Scientific Research, Animal Husbandry
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Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly; Rosenblatt, Zehava – Journal of Educational Administration, 2010
Purpose: This paper aims to offer a theoretical framework for linking school ethical climate with teachers' voluntary absence. The paper attempts to explain this relationship using the concept of affective organizational commitment. Design/methodology/approach: Participants were 1,016 school teachers from 35 high schools in Israel. Data were…
Descriptors: Caring, Teacher Attendance, Foreign Countries, Organizational Climate
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Gano-Overway, Lori A.; Newton, Maria; Magyar, T. Michelle; Fry, Mary D.; Kim, Mi-Sook; Guivernau, Marta R. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
Understanding what factors influence positive youth development has been advocated by youth development researchers (P. L. Benson, 2006; J. S. Eccles & J. A. Gootman, 2002). Consequently, the purpose of this study was to examine whether perceptions of a caring youth sport context influenced prosocial and antisocial behavior through…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Antisocial Behavior, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy