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Saetbyul Kim; Tzu-Jung Lin; Michael Glassman; Seung Yon Ha; Ziye Wen; Manisha Nagpal; Trent N. Cash; Elizabeth Kraatz – Journal of Moral Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine whether justifying one's own social knowledge (moral, societal, psychological) toward complex social-moral issues through collaborative argumentation was associated with the improvement of social perspective taking for elementary students. A total of 129 5th graders (52% female, Mage = 10.98) from six…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Social Attitudes, Diversity, Persuasive Discourse
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Kouki, Elina; Virta, Arja – Educational Practice and Theory, 2016
The aim of this study is to examine upper secondary students' (n = 96) argumentation skills and ability to discuss a controversial issue: the evacuation of Finnish children to Sweden and other Nordic countries because of the war. According to their essays written on the basis of multifaceted and contradictory sources, most of the students were not…
Descriptors: Ethics, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Secondary School Students, Persuasive Discourse
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Rantala, Jukka; Manninen, Marika; van den Berg, Marko – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2016
In 2011, the Finnish National Board of Education assessed the learning outcomes of history with a study whose results raised doubts about the fulfilment of the goals of history education. This article seeks to expand awareness about Finnish adolescents' understanding of historical empathy. The study assessed twenty-two 16-17-year-old high school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Adolescents, Empathy