Assessing Virtue: Measurement in Moral Education at Home and Abroad

Autor/in	Alexander, Hanan A.
Titel	Assessing Virtue: Measurement in Moral Education at Home and Abroad
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 11 (2016) 3, S.310-325 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
DOI	10.1080/17449642.2016.1240385
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Moral Values; Moral Development; Statistical Analysis; Qualitative Research; Ethical Instruction; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Moralische Entwicklung; Statistische Analyse; Qualitative Forschung; Ethics instruction; Teaching of ethics; Ethikunterricht
Abstract	How should we assess programs dedicated to education in virtue? One influential answer draws on quantitative research designs. By measuring the inputs and processes that produce the highest levels of virtue among participants according to some reasonable criterion, in this view, we can determine which programs engender the most desired results. Although many outcomes of character education can undoubtedly be assessed in this way, taken on its own, this approach may support favorable judgments about programs that indoctrinate rather than educate, because education in character entails teleological thinking that is volitional not merely determined. I argue instead that proper assessment of virtue requires an expansive view of character education in both particular and common goods that avoids the tendency to indoctrinate and an inclusive conception of measurement that takes into account qualitative in addition to quantitative methodologies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01