Afrikaans text / Die vlak van morele ontwikkeling van wit A:frikaanssprekende, wit Engelssprekende, swart Sotbosprekende, swart Xhosasprekende en swart Zoeloesprekende adolessente seuns en meisies in vroee, middel- en laatadolessensie (12-19 jaar) in Suid-Afrika is afsonderlik, tussenkultureel en vir geslagsverskille asook ouderdomsverskille ondersoek. Moontlike verbande tussen genoemde groepe se vlak van morele ontwikkeling, stedelike/plattelandse woonomgewing, vlak: van identiteitsontwikkeling en lokus van kontrole-orientasie is ondersoek vir kultuur- en geslagsverskille. Wit en swart adolessente redeneer nie in dieselfde mate op die verskillende stadia van morele ontwikkeling nie en bulle openbaar oak verskillende morele ontwikkelingspatrone. Swart adolessente funksioneer betekenisvol meer as wit adolessente op laer stadia van morele redenering terwyl wit adolessente betekenisvol meer as swart adolessente op boer stadia van morele redenering funksioneer. Wit adolessente toon 'n morele ontwikkelings­ patroon ooreenkomstig Westerse waardes en norme wat ooreenstem met Kohlberg se teorie. Swart adolessente toon 'n andersoortige morele ontwikkelingpatroon wat nie ooreenstem met Kohlberg se teorie nie. Met betrekking tot die wit adolessente groep bereik meisies betekenisvolle boer stadia van morele ontwikkeling as seuns. Wat swart adolessente seuns en meisies betreis geen betekenisvolle geslagsverskille ten opsigte van vlak van morele redenering gevind nie. Morele ontwikkeling verloop ooreenkomstig ouderdom in stadia volgens 'n spesifieke patroon. Jonger adolessente funksioneer in 'n grater mate op laer stadia van morele redenering as ouer adolessente terwyl ouer adolessente meer tekens van boer stadia van morele redenering as jonger adolessente toon. Verskille in die morele ontwikkeling van adolessente seuns wat uit 'n stedelike omgewing kom en die wat op die platteland woon bet nie voorgekom nie. Stedelike adolessente meisies funksioneer in 'n grater mate as plattelandse adolessente meisies op boer vlakke van morele ontwikkeling. Ten opsigte van wit adolessente het 'n betekenisvolle verband tussen vlak van morele ontwikkeling en vlak van identiteitsontwikkeling voorgekom. By swart adolessente is sodanige verband nie gevind nie. Geen verband tussen vlak van morele ontwikkeling en lokus van kontrole-orientasie vir wit en swart adolessente in Suid-Afrika is aangetoon nie. Die bevindings is verklaar aan die hand van verskillende tipes sosialisering, sosiokulturele faktore, kultuur-historiese aspekte en adolessente se ontwikkelingkenmerke. / The level of moral development of white Afrikaans speaking, white English speaking, black Sotho speaking, black Xhosa speaking and black Zulu speaking adolescent boys and girls in early, middle and late adolescence {12-19 years) in South Africa was investigated separately, cross-culturally and with regard to gender differences and age differences. Possible relationships between level of moral development and urban/country living environments, level of identity development and locus of control orientation for the above­ mentioned groups were also investigated for cultural and gender differences. White and black adolescents do not reason to the same extent at different stages of moral development and they exhibit different moral developmental patterns. Black adolescents function significantly more than white adolescents at lower stages of moral reasoning while white adolescents function significantly more than black adolescents at higher stages of moral reasoning. White adolescents reveal a moral developmental pattern in line with Western values and norms which corresponds with Kohlberg's theory. Black adolescents reveal a different moral developmental pattern which does not correspond with Kohlberg's theory. With regard to the white adolescent group, girls reach significantly higher stages of moral development than boys. With regard to black adolescent boys and girls, no significant gender differences in level of moral reasoning were found. Moral development takes place in accordance with age in stages according to a specific pattern. Younger adolescents function more at lower moral reasoning stages than older adolescents while older adolescents display more signs of higher moral reasoning stages than younger adolescents. No differences in the moral development of adolescent boys who come from urban environments and those from country districts were found. Girls from urban environments function significantly more than girls from country districts at higher levels of moral development. A significant relationship was found between level of moral development and level of identity development for white adolesceJJtS. No such relationship was found for black adolescents. No relationship between level of moral development and locus of control orientation for white and black adolescents in South Africa was found. The findings were considered in relation to different types of socialisation, socio-cultural factors, culture-historical aspects and adolescent developmental characteristics. / Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Sielkunde)

Este estudo discute as diferenças entre homens e mulheres com relação ao julgamento moral. Estas diferenças são abordadas também quanto ao gênero dos indivíduos. Gênero é o conjunto de atribuições psicológicas dado ao sujeito a partir do seu sexo biológico. Os indivíduos de ambos os sexos podem ser categorizados de acordo com seu gênero como indiferenciados, tipificados sexualmente (masculino, feminino) e andróginos. Os estudos sobre a moralidade têm sido realizados enfatizando as diferenças entre os indivíduos de cada sexo biológico. Este aspecto mereceu atenção especial devido a fortes críticas ao sexismo da teoria e metodologia kohlbergiana, por ter sido postulada por um homem e considerar as questões morais sob um ponto de vista masculino, apresentando resultados colhidos com sujeitos do sexo masculino obtidos através de um instrumento com dilemas morais protagonizados principalmente por homens. Visando controlar estes problemas metodológicos, este estudo propõe a utilização de protagonistas de ambos os sexos nos dilemas morais e a obtenção de dados de sujeitos de ambos os sexos. Foram testados 300 estudantes universitários com idade entre 18 e 25 anos. Destes foram escolhidos 180 sujeitos categorizados como andrógenos (60), indiferenciados,(60) e tipificados sexualmente (60), metade de cada sexo. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: o "BSRI" (Bem Sexual Role Inventory), produzido por Bem (1974, 1977) e traduzido e adaptado para o Brasil em 1982 por Oliveira, e o "MJI" (Moral Judgement Interview) de Kohlberg, em duas formas: (a) com o sexo do protagonista masculino e (b) com o sexo do protagonista feminino. Uma ANOVA revelou que: (1) existem diferenças de gênero no julgamento moral; (2) andróginos apresentam maiores níveis de julgamento moral do que os indiferenciados; (3) o sexo do protagonista não afeta as respostas de sujeitos de gêneros e sexos diferentes; (4) não há diferenças de sexo no nível de julgamento moral. A discussão dos resultados é feita à luz da abordagem cognitiva do desenvolvimento moral e sexual e enfatiza a proposição da variável gênero nos estudos sobre a moralidade.

Este estudo discute as diferenças entre homens e mulheres com relação ao julgamento moral. Estas diferenças são abordadas também quanto ao gênero dos indivíduos. Gênero é o conjunto de atribuições psicológicas dado ao sujeito a partir do seu sexo biológico. Os indivíduos de ambos os sexos podem ser categorizados de acordo com seu gênero como indiferenciados, tipificados sexualmente (masculino, feminino) e andróginos. Os estudos sobre a moralidade têm sido realizados enfatizando as diferenças entre os indivíduos de cada sexo biológico. Este aspecto mereceu atenção especial devido a fortes críticas ao sexismo da teoria e metodologia kohlbergiana, por ter sido postulada por um homem e considerar as questões morais sob um ponto de vista masculino, apresentando resultados colhidos com sujeitos do sexo masculino obtidos através de um instrumento com dilemas morais protagonizados principalmente por homens. Visando controlar estes problemas metodológicos, este estudo propõe a utilização de protagonistas de ambos os sexos nos dilemas morais e a obtenção de dados de sujeitos de ambos os sexos. Foram testados 300 estudantes universitários com idade entre 18 e 25 anos. Destes foram escolhidos 180 sujeitos categorizados como andrógenos (60), indiferenciados,(60) e tipificados sexualmente (60), metade de cada sexo. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: o "BSRI" (Bem Sexual Role Inventory), produzido por Bem (1974, 1977) e traduzido e adaptado para o Brasil em 1982 por Oliveira, e o "MJI" (Moral Judgement Interview) de Kohlberg, em duas formas: (a) com o sexo do protagonista masculino e (b) com o sexo do protagonista feminino. Uma ANOVA revelou que: (1) existem diferenças de gênero no julgamento moral; (2) andróginos apresentam maiores níveis de julgamento moral do que os indiferenciados; (3) o sexo do protagonista não afeta as respostas de sujeitos de gêneros e sexos diferentes; (4) não há diferenças de sexo no nível de julgamento moral. A discussão dos resultados é feita à luz da abordagem cognitiva do desenvolvimento moral e sexual e enfatiza a proposição da variável gênero nos estudos sobre a moralidade.

The purpose of this dissertation was to conduct an outcomes-based program evaluation for the Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) campus of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. The study included one primary research question, with two subquestions. The primary research question asked to what extent students in the program developed moral judgment consistent with program goals of rehabilitating students and preparing them for effective ministry. The first subquestion asked whether statistically significant differences existed in the moral reasoning of students of different class years. The second subquestion asked whether statistically significant differences existed in the moral reasoning of students of different personality types. A cross-sectional study was conducted with students during the fall of 2005 using the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT-2) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) instruments. All 101 program students were invited to participate in the study. To provide a benchmark for student scores, 30 Seminary faculty members were asked to complete the DIT-2. The student response rates were 94% for the DIT-2 instrument and 97% for the MBTI instrument. The response rate for faculty was 20%. After removing two outliers from the freshmen class, statistically significant differences were found in the principled moral reasoning scores (P scores) of freshmen (m = 22.146, sd = 12.002) and juniors (m = 30.274, sd = 13.165). No significant differences were found in moral reasoning based upon personality types. The mean P score among faculty members was 34.02 (sd = 15.25). In response to the primary research question, it was determined student scores did show moral reasoning differences consistent with the program goals. Conclusions reached in this study were limited because of the cross-sectional design. Further research is necessary before conclusions may be generalized beyond the sample.

The focus of this research was to identify the moral reasoning and moral judgment of elementary school principals who serve in high-poverty schools. The study was undertaken at the request of the client public school district who was attempting to identify characteristics of current elementary principals serving in high-poverty schools. Two research questions guided this study concerning the moral operational level of the principals. The theoretical framework of the study was based on the work of Lawrence Kohlberg and his stages of moral development. Participating principals were administered the Defining Issues Test-2 (DIT-2), a pencil-paper questionnaire that presented five moral dilemmas and a series of statements asking for the participant to rank solutions to the dilemmas. The results indicated that the majority of participants operated from lower levels of moral development, reasoning, and judgment. Participants’ scores were matched with their schools’ performance grades. There was not an indication that high moral scores and high school performance were linked. This study confirmed the results of an early study conducted by Vitton and Wasonga (2009) and encourages a deeper examination of the results of accountability and principal decision making.

Previous research by Vitton & Wasonga (2009) and Strenth (2013) found public school K-12 principals struggling in the moral reasoning and decision-making measures of the second Defining Issues Test ("DIT-2"). In response to these studies, this research sought to collect, to examine, and to compare DIT-2 data for educational leaders at various stages of the principalship track in an effort to determine and/or to isolate the locus of principals' reported underperformance. The moral reasoning and decision-making of regular-education K-12 public school principals and assistant principals in Florida, and current master's degree students in educational leadership programs at a large public Florida university were measured and compared. Research questions were posed: 1) to find the levels of moral reasoning and decision-making reached by acting principals, acting assistant principals, and current master's students in educational leadership programs; 2) to determine if there was a difference between these principals, assistant principals, and master's students in moral reasoning and decision-making; and 3) to see if there was a difference in moral reasoning and decision-making between principals across various years of experience. The DIT-2 was administered anonymously to participants through an online link, and was scored by the University of Alabama's Office for the Study of Ethical Development. Data were analyzed through descriptive and inferential statistical methods principally to determine the degree to which participants reasoned and made decisions based upon personal interests, upon the maintenance of norms, or upon the basis of more sophisticated principles. Results showed master's students in educational leadership outperforming active principals and assistant principals in moral reasoning and decision-making by more often employing sophisticated principles and by more often avoiding choices associated with personal interests. With regard to principals, the difference was statistically significant on DIT-2 N-2 scores (based on ANOVA and t-test results) and P-scores (based on t-test results, but not based on ANOVA results). Principals not only underperformed master's students in educational leadership statistically significantly, but also underperformed active assistant principals in comparisons of group means on DIT-2 sub-scores. This research confirms the prior works of Strenth (2013) and Vitton & Wasonga (2009), where principals had been found to struggle in measures of moral reasoning and decision-making. These consecutive and consistent findings now require consideration, discussion, and action by the array of K-12 public school stakeholders. In response to the startling findings that K-12 principals are significantly underperforming those still aspiring for the principalship, a substantial, alarmed, and sober re-examination must take place as to what has happened to principals in K-12 public schools, and as to what can and must be done about it.

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Cette thèse traite, dans une perspective philosophique, de l'intérêt éthique du dialogue pour l’éducation morale, en utilisant plus spécifiquement comme cadre théorique l’éthique de la sollicitude de Nel Noddings. Après avoir élaboré une analyse critique du paradigme moral que représente le dialogue « à la Socrate », notre thèse adresse la question de la portée éthique du dialogue dans le contexte spécifique de l’éducation morale contemporaine, en examinant trois théories éducatives spécialement influentes au Québec : celles de Lawrence Kohlberg, de John Wilson et de Matthew Lipman. Notre recherche présente un examen critique des conceptions du dialogue défendues dans ces théories. Elle propose une manière différente d’appréhender le dialogue moral qui devient, à travers l’éthique de la sollicitude, lié autant à un savoir être-en-relation qu’à un savoir raisonner. La thèse vient enfin démontrer la portée du « virage éthique » que la perspective relationnelle de sollicitude détermine pour éduquer au dialogue moral.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:35:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dulciane_Alves_Luczkiewicz.pdf: 1466208 bytes, checksum: 50c6d7ca5e70b801f461de01e4c4b189 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-18 / The objective of this study was to analyze, considering the brazilian cultural diversity, if there is a statistically meaningful difference in the level of moral development of Accounting students from different universities. The study was based on Kohlberg's moral development Theory, which presents three stages of moral development: pre-conventional (stages 1 and 2), conventional (stages 3 and 4) and post-conventional (stages 5 and 6), and on Hofstede's Culture Theory, which presents the following dimensions: power distance, collectivism versus individualism, femininity versus masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation versus short term orientation. The results were obtained through a descriptive analysis, ANOVA test, equality of proportion test, Pearson's correlation, confidence interval for average and p-value. The variables related to moral development, age, gender, religion and professional experience did not present statistically meaningful difference in the regions surveyed, what did not occur with the variable education, which proved to be a strong and consistent variable when compared to moral development. This study also aimed to verify if Hofstede's cultural dimensions presented significance between the studied regions. Difference was found in the following dimensions: power distance, individualism and long-term orientation. It is also possible to observe that the p index of moral development presents a statistically meaningful relation with the regions. Another important find in this study is that there is no statistically meaningful relation between the p index of moral development and the cultural values among the students that participated in this research in the regions surveyed. / Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo analisar, considerando-se as diversidades culturais do Brasil, se h?? diferen??a estatisticamente significativa em rela????o ao n??vel de desenvolvimento moral dos estudantes de gradua????o de Ci??ncias Cont??beis de diferentes Institui????es de Ensino Superior. Para tanto, utilizou-se como base a Teoria do desenvolvimento moral de Kohlberg, que postula em sua teoria tr??s n??veis de desenvolvimento moral: o pr??-convencional (est??gios 1 e 2), o convencional (est??gios 3 e 4) e o p??s-convencional (est??gios 5 e 6), e a Teoria da Cultura de Hofstede, que est?? definida nas seguintes dimens??es: dist??ncia do poder, coletivismo versus individualismo, feminilidade versus masculinidade, controle da incerteza e orienta????o de longo prazo versus curto prazo. Os resultados foram obtidos atrav??s de an??lise descritiva, teste ANOVA, teste de igualdade de propor????es, correla????o de Pearson, intervalo de confian??a para m??dia e p-valor. As vari??veis relacionadas com o Desenvolvimento Moral, idade, g??nero, religi??o e experi??ncia profissional, n??o tiveram diferen??as estatisticamente significativas nas regi??es pesquisadas, diferentemente da vari??vel educa????o, que comprovou ser uma vari??vel forte e consistente quando comparada com o desenvolvimento moral. Buscou-se ainda verificar se as dimens??es culturais de Hofstede tinham ou n??o signific??ncia entre as regi??es pesquisadas. Constatou-se diferen??a nas dimens??es dist??ncia do poder, individualismo e orienta????o a longo prazo. Nota-se ainda que o ??ndice p do desenvolvimento moral possui rela????o estatisticamente significante entre as regi??es. Outro achado importante nesta pesquisa foi que n??o h?? rela????o estatisticamente significativa entre o ??ndice p do desenvolvimento moral com os valores culturais entre os estudantes das regi??es pesquisadas.

The thesis deals with the moral thinking of youth in its adolescent age. The first part deals with the basic ethic terms and with historical development of ethic thinking. The thesis deals further with determinants, which influence the moral development of thinking of a man including primary and secondary socialisation and the influence of a state. The theoretical part ends with a chapter dealing with the psychological aspects of development of moral judgement, where are described the particular stages of moral development according to Lawrence Kohlberg. The practical part deals with the research in a given group according to Kohlberg. The research is made with regard to family background of an individual. Except for reactions to Heinz´s dilemma, there are researched the differences between moral attitudes of men and women and the differences between individuals coming from villages or cities. The aim of this thesis is to judge, if it is possible from the stage of a moral judgement of the researched adoloscents, judge a relation according to the context of their experience in the family. The research showed some influences to moral thinking of a man, but it is not possible to determine the convincing conclusions. The man is to complicated human being, whose moral quality shows the concrete and practical situation only.