Influence of Constructive Controversy on Children's Moral Development: Engaging Young Minds to Become Critical Thinkers and Moral Community Members

Influence of Constructive Controversy on Children's Moral Development: Engaging Young Minds to Become Critical Thinkers and Moral Community Members
ISBN-10
3846508187
ISBN-13
9783846508183
Category
Critical thinking in children
Pages
164
Language
English
Published
2011-09
Publisher
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Author
Michelle Tichy

Description

Constructive Controversy has been increasingly used in educational settings to encourage critical thinking about curricular issues of interest. Most of the research to date has focused on academic achievement and higher order thinking skills in the participants. This study examined the impact constructive controversy had upon students' moral development; specifically looking at Rest's four components of moral development and the associated sets of ethical skills. The students involved were third through fifth graders in two mixed grade classrooms in a suburban public elementary school. Half the participants were assigned to work individualistically on a curriculum based moral issue and the other half were assigned to work on the same issue using the constructive controversy procedure. The constructive controversy procedure had a statistically positive effect on three of the four components of moral development after the two week course of the study.

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