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Direct linkSaculla, Meghan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The moral reasoning development of college freshmen was investigated over the course of a semester. Participants were tested at the beginning of the semester and at the end of the semester and were either in a course that required active engagement in critical thinking (e.g. perspective-taking, reflection) about social and political issues or in a…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Moral Development, Abstract Reasoning, Epistemology
Peer reviewedColesante, Robert J.; Biggs, Donald A. – Journal of Moral Education, 1999
Examines the narrative and propositional approaches to teaching about tolerance in relation to moral and political controversial issues. Indicates that students gave the teacher higher approval ratings, perceived the teacher as more attractive, and remembered more when the teacher used the narrative approach to explain conflicting positions on an…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Cultural Pluralism, Higher Education
