Standard ways of conceptualizing moral development and measuring pedagogical interventions in ethics classes privilege the growth judgment over sensitivity, motivation, habits by too often conflating improvement with holistic development. I argue here that if we care about students’ construction cultivation their ethical selves, our assessment design principles ought to take seriously transform...

We explored the content of possible selves of low-income mothers and the strategies they have to work on their possible selves. Positive, expected possible selves focused on getting a job, making ends meet and caregiving. Negative, to-be-avoided possible selves focused on failing to make ends meet, losing (or not getting) jobs, and problems with mental health. Immediate social context, rather t...

Previously depressed and never-depressed individuals identified personal characteristics (self-guides) defining their ideal, ought, and feared selves. One week later they completed the autobiographical memory test (AMT). For each participant the number of AMT cues that reflected self-guide content was determined to produce an index of AMT cue self-relevance. Individuals who had never been depre...

Medicine is a moral enterprise, and medical educators have a primary moral and professional obligation to students to teach, evaluate and nurture this aspect of the curriculum. We assume our students enter medical school as persons of conscience, and that our job as teachers, in addition to helping them master facts, critical and clinical thinking and skills, is to promote their development int...

L2 (second/foreign language) motivation research in Finland has been scarce. Furthermore, international motivational focused more on ideal and ought-to selves, leaving the current self-concept background. In present study, we attempted to address this gap, exploring what shapes L1 (mother tongue) Finnish students' understanding of themselves as users learners L2s. Using structural equation mode...

We assessed 93 international students' reports of their expected and feared possible selves in terms of their thematic content and configuration, and examined the relations between possible selves and cultural adjustment in Canada. The results showed that international students mostly envisioned possible selves in career, education, intrapersonal, and interpersonal domains, and reported more ba...