AIM The purpose of this study was to examine how nurses' moral distress, education level, and critical reflective practice (CRP) related to their work engagement. The study is relevant to nursing, given registered nurse (RN) documented experiences of job-related distress and work dissatisfaction, and the nursing shortage crisis. A better understanding of factors that may enhance RN work engagem...

"If other sources of ethical values have declined in influence, educators have a responsibility to contribute in any way they can to the moral development of their students," writes Derek Bok, the former president of Harvard (Bok, 1976, p. 26). Most educational policy-makers and the public seem to agree that schools and colleges should promote moral development in their students. Yet, there is ...

nurses are often faced with serious situations that require high levels of legal and ethical knowledge, and should therefore be sensitive to the moral issues in their profession in the decision making process. some studies have investigated nurses’ moral self-concept as an effective factor in moral sensitivity, but there is not sufficient evidence to support this. the purpose of this study was ...

the community of ethical inquiry is a special approach of philosophy for children (p4c) in moral education. this paper shows, by the analytical and analogical method, that how the community of inquiry may lead to moral development in children. in other words, we will study theoretical basics of moral development in p4c. for this purpose, we analyze reasonableness and autonomy, critical thinking...

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This theoretical study investigates the importance of cross-cultural competencies, such as communicative skills, for the development of education that enables global citizenship. The study’s hypothesis is the suggestion that arguments against bilingual education in the United States may represent evidence of a transition from a conservative approach to citizenship to a global citizenship. Thus,...

Aristotle considered moral beauty to be the telos of the human virtues (Sachs, 2002). Displays of moral beauty have been shown to elicit the moral emotion of elevation and cause a desire to become a better person and to engage in prosocial behavior. Study 1 (N = 5,380) shows engagement with moral beauty is related to several psychological constructs relevant to moral education, and structural m...

IN 1969 the Association for Super vision and Curriculum Development held a special conference on the hidden or un studied curriculum of the school. My friend Philip Jackson organized the session with papers by Friedenberg, Dreeben, Jackson, and myself. 1 At the time I claimed Jackson's term, the "hidden curriculum," referred to the moral atmosphere of the school, and that the function of the hi...

The author presents a new education project connected with Rawls’ model of a well-ordered society. The most important element of this project is moral education. Modern liberalism (e.g. Th. Pangle) identifies moral education with civic education. The author finds this way of thinking about one’s participation in social and political life rather interesting and needed. However, what does the ant...