Towards an integrated model of moral functioning: an overview of the Special Issue
2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 37; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/03057240802227643
ISSN1465-3877
AutoresDon Collins Reed, Riley M. Stoermer,
Tópico(s)Academic integrity and plagiarism
ResumoAbstract The collection of essays in this Special Issue embodies an aspiration for an integrated, multi‐level model of moral functioning. Our goal in this overview is to draw together some of the salient insights in the six papers in the volume and to suggest some further directions for research about moral functioning. Our observations fall into eight categories, concerning moral cognitive development between paradigms, the importance of early experience, the distinction between implicit/tacit and explicit/deliberative processes in moral cognition, the judgment–action gap, the importance of interaction and perspective‐taking, the mediating role of culture, the not‐so‐menacing spectre of postmodernism and moral relativism and the educational implications of these themes in these papers, with special reference to the Just Community projects. Our observations are a prelude, we hope, to suggest and stimulate further discussions. Acknowledgements Thirteen scholars assisted with the preparation of the papers in this volume by offering comments as reviewers for the papers, in some cases on more than one paper, including Daan Brugman, Dan Hart, Bruce Maxwell, Gerhard Minnameier, Bill Puka, Derek Sankey, Steve Sherblom, Jan Steutel, Riley Stoermer, Mark Tappan, Monica Taylor, Peter Tomlinson and Elliot Turiel. Their generous and timely assistance was invaluable.
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