Comparing Moral Education Models at a Military Academy in Taiwan

• Published in: Journal of academic ethics Vol. 16; no. 2; pp. 173 - 193
• Main Author: Yu, Yi-Ming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.06.2018; BioMed Central, Ltd; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Administration; Beliefs; Between-subjects design; Cognitive Development; College Freshmen; Cultural Pluralism; Education; Educational Change; Educational philosophy; Educational Quality; Effectiveness; Environmental Influences; Ethical Instruction; Ethics; Evaluative Thinking; Extracurricular Activities; Focus Groups; Foreign Countries; Hidden Curriculum; Imitation; Instructional Effectiveness; Integrated Activities; Interviews; Learner Engagement; Military Schools; Moral education; Moral Values; Organization and Leadership; Social Bias; Social Desirability; Social Values; Teaching Methods; Teaching Models; Thinking Skills; Values Clarification; Taiwan; Character education; Virtue education; Personal education; Moral education; Core value; Soldierly ethos

This study compared the effects of three education models, namely, the bag-of-virtues (BV), values clarification (VC), and virtue ethics (VE) models, through qualitative and quantitative approaches. In the quantitative study (Study 1), a between-subjects design was adopted in sampling 120 freshman c...