Learning Global Citizenship Skills in a Democratic Setting: An Analysis of the Efficacy of a Moral Development Method Applied in China
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2014
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Uniwersytet im. A. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu Wydział Nauk Społecznych, Instytut Filozofii UAM
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Abstract
To reduce the limitations of current measures of morality,
and to focus on an effective approach to moral development among
university students, the researchers adopted the Konstanz Method
of Dilemma Discussion, to probe whether this type of method
can also be applied among Chinese students, regarding the development
of moral competence. ‘Moral Competence’, also known as
‘moral-democratic’ competence, is a concept developed by German
psychologist, Professor Georg Lind. It is built upon the theories
of Kohlberg, yet focuses on moral judgment and democratic
decision-making competence. Lind designed a scale based on his
dual-aspect theory, and suggested a follow-up method for building
up moral competence. KMDD has been used in Germany and
other countries for many years and has achieved positive results
when applied. The initial application of this type of method in China
started in 2012. After more than two years’ of planning and
research, we used this method with different groups of Chineseuniversity students and tested its efficacy. Participants were set
as the control and experiment groups. After analysing the preand-
post-test data from all the participants, the result shows that
the intervention effect with experiment groups was very significant
with a noticeable Absolute Effect Size of C-score, while the
competence score of control group regressed sharply due to reasons
to be identified. Data from the experiment were analysed
and intervention results were compared, to examine the efficacy
of the method and to evaluate further application and research
of KMDD in China.
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moral competence, moral development, intervention experiment, university students, moral cognition, democratic communication
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Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2014 Tom 3, Nr 2, s. 36-56.
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978-83-7092-161-3