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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.101.024.202004.608-621
Teachers’ Readiness to Develop Students’ Moral Concepts in Innovative Educational Contexts
Leila T. Potanina
Professor of the Vygotsky Institute of Psychology, Russian State University for the Humanities (6 Miusskaya S., Moscow 125993, Russian Federation), Dr.Sci. (Psychol.), Associate Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5132-9127, Scopus ID: 24344722400, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Julia V. Koinova-Zoellner
Researcher/Lecturer of the Department of General Didactics and Empirical Lesson Study, Dresden University of Technology (5 Weberplatz, Dresden 01062, Germany), Cand.Sci. (Ed.), Ph.D., ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3414-2491, Scopus ID: 57189378254, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tatyana V. Sklyarova
Dean of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University (6 bd. 1 Likhov Pereulok, Moscow 127051, Russian Federation), Dr.Sci. (Ed.), Professor, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1169-5624, Scopus ID: 57202195235, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Introduction. The development of students’ moral beliefs about the world is an essential component in the process of moral education. Various issues concerned with the transmission of moral and ethical values across generations are investigated in the theory and practice of vocational education. However, the problem of teachers’ value perceptions about the world as a means of developing students’ value systems has attracted little research attention. For the first time, this study aims to identify the levels of teachers’ value perceptions about the world as their most important competence in developing students’ moral beliefs.
Materials and Methods. The research sample included 216 teachers from different regions of the Russian Federation. On the basis of a review of available scientific publications, a theoretical analysis and systematization of Russian and foreign experience in the moral and ethical development of school-age students was carried out. The empirical research consisted in a survey aimed at revealing the respondents’ attitude towards improvement of their professional competencies in the field of moral and ethical education. The teachers’ value perceptions about the world were identified using two series of the projective technique “Incomplete sentence...”.
Results. The conducted empirical research confirmed the hypothesis that teachers’ competence in implementing the moral and ethical education of schoolchildren is based on their existing value systems. An analysis of the respondents’ beliefs about objects and facts of reality from the standpoint of their own value system allowed two levels of value perceptions to be revealed: value-associative and meaning-generating, which differ in the nature of the moral categorization of objects and phenomena of the world.
Discussion and Conclusion. The study confirmed the significance of teachers’ professional and personal competences in developing students’ moral and ethical values. The findings can be of interest for teachers, tutors, psychologists, professors and those investigating various aspects of the process of forming students’ moral values.
Keywords: moral concepts, moral judgments, transmitting values, meaning-generating activity, moral categorization, moral and ethical competence of a teacher, moral and ethical education of students
Funding: The study was supported by a grant of the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 19-013-00648).
Acknowledgments: The authors express their gratitude to the Pravolimp.ru portal and Victoria Tufrina, the administrator of the Russian National Olympiad for schoolchildren in the basics of Orthodox culture.
For citation: Potanina L.T., Koinova-Zoellner J.V., Sklyarova T.V. Teachers’ Readiness to Develop Students’ Moral Concepts in Innovative Educational Contexts. Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2020; 24(4):608-621. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.101.024.202004.608-621
Contribution of the authors:
Leila T. Potanina – analysis of scientific ideas on the problem of moral formation of school-age students; preparation of the initial version of the text; design of the table with the research results; statistical processing of empirical data.
Julia V. Koinova-Zoellner – theoretical analysis of scientific literature on the problem of research of values and meanings of teachers abroad; preparation of an international scientific review on the research problem; critical analysis and structural and semantic revision of the text.
Tatyana V. Sklyarova – formulation and description of methodological and theoretical problems of value system development in students; qualitative analysis of the obtained results and their interpretation; data collection in a group of teachers; design of an electronic database and systematization of research data.
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Submitted 07.09.2020; revised 22.10.2020; published online 30.12.2020.
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