I appreciate your insight, Smitty- you are an eloquent writer. Regarding the style of obtaining the "correct" answer to the moral dilemma, I would like to approach it from a different angle. I had mixed emotions as to HOW the question(s) were posed from the interviewer to the participants. I felt that the interviewer intentionally led the seven and twelve year old boys to complete their answers in a particular way. For example, instead of posing the question and allowing the participant to contemplate and answer the question himself, she "fed" him a response, "Since the man already broke in, should he turn himself in?" Of course, the child agreed, since she practically answered the question for him. The interviewer also offered her opinion when she posed the same question to the twelve year old boy. She asked, "What did you think he should do now that he already broke in and broke the law?" In my opinion, she intentionally brought up the issues of morality by stating that the man "broke the law". As we all know, morality is concerned with distributive justice. (Nucci, 2009).
I perceive that "spin" was used by the interviewer to get the appropriate answers for her interviews. Not only did she not allow the participants to fully answer her questions prior to her interjecting her own thoughts, but the group selected could have been more diversified. Did any of you notice there was only one male interviewed and no younger females?
Final Exit Ticket
Congratulations! You have completed your course on Affective Education. How quickly the time has passed. Each week there was something new to read, process, analyze and evaluate. Believe it or not, I was learning right along with you. How could I not? Considering that many of you provided such rich professional insight. I am a firm believer that it is always good to look at material, theories, and educational frameworks from different perspectives. For that, I thank you. Nonetheless, every course has its highlights; those moments whereby things simply stand-out and make a lot of sense, which leads to our final exit ticket. Please answer the following questions, what was the “ah ha moment for you”? And as a result, what new knowledge have you constructed through our eight week dialogue on Affective Education that strengthened your confidence about teaching moral education?
Albert Bandura
Bobo Doll Experiment
Video Link to the Bobo Doll Experiment
Review the video depicting Albert Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment, which looks at aggression, observational and imitative learning. Share your opinion on how or why this experiment fits (or does not fit) into a discussion about affective education. Be sure to support your opinion. This counts as exit tickets for weeks 5 & 6. I look forward to reading your posts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdh7MngntnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdh7MngntnI
The Stages of Moral Development
It has been noted that the Domain Theory was established in an attempt to "categorize behaviors into either a moral or social domain"(Freday, 2009), however prior classification systems, such as Kohlberg's theory of moral development, placed morality and social convention in the same developmental domain. Domain theory separates the two and goes on to highlight the differences in a child's development of each (Freday, 2009, para. 2). Do you agree or disagree? Post your views.
With that noted, click on the You Tube link provided. View the Kohlberg video that explores the stages of moral development and post your views and reations to the video in no less than a 100 words. You may use the book or any other reading from class to support your views. Just be inclined to cite your sources. I look forward to reading your post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4etXWYS84
With that noted, click on the You Tube link provided. View the Kohlberg video that explores the stages of moral development and post your views and reations to the video in no less than a 100 words. You may use the book or any other reading from class to support your views. Just be inclined to cite your sources. I look forward to reading your post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4etXWYS84
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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Julie, your are proving to be quite insightful. I have to agree with your observations, the interviewer does interject her thinking into the questions. Now, for my age group, it would not be such a big deal, however for an adolescent, it could easily be leading. Nice point!
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