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

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

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

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Bobo Doll---John

Remembering the bob doll experiments from college, it was interesting to view them again as they relate to moral development as opposed to conditioning or the psychology of learning. On one hand I agree with Julie that the children in the experiment were simply modeling their behavior on the adults they witnessed abusing the bobo dolls. Their actions could be viewed as aggressive but they were no different than the example they were presented with. Also, they fact that they used the same abusive language is an interesting point, but I wonder if there was a control group of adults and kids where the adults used kind and loving language or another group where they spoke nonsense while hitting the dolls. Could it be possible that the adults used abusive language because the experimenters were hoping this would also be modeled? I also found it curious that the experimenters used a toy that needs to be hit and bounced around to be played with as that is its whole purpose. Kids cannot play baseball or a game of checkers with a bobo doll; it’s very calling and design is geared for it to be treated like a punching bag. This begs the question whether or not this experiment really proves that aggressive behavior is modeled. I would agree with others in the class on one very important point, however, and that is what this experiment means for us and the example we provide the students under our care or supervision. I agree with Smitty when he says that as counselors we can only be around part of the time and what students learn at home or elsewhere may be out of our control. This means of course, that we should also make the most of the time we do have by providing the best support we can and also the best example possible.
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4 comments:

  1. Amparo OrtizDecember 7, 2009 at 7:39 PM

    I like how you questioned the control group. It seems as if their control group was just kids who didnt see anything at all.

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  2. danielleDecember 10, 2009 at 7:31 PM

    John-I too liked how you questioned the control group. I wonder what might have happened if the children were exposed to adults treating the doll kindly. Though I understand that the experiment was on aggression, so the experimenters were looking for a certain outcomes, which they got. Though as I was watching the video, I asked myself, "Is the doll not supposed to be punched?" I think I might have punched the doll too even if I hadn't seen the video and I was not exposed to violence as a child. What made the experiment disturbing is that the children chose to take that violence to another level.

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  3. nnekaauDecember 11, 2009 at 10:30 PM

    I also liked how you questioned the control group of the experiment. I was taught, the research should test the opposite of his beliefs. In other words, if the experiment is to prove that violence are learned then the proposal should had been violence isn't a learned behavior. As I posted in my comment to the Bobo doll, I think that the children should had played with the doll first without the adult's demonstration.

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  4. MariselaDecember 14, 2009 at 8:37 PM

    As I posted on my personal comment, I have to agree with you as far as finding it interesting that the experiment uses a toy that needs to be hit and bounced around and have it be treated like a punching bag. After viewing the video my first thought was “Why are they using a toy that springs back upright when it is hit? Maybe the children are seeing it as a game?”

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