The purpose of this study is to develop a education program for the students' improvement in moral judgement, by applying 'Value Conflicts' lesson dealing with the state of actual problems in the class.
First, the pretest was carried out to examine t...
The purpose of this study is to develop a education program for the students' improvement in moral judgement, by applying 'Value Conflicts' lesson dealing with the state of actual problems in the class.
First, the pretest was carried out to examine the student's moral judgement. And the effect of this program was proved based on the result obtained through the observation and the analysis of the moral judgement changes with the model of moral value conflicts related to a real life.
The moral judgement could be defined as the ability of thinking and judging what is right or wrong, what a person should do or not and understanding the reason for that.
It is difficult to induce children's interest because some cases of the value conflicts presented in the traditional class is different from real life. To make up for this point, by converting into the examples reflecting the problems which children undergo actually in their school life, this program was designed and developed so that they could sympathize with their lesson and understand easily.
The general procedure in this education program is as follows :
Preparing ▷ Presenting the situation of value conflicts and identifying a problem ▷ Thinking one's position and choosing ▷ Discussion ▷ Role play ▷ Evaluation and conclusion.
In the study, 20 students aged twelve, who show their problem behaviors in an elementary school S located in Mapo-gu in Seoul, were examined by the pretest to know their moral judgement. And the value conflicts model lesson program associated with real life applied to them, then the obtained data was collected and the post-test was conducted with the instrument used for the moral judgement examination. Statistics of the collected data were gained by SPSS/WIN program and T-test was operated to analyze the difference of the results from pretest and those from post-test.
Based on the result gained through the procedures of this program, it could affect positively in improving children's moral judgement. Meanwhile, there are some limited things in conducting the value conflicts model lesson program.
First, it has a limitation in generalizing the result of the examination for only 20 students aged twelve who have problem behaviors.
Second, the example of value conflicts presented for this education program in this study was taken based on demands survey of teachers and students showing their problem doings. Therefore, the example contents are limited.
Third, as the value conflicts model lesson program has been operated for relatively short term of 4 weeks in this study, there could be somewhat insufficient parts. It is necessary to extend the conducting time of the program effectively to get more information about the aspect of moral judgement changes.