PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Character Education, Psy, Civic Engagement

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 101D
• Professor: Jodi Anne Quas

Document Summary

Character education: a direct education approach that involves teaching students a basic moral literacy to prevent them from engaging in immoral behavior and doing harm to themselves or others. Behaviors such as lying, stealing, and cheating are wrong, and students should be taught this throughout their education. Must be talked about and discussed, not just laid out in a set of rules. Values clarification: based on the belief that students should learn to value such things as democracy and justice as their moral reasoning develops. Cognitive moral education: based on the belief that students should learn to value such things as democracy and justice as their moral reasoning develops. Ex: hs students meet in a semester-long course to discuss a number of moral issues. Instructor acts as a facilitator rather tan as a director of the class. Goal is for students to develop more advanced notions of concepts such as cooperation, trust, responsibility, and community.