University students’ perceptions of learning of moral education: A response to lifelong moral education in higher education

University students’ perceptions of learning of moral education: A response to lifelong moral education in higher education

• Wong, Mei Yee The Education University of Hong Kong

Teaching in Higher Education, 2020

Routledge

2020

• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QG Adult, Lifelong & Continuing Education

Higher Education Moral Education University Students Lifelong Learning Hong Kong

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

Moral education is not a new concept in universities; however, university students’ firsthand learning experience and valuation of moral education have not been fully explored. As part of a teaching and learning study conducted in two undergraduate classes in a Hong Kong university, this study explores the university students’ perceptions of learning moral education. Data were mainly collected through student interviews and their reflective journals. Most students supported the learning of moral education. They asserted that moral education has a lifelong nature; thus, they should learn it in universities. The study reveals that moral education can facilitate the university students’ personal and social betterments, showing the intrinsic and instrumental values of moral education. This small-scale case supplements the literature on the understanding of the development of moral education in higher education. This study also reflects the necessity to rethink the moral aim and the moral education curriculum of higher education. Copyright © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

• English

Journal Articles

• 13562517

• 10.1080/13562517.2020.1852201

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/884f1409

2021-05-20