Service Experience and the Moral Development of College Students

The effects of off-campus service learning on the moral reasoning of college students

“…Like Mayhew and King (2008), we found no selection effect, in which students with higher moral reasoning scores were more likely to choose to engage in a service learning experience. However, participants in our study did show an accentuation effect, like those in the study reported by Mayhew and King (2008) and consistent with the findings of Boss (1994) and Gorman et al (1994), where enrolment in the service learning experience appeared to improve students' moral reasoning scores, regardless of their pre-test scores. We can also provide a broader perspective on the gain scores within the service learning group, comparing it to moral reasoning gain scores seen in the study reported by Mayhew and King (2008).…”

“…Boss's results showed significantly higher gains on moral reasoning for the service learning class. Similar results were found in a study by Gorman, Duffy, and Heffernan (1994). Boss hypothesised that the power of service learning flows from its integration of cognitive disequilibrium and social disequilibrium.…”

How curricular content and pedagogical strategies affect moral reasoning development in college students

“…These include educational programs or courses that provide opportunities for students to participate in role-taking (Reimer et al, 1983;Mason & Gibbs, 1993) and perspective-taking activities (DeWolfe & Jackson, 1984), discuss moral dilemmas (Keefer & Ashley, 2001), use service-learning pedagogies (Boss, 1994;Gorman et al, 1994;Hudec, 2002), take a more active role in their own learning (Boss, 1994;Gorman et al, 1994;Mustapha & Seybert, 1990) and complete assignments intended to trigger cognitive disequilibrium (Rest, 1986;Rholes et al, 1982). Other researchers have documented how peer interactions influence moral reasoning development, including constructive interactions that foster moral perspective-taking (Thoma & Ladewig, 1993;Endicott et al, 2003) and those that may perpetuate non-moral values and behaviour, such as stereotyping (Sanders, 1990;Kilgannon & Erwin, 1992).…”

Ergenlerde insani değerler ve ahlaki olgunluk arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi

“…Moreover in international and national literature there are many studies taken morality of adolescences (Addad & Leslau, 1990;Cebeci, 2003;Çiftçi, 2001;Gorman et al, 1994;Hart, Hart & Carlo, 2005;Kaya, 2007;Koyuncu, 1983;Özcan 2006Özcan , Turiel et al, 1978Walker, 1995) and human values of adolescences (Baloğlu & Balgalmıs, 2005;Dilmaç, 1999;Erdem, 2003;Germine, 2001;Lamberta, 2004;Sarı,2005;Schwartza & Boehnke, 2004, Schwartza, et al, 2001) within different variables (gender, age, education).…”