Stimulating Civic Virtue in Students - An Exploratory Study of Teachers in Dutch Catholic Primary Education

von: Frank Th. M. Willems

Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2013

ISBN: 9783830978985 , 151 Seiten

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Stimulating Civic Virtue in Students - An Exploratory Study of Teachers in Dutch Catholic Primary Education


 

Buchtitel

1

Table of contents

5

1. Introduction

8

1.1 Issue

8

1.2 Goals of the study

9

1.3 Theoretical framework

10

1.4 Research questions

15

1.5 Methodology

15

1.6 Structure of this book

16

2. Citizenship education in religious schools: an analysis of tolerance

18

2.1 Introduction

18

2.2 A virtue-ethical approach to citizenship education

20

2.3 The virtue of tolerance

23

2.4 A Catholic perspective on the virtue of tolerance

25

2.5 Educational implications

28

2.6 Conclusion

30

3. Students’ perceptions and teachers’ self-ratings of modelling civic virtues

32

3.1 Introduction

32

3.2 Theoretical background

32

3.3 Method

36

3.4 Results

41

3.5 Discussion

42

3.6 Suggestions for educational practice

45

4. Assessing qualities of moral classroom conversations in the domain of citizenship education

47

4.1 Introduction

47

4.2 A normative framework for moral classroom conversations

47

4.3 Moral classroom conversation in practice

51

4.4 Assessing qualities of the four lessons

57

4.5 Conclusion

59

4.6 Implications for teacher practice

60

5. ‘Silent citizenship educators’: exploring teachers’ moral beliefs about citizenship in relation to their conduct of citizenship education

61

5.1 Introduction

61

5.2 Method

65

5.3 Results

69

5.4 Discussion

73

6. Designing and implementing a teacher training programme for citizenship education

78

6.1 Introduction

78

6.2 Designing a teacher training programme for citizenship education from a virtue-ethical angle

79

6.3 Research questions

86

6.4 Method

87

6.5 Results

94

6.6 Discussion

99

7. Conclusions and discussion

103

7.1 Conclusions of the present study

104

7.2 Beyond the state of the art

107

7.3 Suggestions for teacher training and teacher education

113

7.4 Final comment

116

8. Samenvatting [Dutch Summary]

118

Burgerschapsdeugden stimuleren bij leerlingen: Een exploratief onderzoek in het Nederlands katholiek basisonderwijs

118

9. References

126

10. Dankwoord [Acknowledgements]

135

11. About the author

138

12. Appendix 1: Teacher questionnaires

139

12.1 Questionnaire 1

139

12.2 Questionnaire 2

140

12.3 Questionnaire 3

141

13. Appendix 2: Student questionnaire

143

14. Appendix 3: Coding instrument moral classroom conversations: aspects and types of utterances, coded utterances a, b, c, examples, means, and standard deviations (N=21 teachers, see Chapter 5 d)

145

15. Appendix 4: Tables 19 to 22 from chapter 6

147