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Growing up morally: An experiential classroom unit on moral development
2015
One reason why many of today’s business leaders are frequently viewed as unethical, corrupt, and corruptible is that values transmitted (implicitly) by university business education courses influence students to ignore ethics. This paper argues that to help future business leaders become more ethical, business school implicit values should reflect a more ethical direction. The present paper describes an experiential pedagogy designed to help students develop morally. It does so by asking students to: 1) participate in exercises sensitizing them to ethical issues, 2) reflect on their own ethical values and decisions they’ve made in the past that either mirror or contradict those values, 3) r…
L’avvio della ricerca empirica in campo educativo in Italia: il contributo di Calonghi e Visalberghi
2014
Mentre la filosofia dominante in Italia alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale non era favorevole alla sperimentazione pedagogica, alcune iniziative, tese a innovare in senso attivistico i contenuti e i metodi dell’insegnamento scolastico, costituirono le cause remote dell’avvio dello studio dell’educazione con il metodo positivo. Esse facilitarono l’azione dei pionieri della ricerca empirica in campo educativo, che si sviluppò in Italia a partire dagli anni cinquanta del XX secolo per tre cause prossime: l’influsso delle sperimentazioni realizzate nelle scuole degli USA, la diffusione del pensiero di Dewey, l’impulso dato dall’Istituto Superiore di Pedagogia dei Salesiani allo studio dell…
Ubiquitous Learning in Appropriate Learning Environments
2018
This article concentrates on blended learning study module that was carried out in class teachers’ adult education. It offered the students versatile, unique, individual and communal possibilities to fully study in authentic contextual environments, exploiting virtual tools. The goal of the planning of this module was to create a learning environment that would give a student an optimal learning experience in versatile, authentic, e-learning environments. In the study, the ubiquitous learning model was tried out in a 6 credits’ study module for class teachers’ adult education that was based on the principles of transformational pedagogy (OED). The module was carried out in flexible and vers…