Abstract

COUTO, Leandra Lúcia Moraes; ALENCAR, Heloisa Moulin de  and  LIMA, Mayara Gama de. Conceptions and Judgments of Educators on Education in Moral Values. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.1, pp.186-208.  Epub May 17, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.66493.

This study falls within the fields of psychology of morality and education in moral values, especially regarding the constructivist perspectives. Our aim was to verify the conceptions and judgments of educators about education in moral values. In this qualitative study, we conducted individual semi-structured interviews with 14 professionals from a municipal public primary school. Regarding the participants' conceptions, we found content that draws near relativistic positions. In addition, most of them consider that family is the main responsible for moral formation. In school, there was no specific project of education in moral values, and most of the participants stated that they did not feel able to carry out practices that have this focus. Steaming from the results, we ponder that the professionals' conception of moral, ethics and education in moral values seems to influence the way they regard the role of school in the moral formation of students. Thus, these results indicate that it is necessary to propose to educators, through continuing education, reflections on such subjects, enabling changes in their conceptions. We start from the assumption that this training can contribute to motivate professionals to get involved in educational practices in moral values.

Keywords : moral education; psychology; ethics; values; educators..

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