Abstract

COUTO, Leandra Lúcia Moraes; ALENCAR, Heloisa Moulin de  and  MORAES, Tatiana Machado. Justice teaching: motivation of elementary school teachers. Temas psicol. [online]. 2015, vol.23, n.2, pp. 383-397. ISSN 1413-389X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.9788/TP2015.2-11.

In the present study, we sought to investigate whether teachers of the 1st and 5th year of elementary school consider they teach justice in their educational practices and, if so, what is the motivation to teach this moral value. Besides, the differences among the data from the teachers of the 1st and 5th year were probed. For this, semi-structured, individual interviews with the reference of the Piagetian clinical method were done. It was verified that all participants consider that they teach justice. Most teachers teach the said moral value because this is a responsibility of the school or due to lack of this role by the family. Likewise motivations related to the crisis of values in this present time, the importance of justice for society, the possibility of expanding itself, among others were found. Regarding the differences between the school years studied, it was established that the teachers who work with the 1st year tend to justify the teaching about justice predominantly due to the fact that this is a practice of the school's responsibility. In turn, the teachers who teach the 5th year seem to teach justice because this practice can promote coexistence in society, human relationships. From the results, the need for continuous education on the teaching of justice, designed and programmed to develop autonomous individuals is emphasized.

Keywords : Psychology of morality; education in moral values; justice; teaching practice.

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