An insightful finding...thanks to Erin Amanda for all the hard work. In light of the fact that students seem so able to give the “right” or socially correct answer to these questions, we must also ask whether or not we are simply getting more normative answers from certain groups of students that do not necessarily reflect how they truly perceive integrity and how they would really act when confronted with tough ethical situations. In either case, the results tell us that students do have a broad understanding of the things that they should consider acceptable and unacceptable behavior, and even of the right thing to do in a situation that they are facing on paper only. The implication of this finding is that moral education that simply tells students what is considered “right” and “wrong” and what is defined as “corruption” is not going to be enough to change the actual behavior of those students when they are confronted with opportunities to gain an advantage by participating in corruption, or when they are forced to participate in corruption because they feel that they have no choice.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 01:34:12 +0000
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