Investigation of the moral education approach in formal and general education : the case of elementary schools

Document Type : Research Paper

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academic staff, research institute for education studies

Abstract

 
 
This research is an attempt to recognize the way formal general educational approach faces moral training. The methodology in this study is qualitative using inductive content analysis, legal texts, and 14 expert interviews. The interviewees were smartly selected and stratified form among official masters. The analysis of the findings revealed that the approach of  moral education  is what of  religious virtues and in curriculum parameter is integration or meta-curriculum which shows confusion; that is, the current situation of moral education is  "confused meta-curriculum moral education". It is suggested that a meta-curriculum moral education be compiled and legislated for the sensitive period of elementary school.
 
 
 

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