Comparative study of the military academy moral education model

Abstract

The objective of the present study is to compare the effect of three moral education models: the bag-of-virtues, value-clarification, and virtue-ethics models. Students from military colleges in Taiwan were used as research samples, and a questionnaire survey with counterbalanced designs was conducted. The research results indicate that the value-clarification model exhibited lower educational effectiveness than the other two models did, but the virtue-ethics model increased student moral behavior, and the bag-of-virtues model facilitated the construction of student moral values. Additionally, the students rated the bag-of-virtues model as the most educationally effective among the three models. Moral education models and virtue Moral education can be divided into three educational models: the bag-of-virtues, value-clarification, and virtue-ethics models (Lee 2006). The educational beliefs underlying the bag-of-virtues model are primarily derived from Socrates's perspective that Bknowledge is virtue.^ Socrates argued that the innate conscience and goodness of people lead them to act morally. Therefore, the principal function of morals is to help people differentiate between virtue and vice. The bag-of-virtues teaching model mainly involves a one-way teaching method in which authorities determine moral content, and teachers explain the content and introduce moral theories to students. Students thus learn passively under this approach; they seldom engage in interactive teaching and