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Adolescents' moral self-cultivation through emulation:Implications for modelling in moral education
No full textThis paper aims to offer a new perspective on role modelling by examining adolescents’ own efforts to lead a morally virtuous life. While traditional approaches to moral education emphasize the importance of teachers as role models, this study proposes a shift in focus towards adolescents’ own role models. Drawing on the philosophical concept of moral self-cultivation and psychological insights on identity development and social cognitive learning, it is argued that adolescents have the ability to cultivate their moral character by emulating others. However, empirical evidence suggests that adolescents often do not perceive teachers as their role models. Consequently, moral educational theories are advised to demand less of teachers as role models. Teachers could invest more time in understanding students’ personal role models and encourage them to compare these role models with their own behavior. By acknowledging and addressing students’ role models, teachers can facilitate the moral self-cultivation of adolescents
Connecting Better and Wider:A Constructivist Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis Exploration of Community Resilience in the Anthropocene Among the Transition Network
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Afvallers en afhakers:Over eenzaamheid, sociaal isolement en een weerbare samenleving.
Get PDFNederland kent een substantieel aantal mensen die vereenzaamd zijn of in een sociaal isolement leven. Mensen die letterlijk en figuurlijk buiten de samenleving staan. Omdat ze het gevoel hebben niet te passen in de samenleving en niet mee willen doen aan de ‘ratrace’, of de sociale druk in de samenleving te zwaar vinden, en zich verloren of verlaten voelen. Ze zijn afgehaakt omdat ze niet mee willen doen, of afgevallen omdat ze niet mee kunnen doen aan het sociale en maatschappelijke leven. In het overheidsbeleid worden eenzaamheid en sociaal isolement vooral geframed in individuele termen, terwijl er nauwelijks aandacht is voor de sociale omgeving. Anja Machielse laat zien welke factoren op het samenlevingsniveau van belang zijn voor een goed begrip van eenzaamheid en sociaal isolement. Zij betoogt dat het concept ‘weerbaarheid’ een verbinding kan leggen tussen het individuele leven en het leven in de samenleving. <br/
Addressing violence in spiritual care
No full textThis paper focuses on practices of spiritual care in penitentiaries and the military. In these contexts, the role of violence in human relationships - which may remain more at the background in, for instance, the context of healthcare, where spiritual care is usually seen as an integral dimension of care – prominently comes to the fore. Prison chaplains and military chaplains often need to address moral issues, related to violence that their clients have inflicted, undergone, or both. Central in the paper is the question: how do chaplains in the military and penitentiaries open up new possibilities when responding to stories about moral damage, and what is the spiritual aspect of this response? There is no straightforward answer to this question. The context of the military, for instance, shows that moral damage may be deeply ambiguous: acting as a ‘good’ soldier may involve acting in ways that are morally unsettling. And in the context of criminal justice, it becomes painfully clear that ‘recovery’ of moral damage, in the sense of restoration of relationships, may be impossible. Damage that was inflicted on others may be irreversible, relationships may be disrupted forever.I explore the above question by developing a notion of ‘moral recovery’ that highlights the spiritual dimension of morality, and that elucidates the task of chaplains when responding to moral damage that clients have experienced or inflicted. Here, I look at (recovery from) moral damage from a feminist philosophical perspective, perceiving moral processes as consisting of embodied relational practices that are entangled in sociocultural contexts. Furthermore, I use Arendt’s image of ‘the web of relationships’ in order to elaborate on the spiritual dimension of moral processes. Finally, in my explorations, I include empirical material from my research on spiritual care in the military, and reflections on my personal experience of working as a chaplain in Dutch penitentiaries. <br/
