Concurrent Session 2D
Location
Ford Ballroom D, The Inn at Ole Miss
Start Date
6-10-2022 1:15 PM
End Date
6-10-2022 2:25 PM
Description
- Cognitive Maps as a Metacognitive Assignment to Develop Ethical Virtues / Benjamin Johnson, Utah Valley University
- Facilitating Metacognition as a Foundation for Meaningful Teaching of Ethics / Anton Tolman, Utah Valley University
Many students come to Higher Education because they were expected to, or because they have been told it is necessary for future work or careers. Despite faculty efforts in General Education courses to encourage a broader vision of the value of education, students are often resistant to changing their attitudes and behaviors. Intentional use of metacognitive assignments that increase student awareness of how they approach learning, the methods they are using to learn, and the meaning or purpose of their education beyond “jumping through hoops” hold the potential to deepen development of ethical virtues related to responsibility to self and others, including society in general. A teaching approach focused on metacognition may also boost student development of their “personal narrative” as a scholar or educated person and how they contribute to society now and in the future. This session will describe innovative approaches and metacognitive assignments to nudge student development in these directions and that can be applied across the curriculum. We will present data from a recent study conducted in General Education courses and explore the implications of these assignments as methods for promoting ethical development. The first presenter will focus on facilitating students’ sense of their own responsibility for learning as a foundation for ethical thinking. The second presenter will focus on the use of concept maps as a way to challenge students to think of their ethical responsibility to those close to them and to society at large.
Session Chair: Prasenjit Biswas, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong
Relational Format
conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Benjamin; Tolman, Anton; and Biswas, Prasenjit, "Concurrent Session 2D" (2022). Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum Conference. 11.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/seac/2022/schedule/11
COinS
Oct 6th, 1:15 PM
Oct 6th, 2:25 PM
Concurrent Session 2D
Ford Ballroom D, The Inn at Ole Miss
- Cognitive Maps as a Metacognitive Assignment to Develop Ethical Virtues / Benjamin Johnson, Utah Valley University
- Facilitating Metacognition as a Foundation for Meaningful Teaching of Ethics / Anton Tolman, Utah Valley University
Many students come to Higher Education because they were expected to, or because they have been told it is necessary for future work or careers. Despite faculty efforts in General Education courses to encourage a broader vision of the value of education, students are often resistant to changing their attitudes and behaviors. Intentional use of metacognitive assignments that increase student awareness of how they approach learning, the methods they are using to learn, and the meaning or purpose of their education beyond “jumping through hoops” hold the potential to deepen development of ethical virtues related to responsibility to self and others, including society in general. A teaching approach focused on metacognition may also boost student development of their “personal narrative” as a scholar or educated person and how they contribute to society now and in the future. This session will describe innovative approaches and metacognitive assignments to nudge student development in these directions and that can be applied across the curriculum. We will present data from a recent study conducted in General Education courses and explore the implications of these assignments as methods for promoting ethical development. The first presenter will focus on facilitating students’ sense of their own responsibility for learning as a foundation for ethical thinking. The second presenter will focus on the use of concept maps as a way to challenge students to think of their ethical responsibility to those close to them and to society at large.
Session Chair: Prasenjit Biswas, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong
