Cheating: reflections on a moral dilemma
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Moral Education
- Vol. 20 (3) , 283-291
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0305724910200305
Abstract
This essay tells my story of using the moral orientations of justice and care to help me think about an incident of cheating in a seminar I taught. My story takes as a starting point the idea that teaching is a relational activity and that morality fundamentally concerns relations among people. These moral orientations gave me options to think about exploring, with my students, what it means to make moral choices in our everyday life. This narrative is about my own moral choice‐making in this dilemma and it reveals how using these psychological constructs helped me in my reflective practice of teaching. It also reveals the conflicts I faced in attempting to solve this dilemma and the questions and conflicts which still remain.Keywords
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