Moral Values Education in Terms of Graduate University Students' Perspectives: A Jordanian Sample

Amani Jarrar

doi:10.5539/ies.v6n2p136

Abstract

This study focuses on how moral values differ and vary according to variants such as education, culture, thoughts, religion, gender and family relations .It handles the issue of moral education in Jordan, from the perspective of graduate students in Petra University. Since we are facing new challenges in this era and region of the world, we are more affected by cultural and environmental effects that change our moral system. This ethical issue is highly important in a world where materialistic values are more pressing on our behavior. This study directly tackles Jordanian culture and mainly youth in universities, so that a specially tailored questionnaire was built to study the moral value educational system that Jordanian youth in private universities believe in, taking Petra University as a sample. This questionnaire covers all areas of morality and all issues dealing with ethical dilemmas, and their answers were analyzed according to certain dimensions that have to do with moral education, moral dilemmas, moral choice, moral crises, moral sensation, moral awareness, the awareness of right, and justice from the perspective of Jordanian graduate students. Many factors were being taken into consideration, especially the eastern, Muslim, Jordanian culture, the youth mentality affected by education, the Arab culture, information systems, and human rights issues. The study ends with a description of the moral value education system of graduates in Petra University as a special model of private universities.

Highlights

It seems we are facing a real problem in promoting morality in our higher education system, so if higher education must do something about moral values, it is not to promote standards disregarded everywhere outside the classroom, for example
This study focuses on how moral values differ and vary according to variants such as education, culture, thoughts, religion, gender and family relations .It handles the issue of moral education in Jordan, from the perspective of graduate students in Petra University
This study directly tackles Jordanian culture and mainly youth in universities, so that a specially tailored questionnaire was built to study the moral value educational system that Jordanian youth in private universities believe in, taking Petra University as a sample. This questionnaire covers all areas of morality and all issues dealing with ethical dilemmas, and their answers were analyzed according to certain dimensions that have to do with moral education, moral dilemmas, moral choice, moral crises, moral sensation, moral awareness, the awareness of right, and justice from the perspective of Jordanian graduate students

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Introduction

It seems we are facing a real problem in promoting morality in our higher education system, so if higher education must do something about moral values , it is not to promote standards disregarded everywhere outside the classroom , for example. That in Dewey's terms, to replace customary morality by reflective morality, which is in a university moral education, what is essential is the acquisition and cultivation of materials and skills of moral reflection. If morality imposes a duty to work for changes in society, the role of higher education is to contribute to change, not by direct action, but by the force of ideas, and the farthest it reaches the human spirit, is what makes higher education. I believe that moral education is more effectively caught than taught. That moral change is nowadays in a state of moral collapse

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