MORAL JUDGMENTS AND GENDER OF THE STUDENTS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING CIVICS EDUCATION (original) (raw)

2016, ETAR 2016 Conference Proceeding Book of Abstracts3rd International Conference on Emerging Trends In Academic Research

In moral education of Civics perspective, teaching and learning "moral dilemma" will be a means that facilitates the students to provide moral argument and at the same time shows the position of their moral development toward the case "moral dilemma" posed to them, so that they gradually develop themselves to be the citizens who are intelligent, responsible and civilized. The students of high school, as a whole, obtain the average 'judgment score” = 14.7, indicating the level of cognitive moral development at stage II (conventional), which is oriented to the law and order, i.e, 70% of the male students with the average of the “judgment score” = 13.6, and 100% of women with "judgment score” = 15.8. There is a strong and significant correlation between the level of cognitive moral development with the gender of students in high school. Gender differences in Kohlberg’s measurements show the ambiguous results, namely: showing the very different patterns from sex and also implying controversy. However, in relation, it is affirmed that women indeed have evolved differently from men, including in terms of moral thinking