GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES INTEGRATED WITH CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES: EFFECTIVENESS ON THE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

IF 0.8 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Problems of Education in the 21st Century Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI:10.33225/pec/23.81.586

Yu-Long Chao

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With a conviction that general education should play a significant role in fostering the positive development of university students’ character, several educators integrated various activities that could contribute to such development into general education courses in a technical university in Taiwan. This study surveyed the takers and non-takers of those courses and compared the differences in the scores of eight aspects of character development between the two groups of students. Results revealed that the implemented courses brought up small gains, particularly for male students in the second year, in most of the aspects including “logic and innovation,” “social practices,” “citizenship,” “growth in learning,” and “proactiveness and autonomy.” Female students were found to score significantly higher than male counterparts in all of the aspects and the scores of most aspects exhibited a declining trend with the increasing university years. These results were discussed from the perspectives of the teaching strategies advantageous for character development as well as the mental difference between first-year and third- or fourth-year students. Keywords: general education, character development, quasi-experiment, teaching strategies

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通识教育课程与人格发展活动的整合:对大学生人格发展的有效性

几位教育工作者深信通识教育在促进大学生品格的积极发展方面应发挥重要作用，因此在台湾一所技术大学将各种有助于发展大学生品格的活动纳入通识教育课程。本研究调查了参加和不参加这些课程的学生，比较了两组学生在性格发展的八个方面的得分差异。结果显示，实施的课程在“逻辑和创新”、“社会实践”、“公民意识”、“学习成长”和“主动性和自主性”等大部分方面都取得了小的进步，尤其是大二的男生。女生在所有方面的得分均显著高于男生，且随着大学年限的增加，大部分方面的得分呈下降趋势。本研究从有利于性格发展的教学策略以及一年级学生与三、四年级学生的心理差异两方面对这些结果进行了讨论。关键词:通识教育，个性发展，准实验，教学策略

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期刊介绍： Problems of Education in the 21st Century is an international, periodical scientific journal publishing original research across the whole of education. The journal''s Editorial Board and staff are committed to building PEC into the leading scientific journal in its field by publishing articles of outstanding scientific quality that merit the attention and interest of the whole educational community.