Investigating the factors influence on the ethical growth in elementary students (Case study: Tehran public and not-profit primary schools)

Subject Areas : Educational management

parviz nami ¹ , hasan pashasharifi ² , malek mirhashemi ³

1 - Islamic Azad University ،Roudehen Branch ،Faculty of Psychology and Social Sciences
2 - استاد گروه روان شناسی، واحد رودهن، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، رودهن، ایران
3 - دانشیار گروه روان شناسی، واحد رودهن، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، رودهن، ایران

Received: 2021-08-31 Accepted : 2021-08-31 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: Elementary students, Ethical growth, ethical Education,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effective factors on ethical growth of elementary students.In order to achieve the purposes of this research,data related to the growth rate of students' ethical dimensions gathered through Lotfabadi standard ethical growth questionnaire and also teachers and school principals point of views about effective factors on ethical growth through semi-structured interviews and checking the school condition and interaction between students and teachers through field view. Statistical population includes second grade students of public and non-profit primary schools in the twenty-two districts of Tehran city in the academic year of 2017-18. 600 people were selected by stratified and multi-stage random sampling using Cochran's relationship in a limited community among the students.These findings were classified into eight general categories. It can be acknowledged that the six important factors affecting on ethical growth of primary and non-profit primary school students in Tehran, which have the highest rank are: environmental ethics, human ethics, divine ethics, family relationships ethics, social ethics and self-care ethics (or individual), and based on the priority of each factor, suggestions were made, including the design of the same educational method in content and method due to differences in school, family and media education, which solve the problem of contradictions created by students' learning and implementation of what they have learned.