ISSN 2329-9843
International Journal of Education Research and Reviews ISSN 2329-9843 Vol. 6 (7), pp. 001-008, July, 2018. © International Scholars Journals
Full Length Research Paper
Explanation and critique of the principles of postmodern moral education
Seyed Mahdi Sajjadi
Department of Education, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. E-mail: sajadism@modares.ac.ir, sajjadi@deakin.edu.au
Accepted 11 April, 2018
Abstract
Moral education is an important and complicated issue facing the educational institutions, specifically in religious societies in the modern world .The existing flaws and shortcomings in moral education arise in the first place, from the lack of a precise definition for the concepts, processes, content, aims, principles and foundations of moral education and in the second place, is affected by changes and transformations that might induce in the elements enumerated above. In the modern world, be it in religious or irreligious societies, post-modern teachings, principles and foundations are in the process of development and spreading, bringing about contradictions with the specific religious teachings of a society. As a result, ambiguity in principles of moral education is one of the problems of moral education. This paper provides an explanation and critique of the principles of moral education from the post-modern point of view.
Key words: Moral education, moral principles, post-modernism, meta-narratives, critique.