DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7509-922-8-0090

INTEGRITA MORÁLNEHO A KRITICKÉHO MYSLENIA V PREGRADUÁLNEJ PRÍPRAVE V ODBORE UČITEĽSTVO

Martina Kosturková

Intellectual virtues are very important skills of a future teacher. They play an important role in cultivating a character and stimulating the critical thinking of the educator. They are reflected mainly in the constitutive function of the virtue of reason - phronesis as a practical wisdom that helps one to identify two incompatible goals, namely egocentricity and consideration. It is just intellectual rationality (trust in reason) that is required for us to develop a network of interconnected virtues – both intellectual and moral, in which critical and moral thinking is integrated. The aim of the study is to present the integrity between moral reasoning and critical thinking in teacher students – through intellectual virtues. We used the methodology of Paul (1992) to measure intellectual virtues. The tool consists of 35 strategies that quantifying the extent to which the respondent identifies with them. The first nine strategies form the affective area (intellectual virtues). The students’ task was to evaluate the level of development of individual strategies on a scale ranging from 1 (positive assessment) to 7 (negative evaluation). The available selection consisted of N = 241 students in their 2rd and 3rd year on bachelor’s teaching programmes at Prešov University in Prešov –Slovak Republic. The data were collected in the academic year 2020/2021 at the University of Prešov. The conclusions of the research lead to a necessary change in academic training concerning the development of intellectual virtues. Although the university is at the crossroads of the influence of family education and the education of primary and secondary schools, university students come into contact with some components (e.g. strategies for the development of intellectual virtues) for the first time, which is very late. Our effort is to support the supporting components of critical and moral thinking to such an extent that they become a part of the autonomous profile of the beginning teacher.

Keywords: reasonableness, intellectual virtues, critical and moral thinking, common standards of thinking, a model of the integrity of moral and critical thinking

pages: 90-97, online: 2023