Author(s)

Guodong Zhao ¹, Minghui Sui ¹, Bingou Xu ¹, Wenqing Wu ², Zeya Bai ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Education Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China
² School of Philosophy and Social Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China

Corresponding Author

Guodong Zhao

ABSTRACT

It is of great significance to explore virtue as the internal driving force of subject moral practice. This study investigates the situation of Undergraduates in the four dimensions through the questionnaire method, including scientific virtue content, scientific virtue judgment, scientific virtue motivation and scientific virtue decision-making. The results show that the overall level of Undergraduates' understanding of scientific virtue is above medium, there are significant differences between grades and disciplines in the four dimensions.

KEYWORDS

Scientific morality, Scientific virtue, Understanding of scientific virtue

CITE THIS PAPER

Guodong Zhao, Minghui Sui, Bingou Xu, Wenqing Wu, Zeya Bai, A Comparative Study of Undergraduates' Understanding of Scientific Virtue. Transactions on Comparative Education (2024) Vol. 6: 154-160. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2024.060223.

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