The moral dilemmas: a didactic strategy for the formation of the moral subject in the university context

Abstract

The use of moral dilemmas in the university context, as a didactic strategy for the formation of the moral subject, has to be thought rigorously, since it was demonstrated in Suárez & Meza’s research, called “Efecto de una estrategia pedagógica en el desarrollo de la conciencia moral, en un grupo de estudiantes universitarios”, it has a positive effect in the development of a post-conventional moral. However, the use of the moral dilemmas demands clarity about its nature, purpose and methodology, in order to implicate to the subject as rational, emotive and volitive being, going beyond than a simple practice of the moral judgment. Besides, due to the design of the semi-experimental research and to the identification of the own variables, it is demonstrated the contribution of the humanistic formation to the moral and axiological formation of the students.