Dedy Gunawan, Yuli Utanto, Yoris Adi Maretta
This study regards ability to use considerations appropriately to overcome a dilemma is essential. It is a moral reasoning process that needs to be done when one meets a dilemma. The absence of a moral reasoning could be an indication that someone is suffering a moral failure. The purpose of this study is to investigate the using of considerations to resolve moral problems in education area. To achieve the purpose, this study employs a qualitative approach. It involves five participants from a senior secondary school in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. In the interviews the participants are firstly presented a story containing a dilemma. They are, afterward, given a time to reason the dilemma. A conversation about the decision they make-what their decision is, why and how the decision is made, is then conducted. The result shows twelve considerations are used. They are following the rules, being fair, respecting others' right, agreements, honesty, courage, loyalty, consequences, religious teachings, delegating, pluralism-religious-Pancasila doctrines, and the Javanese cultural teaching: ewuh pakewuh. The considerations used by the participants could be grouped into the PAVE ethics: principle, agreement, virtuous, and consequential (as difined by Henderson, 2005 and Jewell et. al., 2006) and non-PAVE moral viewpoints i.e., delegating, pluralistic, religious, Pancasila and Javanese ethics. © Serials Publications.
Lembaga Penjaminan Mutu Pendidikan Jawa Tengah, Indonesia; Jurusan Teknologi Pendidikan, Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
