An Assessment of the Ethical Climate on Campus

校園倫理氣氛之評估

高麗娟(Li-Chuan Kao) ； 張蘭馨(Lan-Shin Chang) ； 李佩芬(Pei-Fen Lee)

《北體學報》 10期 (2002/11) Pp. 241-252

https://doi.org/10.6167/TPEC/2002.10.23

摘要

提昇校園倫理向來是臺灣學校教育的傳統目標，相關論述及演講亦不勝枚舉。近年來全國倡行民主的衝擊導致校園自主的呼聲愈烈，因此，教育行政人員及教師擔憂尾隨而來的校園倫理式微的問題。一般而言，校園倫理的重要性早已在教育領導的領域中奠定崇高的地位，問題是教育從業人員對於該如何檢視校園倫理氣氛的方法卻很模糊。談提昇校園倫理應先了解該校的倫理氣氛，包括這個學校所奉行的倫理法則，該校計畫履行的價值與目標，以及達到這些目標所經歷的過程。本文的目的有二，一爲探討校園倫理氣氛的問題並介紹Banning (1997)所提評估校園倫理氣氛多面向方法；二爲於臺灣北部某校執行初步校園倫理氣氛檢測。前述所提多面向方法的主要概念以校園倫理氣氛評估模型〔Ethical Climate Assessment Matrix〕〔見圖一〕加以說明。這個模型有三個面向：人爲製品提供訊息；校園的倫理問題反映於這個訊息；以及評估者將價值判斷附諸於這個訊息。本文第二目的是採用「校園倫理氣氛評估模型」進行臺灣北部某校倫理氣氛之初評。相片是本文的人爲製品，這些相片所提供的訊息反映出校園的倫理法則、價值之履行及校園倫理氣氛改變的過程。這些訊息可留待未來在學校中做更廣泛的討論。校區成員或有不贊同本文對相片訊息的解釋，然而，這不是重點，本文所提議的是談論提昇倫理氣氛，主要是爲鼓勵校園中各式成員參與對話，提出不同的看法，討論該或不該採取的行動，以達到提昇校園倫理氣氛的目的。

關鍵字

倫理氣氛 ； 評估 ； 高等教育

並列摘要

Promoting campus ethics has been regarded as a classic educational goal on campus in Taiwan. A large number of articles and speeches related to education discuss the topic of ethics as well. The impact of pursuing island-wide democracy results in administrative autonomy in the educational institutions. Accordingly, educational administrators and faculty show high concerns of the following neglect of campus ethics. In general, the importance of campus ethics has positioned its supremacy in educational leadership; yet, the examination of ethical climate has been vague to educational practitioners. Promoting campus ethics involves understanding the ethical climate of a campus, that includes knowing what ethical principles an institution espouses, the values and goals it seeks to fulfill, and the processes by which the goals and values are achieved. The purposes of this article are two folds: first, to discuss the issues of campus ethical climate and introduce a multidimensional approach proposed by Banning (1997), used for assessing a campus' ethical climate, and second, take an initial implementation of this approach to a northern college in Taiwan. The concept of the proposed multidimensional approach is illustrated by way of the Ethical Climate Assessment Matrix (see Figure 1) with three main dimensions: the type of physical artifact sending the message, the ethical issues reflecting the message, and the evaluative effect or ethical saliency of the message. The matrix was used to examine the ethical climate on a northern urban college in Taiwan. Photographs, taken on the campus in October 2000, manifested as physical artifacts reflecting the ethical principles, fulfillment of values, and ethical change processes on campuses. The information carried by these photos allows for a future dialogue on campus. All college constituents do not have to agree on the interpretations drown in this article; however, promoting ethical climate movement toward an ethical community is based on the full participation of all campus members in the discussion of differences and actions that should be taken or not taken.

並列關鍵字

ethical climate ； assessment ； higher education

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