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Moral Motivation and the Role of the Internship in Professional Preparation

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A number of theories of moral functioning have been proposed (Blasi, 1995; Colby & Damon, 1992; Hoffman, 1970; Kohlberg, 1969; Rest, Narvaez, Bebeau, & Thoma, 1999), each with its own assumptions about what motivates moral action (Hardy & Carlo, 2005), and although each model points to different sources of moral motivation, they all are “increasingly convinced that identity may play an important role in moral functioning, but links between identity and morality remain unclear, both conceptually and empirically” (p. 233).

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Oja, S.N., Craig, P.J. (2013). Moral Motivation and the Role of the Internship in Professional Preparation. In: Handbook of Moral Motivation. Moral Development and Citizenship Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-275-4_32

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