Q36 Pupils here are willing to share with others, even if they are not friends.
Q37 Pupils here resolve conflict without fighting or threats.
Q56 The content of internet websites and online gaming can be dangerous to
my own personal moral standards.
Q32 Teachers ask me my opinion.
Q33 Teachers listen carefully to my explanation of why I disagree with them.
Q34 Teachers explain the reasons for a rule or punishment.
Q35 Teachers teach me how to make decisions about moral issues or problems
in life.
Q19b I am taught how to have good character at school.
Q19c I am taught how to have good character in the community.
For the most part these questions are related to the moral ethos of the school. One group
of questions focuses on teachers another on students. Whether students thought they were
taught to have good character at school was less closely related to their estimate of the
moral ethos of the school, but very closely related to whether they thought they were
taught to have good character in the community. Concern about the dangers of the
internet is not conceptually connected with the other questions in the cluster; so it is
interesting to see that a high estimation of the moral ethos of school is in fact associated
with this concern.
There is little difference between judgments given on students and those on teachers; but
this evidence is insufficient by itself to support a view that teachers who take students
seriously lead to students with pro-social behaviours.
Pakistani (not Pathan), White, Caribbean and those mixed ethnic background, those
whose parents went straight to work and only children gave generally less positive
responses.
Cluster 6
Cluster 6 (see Appendix 8j) contains only three questions, which might be expected to be
more closely associated with some of the questions in Cluster 9 below. However, the
responses clearly place Cluster 6 in a group with Clusters 5, 7 and 8. One thing these
questions do have in common is that responses to them are particularly difficult to
interpret.
Claiming to understand the British way of life was closely associated with regarding
Britain as a moral country. Seeing society as favouring individualism is more closely
associated with these two than with any other questions.
Q42 Society encourages us to be individuals rather than citizens.
Q45 I understand the British way of life.
Q49 Britain is a moral country.
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