한국윤리교육학회

This study aims at presenting project approach for the cultivation of moral creativity. Moral creativity includes the two dimensions in which creativity must be displayed morally and in which creativity must be displayed within ethical domains. These two dimensions have the common domain of morality. When creativity is displayed in domains such as those of science and art in moral education, a moral perspective and attitude which takes harm to mankind and welfare into consideration must be fostered and education must be administered that allows the learner to have new perspectives and introspection on existing practices and intuition in moral situations. Also, morality classes should provide a course in which students can display moral creativity based on the premise that moral creativity is a developmental characteristic that is latent in all students. Project approach provide self-directed learning, classes that connect and integrate the knowledge and lives of students, social skills and emotional learning through processes of cooperation and communication, and opportunities for thought and elaboration for the display of creativity, contributing to the cultivation of moral creativity. This study presented project approach which include creativity steps such as grasping the core of projects in moral situations, subdividing topics, and executing, elaborating, and reflecting on the projects. Also, it presented cases which applied ‘the morals of people integration’, which is an element from the morality course , revised in 2009 and 2015, by applying project steps and creativity methods.