Indicators and Components Affecting the Moral Identity of Learners: Research Synthesis based on Roberts' Model

The moral identity of learners is one of the important goals in education systems. One of the important fields in the development of moral identity of learners is to know the factors affecting it. The purpose of the present research is to investigate the components and indicators of learners' moral identity according to the existing research background.               

The approach of the present research is qualitative and its method is synthesis research based on the model of Roberts et al. (2007). The research community consisted of 227 articles in the field of factors affecting the moral identity of learners during the years 2009 to 2022. The research sample includes 33 articles that were purposefully collected and data were selected based on thematic monitoring. The research data were collected from the qualitative analysis of the studied documents.

Based on the analysis of previous articles, the components of moral identity of learners were classified in 6 dimensions. These dimensions include the individual dimension (including factors; personality traits, moral intelligence, cognitive skills, and individual contexts), the dimension of the coach's characteristics (including factors; commitment, perceptive skills, ethics, interaction). suitable and specialized), the educational content dimension (including factors; collaborative, community-oriented and realistic), the dimension of teaching-learning approaches (including factors; team approaches, process-oriented and interactive approaches, active approaches, based on praxis and based on constructivism), evaluation characteristics (including axes such as community-oriented approaches, individual approaches, functional and justice-oriented assessment approaches) and contextual factors (including axes such as virtual communication platforms, family, social platform environment, school and friends).

The components and indicators affecting the moral identity of learners were organized in six dimensions, therefore, for the design of curriculum models for the moral education of learners, a comprehensive model can be provided by considering the dimensions of the context.