This paper reviews the results of a series of lesson study on how to cope with "school bullying". We focus on school counselingclasses that addressed the theme of the anti-bullying guidance and analyze what the university students have learnt. Afterproviding information concerning the extent to which people tend to be vulnerable to the conformity, the first author gaveclasses with a focus on the guidance to be given to bystanders who witness bullying with reference to a case study whichthe pupils discussed on paper anonymously. We group 633 comment cards that 142 students wrote by using KJ Method asreference and examine their relations. The primary results are as follows: Firstly, what students learned can be groupedinto 14 knowledge subsets. That is, "effects of discussion on paper", "efforts of teachers and trust in teachers", "newly-gainedknowledge and impressions", "negative dynamics in a group", "positive dynamics in a group", "students' own experiences","doubts about discussion on paper", "learner's attitude about bullying", "effects of anonymity", "learner's attitude about thechild", "guidance to the bystander", "effects of writing", "factors which made the classroom change" and "sense of guilt". Thisshows that the bystanders' actions or inaction significantly impacted by conformity and the case positively reflect the abovementionedsubsets. Secondly, the relations among knowledge subsets follow the models previous studies have shown. Thispaper, by contrast, is distinguished by "learner's attitude about the child" as a premise such that children often initiate bullyingand they are capable of settling conflicts by themselves.
This paper is a further research in order to make an educational program for organizational ethics, which is based on the theory of autopoietic communication system. The moral consciousness develops through being in others' shoes or taking others' point of view. There is a strong tie between morality and communication. Our educational program is to develop one's moral consciousness through answering questions which facilitate one's being in other persons' shoes. We conducted an educational program, containing lecture, video-movie watching as a case-study, answering questionnaire about the movie, and discussion in a group as well as in a class. The aim of this paper is to analyze the changes of ethical consciousness of the students who have participated in our program. The result of the qualitative analysis on the essay-type answers provided by the students showed that our program has a good effect to change one's view point and facilitate to see one's own conducts and opinions from other's point of view.
This paper is to develop an educational program for organizational ethics, which is based on social or collective psychology. The moral consciousness develops through being in others' shoes or taking others' point of view. There is a strong tie between morality and communication. Having many channels to communicate with different stakeholders makes an organization more ethical. Our educational program is to develop one's moral consciousness through answering questions which facilitate one's being in other persons' shoes. We conducted an educational program, containing lecture, video-movie watching as a case-study, answering questionnaire about the movie, and discussion in a group of 4-7 persons as well as in a class. The effect of the program is estimated by the measure of ethical progress developed by our research group. The result showed that our program has a good effect in lowering egoistic attitude which neglects the interests of stakeholders who are outside the one's group. This effect is also ascertained by the answers of the program participants.
The illegal or unethical behaviors that business ethics treats are often produced by group dynamics rather than by private motives. This paper aims to introduce points of view of social or collective psychology into business ethics in order to analyze the unethical collective behaviors, and propose the means of keeping an organization ethical. We will focus especially on the structure and the process of communication inside and outside the organization. In the first section, we will discuss the relationship between communication and ethics from a general and philosophical point of view. In the second, we will suggest that the Autopoiesis theory fits to describe how ethical or unethical state of an organization emerges. In the third, we will try to make clear the process that produces the ethical consciousness that is necessary to prevent organizational injustice from a psychological approach. In the final section, we will present an ethical scale that we are developing in order to measure the ethical level of an individual or an organization.
Effects of positive and negative feedback on students' self-evaluation were investigated. Junior high school students were administered self-esteem scale, the Guess-Who-Test (class members nominations) and rating scales on self-confidence and self-evaluation relating to group behavior items. Then, class teachers gave each student positive feedback based on the peer ratings. The main results were as follows : (1) Though on the whole positive feedback had raising effects on self-confidence and self-evaluation, it was found larger for low self-esteem students than for high self-esteem students ; (2) Additional negative feedback only to high self-esteem students did not lower their self-confidence and self-evaluation but roused their willingness to improve their behavior when they were convinced of the truth of negative feedback. Based on the above results, effects of positive and negative feedback on students' self-evaluation were discussed.