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- Title
Institutional Guidance of Affective Bonding: Moral Values Development in Brazilian Military Education.
- Authors
Wortmeyer, Daniela; Branco, Angela
- Abstract
In this article, our aim is to analyze institutional practices guided to promote the development of moral values within the context of military education of Brazilian Army combatant commissioned officers. From a cultural psychological approach, we discuss how social guidance within military culture operates at different levels of the affective-semiotic regulation of individuals, structuring complex experiences that give rise to hypergeneralized meaning fields regarding morality and military values. For this goal, we first introduce some theoretical topics related to values development, emphasizing their affective roots and role in the emergence, maintenance, amplification and attenuation of all relations between the person and the environment. Following a brief discussion on how social institutions try to promote changes in personal values, we provide an overview of values present in the military culture and socialization. Finally, the text focuses on the education of Brazilian Army combatant commissioned officers, describing how practices related to different levels of affective-semiotic experience combine in order to promote the internalization and externalization of specific moral values. We conclude suggesting issues for future investigation.
- Subjects
MILITARY education; ETHICS; MILITARY culture; SEMIOTICS; INTERNALIZATION (Social psychology); EXTERNALIZING behavior
- Publication
Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science, 2016, Vol 50, Issue 3, p447
- ISSN
1932-4502
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12124-016-9346-6