Social Responsibility for Students
Social responsibility is “an ethical theory, in which individuals are accountable for fulfilling their civic duty; the actions of an induvial must benefit the whole society” (Van, 2020). I previously shared about educators needing to have the disposition of social responsibility ( Social Responsibility as an Educator (technologies4teaching.blogspot.com) . In the same vein, it is important to impart social responsibility to students. Carbonero et al. (2017) indicate that is the shared duty of parents and schools to teach students to value social responsibility, and in their study, an open parenting style and teacher modeling were found to be most effective at improving responsibility skills. Being socially responsible is different from the personal responsibility commonly taught in schools. It does not just pertain to following the rules, completing assignments, and taking care of oneself. Social responsibility involves considering the well-being and needs of others. In a world...
