Last November, Dr. Buxarrais participated in the 45th Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education, which took place in Seattle (USA) with the theme “Morality and Ethics in the Digital World”.

The title of her paper was Measuring Ethical Sensitivity of students at the University of Barcelona, coauthored with Dr. Josep M. Ustrell, from the School of Dentistry of the University of Barcelona. This is the abstract:

The study examines the Ethical Sensitivity of university students chosen from two Degrees: Education and Dentistry. We have used the Ethical Sensitive Scale Questionnaire (ESSQ) (Tirri & Nakelaine, 2011). The Scale was presented to a sample of 187 students of Education and 58 of Dentistry, in the first year and last year of the degree. Before, we have adapted the scale questionnaire in the context. A quantitative cross-sectional design was utilized. Data were collected twice, in the first and the fourth year.

Eric Ortega and Laura Fontan (see photo), interns from the Research Group of Moral Education (GREM), which is coordinated by Dr. Buxarrais, were also presenting the work they are doing for their PhD research.

In this conference, Dr. Buxarrais was officially appointed as Chair of the Good Work Award Committee of the Association for Moral Education, where she has been serving as an elected board member since 2015.