International Journal for Educational Integrity volume 19 , Article number: 18 Cite this article. Metrics details. There is no consensus on definitions of educational or academic integrity, and their philosophical relationship with the notion of responsibility is complex.
Here, we aim to i disentangle these three notions. We lean on a philosophical framework of ethics and our method involves different kinds of reasoning and the modeling of complex thinking. We combine this frame with a three-level epistemic dimension to allow us ii to model the psycho-epistemic level 1 , epistemological level 2 , and phenomenological ground 0 ways in which subjects interact with their own norms and knowledge and with those of the surrounding institutions.
Finally, iii we also aim to propose concrete educational means by which to implement educational integrity. Based on this, we argue that education for responsibility founds a new, expanded definition of educational integrity. Moreover, ii empirical evidence suggests that this model can be operationalized by psychological indicators such as critical and complex thinking, cognitive flexibility, contextual relativism, and decentering, all of which are skills that can be fostered in spite of simplifying thinking, dogmatism, naive epistemology and dualism and cognitive fusion, respectively.
It points to iii the benefits of an educational approach in which subjects are encouraged to practice different types of meditation and to feel free to break institutional rules.
Therefore, promoting educational integrity may require methods that lie beyond the obvious choices. After discussing the scope and limitations of our results, we propose a new research agenda for educational integrity, which could ground a field of research broader than just academic integrity, but complementary to it. EI has been distinguished from academic integrity AI as concerning all levels of education including schools and universities , whereas AI only focuses on higher education institutions Joyce However, most of the literature uses the term AI, that some authors have used as interchangeable with EI Eaton and Edino Although it is presented as complex Bretag et al.
