Honesty in the learning garden
A growing challenge in post-secondary education is breach of academic integrity. Some students might decide from the get-go to ‘cheat’ by plagiarizing or copying from another student. However, it seems most often the case that a student is pinched for time (i.e., leaving work to the last minute). Under such circumstances, the temptation to ‘borrow’ ideas is more powerful, or sloppiness in note-taking results in inability to recall and appropriately attribute the origin of ideas.
How to better nurture honesty [academic integrity] in the learning garden? — before a breach (blight) and beyond punitive measures (reaping what you sow)? The kind of honesty as in the perennial version of the “honesty” plant “Lunaria rediviva“: transparent and resilient.
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