Over the years there have been different terms for the idea of educating for character. Some of these are moral education, moral reasoning, values clarification, and ethics. But the basic idea of using schools to produce people of good character has been around for many generations. This volume explores the importance of including character…

Proposes that environmental education must focus on the economic, political, social, and philosophical structures that direct human behavior and emphasize development of ecologically sound attitudes, values, and modes of operation. Reviews resource materials, projects, and programs that serve to challenge as well as inform youth. (ML)

Values and value awareness are central dimensions of the philosophy program at LaGuardia Community College. The broad and fundamental values of the program include the development of self-awareness, the recognition and overcoming of confusion and alienation, and the emergence of clarity and integration. Philosophy (seen as the process of critical…

Describes a simulation game strategy that is used in an interdisciplinary course that focuses on the relationships between values and technology. Outlines the game's objectives, content focus, and procedural elements. Discusses the merits of this type of approach in assisting in the development of a personal philosophy toward technology. (ML)

A description of a college course entitled "The Loving Relationship," this report first explains course structure and requirements, textbooks used, and instructional goals. After offering assumptions underlying the course's development, including the ideas that loving is an act of will, that communication is essential to love, and that personal…

A eighth-grade environmental hazards unit is described. Includes unit objectives, typical activities, and a taxonomy of environmental hazards. Indicates that the unit helps develop skills in thinking critically and helps in clarifying environmental values by examining three major traditions of American environmentalism: biocentric, ecological, and…

This curriculum guide combines language arts skills development with health concepts for kindergarten through third grade students. Instructional emphasis is placed on preparing students to maintain or improve their health. Specific objectives dealing with values awareness, inquiry, problem solving, communication, and decision making related to…

Compares the place of physical education and art education in the school curriculum. Claims that physical education deadens feelings and that a healthy democracy needs compassion, imagination, and interconnectedness. Concludes that to reassert education for democracy there needs to be a replacement of the dominant ethos of the football machines…

This book outlines the evolution of the Values Program at Le Moyne College (Tennessee) since the fall of 1985, when it was developed by seven members of the college community. The program's goal was to awaken career-oriented students to the full potential of a liberal arts education, and thus revitalize their commitment to social responsibility.…

Outlines an activity in which students clarify choices among personal and ecological values. Variables (including concerns of the natural environment and personal income) are rated from high to low within a total constraint set by the instructor. Uses of the activity in a college geology course for nonscience majors are discussed. (DH)

Presents a model that can be used by social scientists to formulate and test choice alternatives to select the most ethical course of action when values are in conflict. Graduate students in psychology, education, and medicine have used the model to recognize and resolve ethical problems. (RM)

Presented is an activity used to introduce students to the characteristics and aims of the curriculum project "Geography 16-19." Students investigate the ecological value of land proposed for residential development and formulate plans for building dwellings with minimal ecological damage. (DC)

Values clarification is a practical and realistic theory to help families settle conflicts. It opens lines of communication and cooperation. Several exercises are given for families and groups to use in understanding their own values. (JAC)

This monograph presents descriptive information on the health education program for elementary and secondary schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. It is prefaced by a statement of educational goals adapted for the public schools by the Board of Education. An overview of the program of studies from kindergarten through the twelfth grade provides…

Traces the history of moral education from the ethics-laden forties and fifties through the value-neutral sixties and seventies to the late eighties' focus on character, socialization, and culture. Offers a blueprint for future ethical instruction based on example, explanation, exhortation, environment, and experience. (MLH)