The document provides very thorough guidelines for planning, implementing, and evaluating "character education," (or moral/values education, or citizenship education) in elementary and secondary schools. Character education promotes students' positive and realistic self-image, respect for others, and decision-making skills for participation in…

Designed for use in curriculum development, this value orientation packet addresses the cultural value orientations of American Indians (specifically, the Lakota on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota) and those of mainstream society in an effort to help individuals understand that values differ from culture to culture. Specifically, this…

Describes a model course for the study of ethics in professional preparation programs of health educators. The article reviews related literature, discusses the importance of including ethics instruction in professional preparation, and describes proposed course goals, suggesting content areas, teaching methods, and student activities. (SM)

With the hope of providing materials for use and adaptation in Oklahoma schools for improvement in all areas of human relations, a guide to the implementation of the principles of human relations in the educational system, of inservice programs, of self evaluation and of resource activities is offered. Four short sections discuss the American…

This humanistic curriculum project concerning good and evil is part of a model program of inservice training and curriculum redesign for grades K-12 known as Project SEARCH. Objectives of the unit are to provide students an understanding that good and evil are a reflection of man's values, a comprehension of modern scientific theories on the…

Educators have become increasingly aware of the complexity of most environmental problems. This realization has resulted in a recognition that scientific and technological solutions in themselves may be a major means for dealing with our environmental problems; but underlying nearly all environmental problems and solutions are human attitudes and…

The purpose of the paper is to stress the development of content-centered classroom activities useful for attaining values clarification and/or moral development goals. The objective is to help teachers understand the formulation of content-centered learning activities so that they will be able to plan and produce their own value sheets or moral…

The module is the fourth of a series of seven discrete modules designed to assist elementary school teachers in the development of a career education program or to enrich an already established program. Module 4 may be used separately or in conjunction with the other modules. The module contains four units which cover the topics of the purposes…

This multidisciplinary multi-period community-based environmental curriculum blends the academic traditions of the humanities and the sciences, namely: social sciences, language art skills, and the physical and life sciences. The centralizing theme of the program is directed toward defining environmentally related problems utilizing the community…

This document is the presenter's guide to SO 008 871. The document is the result of three and one-half years of effort to improve social studies in the secondary schools in Iowa. Perspectives, part one of the two-part series, presents information and background to aid in the reform, innovation, and evaluation of social studies programs. This…

The publication represents the result of the Consumer Education Task Force's attempt to develop competencies applicable to a K-12 continuum. It has been designed to provide school district personnel with relevant data to support a comprehensive curriculum development effort; or to support a variety of alternative approaches at various grade…

This overview was designed to illustrate how elementary education is a total program based on the natural growth and development of children. Ten humanistic goals are identified as of fundamental importance for a fully educated person, and the responsibilities of the school in achieving these goals are discussed. Three educational objectives are…

In 1973, Pennsylvania Secretary of Education John C. Pittenger declared legal education a curriculum priority of the Department of Education. A major component of this curriculum development was the formation of the goals of legal education. The goals were formulated in terms of student competencies. This publication lists these competencies,…

Discusses: (1) David Hawkins' theory that humans are equal, free, and rational; (2) the kinds of curricular, methodological, and administrative changes required by schools in order to bring about equality, freedom, and rationality; and (3) application of the findings to the Four M (multilingual, multicultural, multimodal, and multidimensional)…

The Indiana Department of Education recently convened a task force to identify universal basic values and to determine how these values can be successfully infused into school curricula. Accordingly, in collaboration with the Indiana School Counselors Association (ISCA), the Department established a working committee to construct a developmentally…