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Steiner, Elizabeth; Hitchcock, Ruth – Viewpoints in Teaching and Learning, 1980
Considers various approaches to moral education in the sciences, including values clarification, values analysis, and Kohlberg's moral reasoning approach. Then introduces the moral criticism approach as a procedure which is adequate for coming to conclusions about rightness or wrongness of actions relating to the use of scientific knowledge. (CS)
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