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Schweigert, Francis J. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2011
Internal evaluators encounter risks but also significant opportunities to strengthen organizational and professional ethics. Potential contributions depend, in part, on the conjunction of ethics and evaluation in the role of the internal evaluator as the person specially commissioned to investigate value and render judgment based on evidence…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Risk, Ethics, Guidelines
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Wilhelm, Gretchen M.; Firmin, Michael W. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2008
Character is defined broadly by leading authorities, including concepts such as practicing apt behavior and teaching right from wrong. Virtue and moral undertones tend to pervade most experts' use of character, although in secular settings, the notion of ethics is more prominent. Overall, developing in students a desire for the good is how most…
Descriptors: Values Education, Moral Values, Religious Education, Christianity
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Kaufman, Roger – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
In this article, the author discusses his researched framework that has been used in government organizations, the military (including international militaries), large corporations around the globe, and educational institutions such as the Sonora Institute for Technology in Sonora, Mexico. This framework is termed an "Ideal Vision" that expresses…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Foreign Countries, Ethics, Definitions
Kidder, Rushworth M. – School Administrator, 2008
The core challenge is this--a difficult ethical decision, where values are in play and both sides have powerful moral arguments in their favor. One case presented in this article outlines a dilemma faced by one teacher who became a superintendent herself. The case exploded dramatically in a midsize metropolitan school district, where a principal…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Ethics, Superintendents, Leadership Responsibility
Corder, Gregory W. – 1999
Values clarification involves presenting a hypothetical situation to students that requires them to make a moral judgment. That moral judgment must be publicly affirmed by the student, but not criticized by others. Values clarification's philosophical context is existentialist. The values clarification philosophies and methods were consistent with…
Descriptors: Ethics, High Schools, Humanism, Middle Schools
Penland, Lynn R.; Beyrer, Mary K. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1981
The teaching of ethics or controversial issues in health education must meet two criteria: (1) The controversy must be addressed from various viewpoints; and (2) The issues must involve questions of right and wrong. Examples of values clarification activities are given. (JN)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Ethical Instruction
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Creager, Joan G. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1980
Examines the need for the inclusion of ethics in science instruction and discusses three approaches that can be used in teaching ethical decision-making: values clarification, case studies, and simulations. Provides an example of a classroom activity combining these approaches. (JP)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Colleges, Decision Making, Ethics
Shelton, Robert L. – 1983
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…
Descriptors: Affection, Course Descriptions, Ethics, Higher Education
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de Caprariis, Pascal P. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1985
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)
Descriptors: College Science, Ecology, Educational Games, Environmental Education
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Scales, Peter – Journal of School Health, 1981
Right-wing conservatives and religious groups have mobilized grass roots support for a campaign to eradicate sex education from schools. To meet the challenge posed by these groups, the nature of this opposition and what they are saying, must be understood. (FG)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Adolescents, Censorship, Democratic Values
Rezmierski, Virginia E. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1992
With use of information technology in colleges, dilemmas concerning ethics and values arise, and policies are needed to guide administrative decision making. The University of Michigan has developed a "proper use" policy to encourage values definition and clarification and a "think about it" implementation campaign to extend…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Case Studies, College Administration, Conflict Resolution
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Mehl, James V. – Interdisciplinary Humanities, 1995
Describes a college-level course that uses classic texts, such as Plato's "The Republic" and Thomas More's "Utopia," to consider concepts related to the "good society." Expands this initial approach to include consideration of a postmodernist perspective. This perspective encourages consideration of texts and ideas…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Responsibility, Content Analysis
Science, Technology & Society, 1988
Summarizes a workshop at the 1988 AAAS Annual Meeting to examine ethics and values education and research. Issues a series of conclusions and recommendations for expanding and improving work in the field. Notes a need to increase preservice and inservice training in ethics and values studies for science teachers. (MVL)
Descriptors: College Science, Conferences, Elementary School Science, Engineering
Lisman, C. David – 1992
In fall of 1989, the Community College of Aurora (CCA) (Colorado) started a program entitled "Integrating the Teaching of Ethics in the Community College Curriculum." Eighty-four faculty members participated in a seminar on the curricular integration of ethics. They then implemented an ethics focus in their courses, affecting…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Critical Thinking, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
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McNurlin, Kathleen Woitel – Interdisciplinary Humanities, 1995
Continues an article that began in the summer 1995 "Interdisciplinary Humanities." Examines ethical concerns about nuclear power, societal control, and prejudice articulated in science fiction literature. Authors studied include Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Damon Knight. The earlier article covered literature concerned with ecology…
Descriptors: Bias, Ecology, Ethics, Higher Education
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