Emotion plays an important role in how young people acquire the skills, knowledge, and dispositions of engaged citizenship, including being able to empathize, listen to multiple perspectives, and build relationships of solidarity with others. This study investigated how social emotional learning (SEL) standards in 17 U.S. states guided the…

Schools are responsible for civic education and for educating the students so they may live together. This means that they need to develop educative processes that take into account the social and affective dimension of the classroom, such as improvements in the atmosphere at school and the quality of teacher-student relationships. Practical…

A cross-cultural study of attitudes toward the understanding of law provides a framework for examining levels of moral development of all children. Tentative optimism about the future of society is expressed. (Author/JB)

The major premise of the three essays in this booklet is that moral education in the schools is and will become even more explicit and direct. Another premise is that only through education do people become moral; ethical behavior arises neither from psychological predetermination nor from instinct. New approaches to moral education are necessary…

The practice of specialization in higher education programs to the exclusion of general education is discussed, with the author expressing the view that citizens should be aware of and knowledgeable about issues and that the ability to cope with decision making is a factor which may eliminate such social ills as violence. (JB)

Choice Awareness is a cognitive-affective-behavioral system designed to help young people and adults understand the continuous nature of their choices and to take more effective control in their own lives. (Author)

Techniques are presented which explore a single dimension of the subject under consideration as no technique, in and of itself, provides for a comprehensive analysis of the constitution. Approaches are presented which can be most effectively utilized by the teacher. (JB)

A practical model for developing positive attitudes toward law is demonstrated by an officer in the Tacoma (Washington) Police Department, as he visits schools to instruct children on safety rules. (JB)

The University of Victoria Program offers university-level courses mainly in the humanities and the social sciences to prisoners at Matsqui and Kent Institutions. Within this liberal arts approach there is a structural developmental thrust to promote cognitive and moral development and not simply to provide a general education or job skills.…