This study examined the moral discourse of 79 dyads of Taiwanese parents and children during shared storybook readings and the associations with children's cognitive and affective moral attributions. This study involved four- to six-year-old children who participated in a receptive language test and a moral reasoning task. Their responses were…

Video games have the potential to be contexts for moral learning. We investigated whether "Quandary," a video game designed to promote ethical thinking and moral considerations for decision-making, would help promote positive skills such as perspective taking and empathy in adolescents. We examined the effect of playing…

A case exists for there being a moral dimension to prison education and a case against moral education programs in prison. The argument is made that prisoners are one part of a large group of citizens who suffer from uneven development in the cognitive and moral realms due to biographical and structural factors. (Author/CT)

While agreeing with Scriven's exposition of the cognitive approach to moral education, the author disagrees with and comments on three points: the argument against developmentalists, morality and rational justification, and the affective aspect of moral argument. (DW)

Article investigated the possibility of teaching a non-sectarian morality in the multi-cultural school while benefiting Muslim, Humanist, Hindu and Jew. (Author/RK)

Extends parallel of cognitive and moral development to levels of spiritual development and denominational choice. Suggests with an awareness of the client's level of spiritual development, the therapist can be of greater assistance to clients asking for assistance in clarification of spiritual dilemmas. (Author/ABL)

Investigates the sequence and trajectory of the development of moral reasoning, particularly in adulthood, and the relationships among education, gender, and moral-reasoning-stage change. Results of interviews with predominantly white, well-educated, middle-class participants indicate that moral reasoning, as conceptualized by Kohlberg, can…

Last year, Prime Time School Television conducted a survey of teachers to determine what kinds of evening television programs would be most helpful in teaching. Those that developed values was the answer and this article considered how television programing was utilized to help students better understand moral values. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to discover if there was a relationship in decisions made between adults and 11-year old students assumed to be at different levels of the formal operations stage in their responses to a situation calling for a moral judgment. (Author)

Explains the Kohlberg moral stages in moral development, discusses the aims of moral and civic education, then describes the continuing experimental work at the Harvard Center for Moral Education. (Author/DW)

Sixty subjects were identified from two grade levels (second and fifth), in elementary schools in Iowa and in Jordan. Cognitive and moral judgment tasks were administered to each subject. The cognitive tasks measured conservation, class inclusion, multiplicative classification, and spatial perception. The moral judgment tasks presented situations…

A values analysis course, developed to improve critical thinking, is described. Included in the report is an evaluation of the students' reaction to the class which revealed a general work-play conflict inherent in the course and in college life itself. (JMD)

Relevant positions by social scientists, psychologists, educators, philosophers, and other professionals regarding moral education are cited. Related topics (e.g., values, ethics, and altruism) are examined, while philosophical underpinnings of morality plus theories on moral development are mentioned. The author concludes that morality can only…

Democratic Socialization is viewed from a cognitive developmental perspective in which hypothetico-deductive thinking and exposure to democratic models are seen as necessary, but not sufficient to development of democrative values. A taxonomy of democratic development is offered. (MS)

The affective and developmental approaches to moral education are described as inadequate, while the cognitive approach based on moral knowledge, moral reasoning, and the study of ethics is described as defensible and preferable, even though difficult to implement in public schools. (DW)