Today, e-learning and various online education applications are used in many countries and educational institutions than ever before. Ethics deals with the principle governing ideal or good behavior, it focuses on what is right or what is wrong. Although in education, the ethical issues that they may be facing are not about of life and death…

It is often argued that as "consumers" of higher education, students, parents and leaders need objective, comparative information generated through systematized assessment. In response, we critique this trend toward reductionist, comparative, and ostensibly objective assessments in the United States. We describe how management has…

The author purports the need to control technology for the well-being of mankind by understanding and cultivating its beneficial features and countering its harmful effects and misuse. The intent of the paper is to alert social studies teachers to the responsibility of bridging the gap between scientific and technological knowledge and civic and…

This handbook, developed by the California Moral Guidelines Implementation Committee, provides a structure of legal rights and responsibilities for school personnel and students in moral and civic education and teaching about religion. These guidelines were adopted by the California State Board of Education in 1973. Section 1 presents the legal…

Disillusionment with this society's basic institutions is not the sole domain of the young. During this crisis in leadership, the author advocates renewing and extending "... a sense of balance and proportion in attaining higher standards..." (Editor)

Article argues that a prime educational goal should be to promote abstract virtues of loyalty and courage in the student, and describes the pitfalls involved in trying to do this. (MM)

Reports results of a Phi Delta Kappa survey on moral education, showing that educators have concern for rising crime and declining family life and expect family and church to conduct moral education. (DW)

Suggests it is the responsibility of librarians and teachers to develop the imagination of children by exposing them to literature. Excerpts are used to illustrate literature as the basis of moral consciousness, personal enrichment, and culture. (Author/AEF)

Focusing on skills and attitudes necessary for responsible action, the handbook describes responsibility education programs for students and suggests resources for promoting program development. Responsibility education is defined as a process which gives students enriched school-directed citizenship experiences. Responsibility education…

The author maintains that college students are a key to value diffusion in our society and that student personnel workers hold unique opportunities in value transmission to students and, hence, to society. (Author/HMV)

The addresses and discussions of the 1970 Maryland Reading Institute focused on the theme of "accountability"--defined as the responsibilities of teachers to their students, community, and society. In Part 1, highlights of the keynote address are followed by summaries of a five-member panel discussion, five reactors' statements, and a concluding…

Discusses how reverence toward life should become a major organizing concept for social studies instruction. Provides 16 curricular examples that can increase student awareness of reverence and lack of reverence toward life. Contends our primary aim should be to help students investigate these situations and facilitate self-evaluation and action…

The meaning of education is addressed in this book of philosophical essays by seven authors. Focus is on education in the context of the issues that currently confront students, teachers, educational institutions, and people concerned with the quality of contemporary life. The volume examines the cultural foundations of society and finds the…