The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is making it a requirement of all schools within the Emirates (both public and private) to follow a programme of moral education (MEP), at all ages from grades 1 to 13, which is designed centrally. Explicitly secular and humanist in its approach, this is a remarkable development in a country where Islam is the…

This article interacts with a recent article by Denise Cush and Catherine Robinson in which they call for a new dialogue between religious studies in universities and religious education, and identify a number of developments in religious studies that have implications for the practice of religious education in schools. Cush and Robinson are…

The only way out of our current nadir of morality is to utilize education to bring more ethics into the world. (Author)

Warnock believes that in moral education example is everything and instruction comparatively worthless. The assumptions behind this view are uncovered and demolished. (Author/RM)

John Wilson's reasoning--that, since moral education involves educating the emotions and certain of these emotions characterize religion, religious education falls within the sphere of moral education--is false, because such reasoning would reduce religion to morality on the grounds that religious people express emotion. (IS)

Sealey has misunderstood Wilson's position on religious education. Religious understanding must be accountable to the same forms of thought and rational procedure as other forms of understanding, such as science and history, or there is no point in attempting to teach it. (IS)

Hudson fails to satisfactorily defend his claim that young people who are not initiated into religion will grow up to be less than human. Further, because we cannot test the validity of religious beliefs by the methods used for other disciplines, religion has no place in the educational system. (IS)

Two questions are addressed: (1) What are the moral constraints upon the practice of religious education? and (2) What are the main ways in which religious education can supplement and enhance moral education? (RM)

Discusses the relationship between the education of the emotions and moral education. The author argues that moral education should be concerned both with right feeling and right action. The implications of this approach to moral education for multiracial education are discussed. (AM)

Three psychological approaches to moral education are analyzed. The author discusses how the three psychological theories differ regarding their ideas of the primary purpose of moral education. (AM)

Discusses the goals of moral education in terms of helping students to do more than tell the difference between good and bad and to make sound judgments. Moral educators should primarily be concerned with strengthening the wills of their students. (Author/KC)

In China, schools of a vocational nature are becoming increasingly important because of the needs of the developing socialist cause, and they are rapidly increasing in number. Some people maintain that vocational education and general education are identical in terms of theory and principle and that issues of vocational education can be resolved…

The schools are the agency that American society has set up to teach its youth knowledge and skills. The time has come for schools to take a more active role in the development of values and judgment standards, at least by providing a forum for discussing and examining such standards. (Author/JG)

Identifies five references helpful to educators wishing to incorporate moral and ethical values, particularly those involved with patriotism and citizenship, into the educational setting. Titles include "Kids and Citizenship: A National Survey"; "Character/Citizenship Education: A Pilot Study"; and "Basic Citizenship…

Examines the model for ethical-religious instruction introduced in Brandenburg (Germany) from a constitutional and structural-pedagogical viewpoint. Points to problems with both the proposed "uniform" and "plural" models: the first infringes on minorities' interests and the second presupposes a high degree of cooperation…