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Cromer, Janis L.; Loebe, A. C. – NASSP Bulletin, 1978
Outlines considerations to determine if a particular school will benefit from employing values clarification techniques. (MLF)
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Values, Values
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Brandt, Ron – Educational Leadership, 1988
When parents neglect their children's moral education and community influences are negative, schools need to form partnerships and work for change. This article reviews problems encountered when schools attempt to inculcate or clarify moral values and summarizes various authors' opinions on the subject. (MLH)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Values
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Knapp, Clifford E. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1981
Arguments are presented in support of values clarification as a viable teaching strategy to counter nine objections to this technique written in a 1980 article by Richard A. Baer, Jr. Arguments focus on values neutrality, religion, definitions, psychotherapy, freedom, subjectivity, privacy, research, and biases. (DC)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Moral Values, Teaching Methods
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Baer, Richard A., Jr. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1981
Maintaining and clarifying objections to values clarification originally reported in 1980, responses are given to comments about these objections discussed by Clifford E. Knapp in another article in this journal. (DC)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Moral Values, Teaching Methods
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Lockwood, Alan L. – Teachers College Record, 1975
This essay discusses three problem areas in values clarification: (1) the definition of value, (2) the characterization of effective treatment, and (3) the moral point of view. (CD)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Education, Ethics
Caldwell, Robert L. – 1978
The major premise of this paper is that the values clarification approach to moral issues is a form of doublespeak based on flawed thinking. Following an examination of examples of doublespeak, the paper discusses the concept of subjectivity in "Teaching As a Subversive Activity," by N. Postman and C. Weingartner, arguing that their…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Higher Education
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Lovin, Robin W. – American Journal of Education, 1988
Value neutrality and values clarification fail to foster critical thinking about values. The values articulation approach identifies the rationality that is applied to value claims. It avoids noncognitivism and moral relativism and suggests ways the discussion of values in the classroom prepares students to deal with broader moral issues. (VM)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Cultural Pluralism, Ethical Instruction, Moral Development
Kirschenbaum, Howard; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Moral Values
Simon, Sidney B.; deSherbinin, Polly – Phi Delta Kappan, 1975
Values clarification is defined, explained, and described in the school setting, and the areas of expansion are listed. (DW)
Descriptors: Drug Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Moral Development
Abercrombie, Charlotte Manning – 1974
In this study, reading textbooks were analyzed for moral content. From the findings of this analysis the extent of the use of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development in the textbooks was determined. The greatest amount of attention in one series was given to the category of helpfulness, while little attention was given to the categories of…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Moral Development
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Kazepides, A. C. – Journal of Educational Thought, 1977
Traces the origin of the Values Clarification movement in education in Carl Roger's clien-centered therapy and exposes its unwarranted extreme ethical stance. Examines a model episode of values clarification and shows how the theoretical confusions of the Values Clarification proponents are reflected in their actual teaching strategies. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Moral Values, Persuasive Discourse
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Ohlde, Carroll D.; Vinitsky, Michael H. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
Effects of self-esteem and values-clarification strategies on value awareness were assessed in an hour values-clarification workshop. Subjects participating in the workshop showed significantly greater gains in value awareness than nonparticipants, confirming that values-clarification strategies are valid means for clarifying personal values of…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Research Projects, Self Concept
Platek, Theresa F. – 1975
The primary concern of this study was the observable aspects of the valuing process as that process becomes apparent in adolescents' expressed responses to short stories. A secondary concern was to determine to what degree the reading of fiction facilitates the valuing process and to conjecture about the benefit of value strategies for teaching…
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, Case Studies, Critical Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
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Lockwood, Alan L. – Review of Educational Research, 1978
Research on the values clarification and moral development approaches to values education is reviewed. The purpose of the research, sample, treatment duration, instrumentation, effects of treatment, internal and external validity problems, major strengths and weaknesses, and confidence in researcher's claims are provided for each study. Further…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Moral Development
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Creamer, Robert C.; Creamer, Janice Kurth – Contemporary Education, 1978
The development of values clarification in education can open the door to growth and self-fulfillment for the individual. (JD)
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Decision Making, Individual Development, Middle Schools
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