Presents an overview of the evolving conception of the nature of individual personality, showing how self-images emerge out of style-and-value commitments. Considers interactive relations between individual and society and the possible images of humankind that stem from societal style and value commitments. (JN)

This paper describes guiding principles of educational reform founded upon character education. The signatories of the declaration recognize the following precepts for character education: (1) Education in its fullest sense is inescapably a moral enterprise; (2) We strongly affirm parents as the primary moral educators of their children and…

Identity is the complex way a person identifies with, and is identified by, his environment. Multiple identities result from the many ways a person has been successfully identified. Identities coexist; sometimes the dominance of one over others becomes evident, and a vertical structure of identities arises. (CS)