Sharply criticizes values clarification as a serious threat to moral existence and possibly to the physical existence of mankind. Values clarification, an educational innovation and a teaching technique, is harmful, says the author, because it tells students, in effect, that they need not come to decisions about serious moral questions and engage…

This document is written to describe a model which will enable teachers to incorporate values clarification and moral development within content-centered learning episodes. It also attempts to explain to teachers what the processes of values clarification and moral development are and to train teachers to recognize student verbal behaviors…

In response to the belief that the number one problem facing students today is their character and value system, school officials in Georgia's Carrollton City Schools District wished to implement a character education program. They were concerned, however, whether the program would be appropriate for all grade levels, and so they developed an…

Postulates that good citizens resemble self-actualized persons and that a goal of citizenship education should be to aid in the development of these traits. Offers nine examples of ways educators can promote good citizenship through humanistic education approaches. (CK)

Six different approaches to teaching values in the classroom are reviewed in this paper. Each approach is reviewed according to: (1) the rationale of the approach; (2) the process of valuing; (3) the teaching methods used to achieve the specific purpose to the approach; (4) an instructional mode or system of procedures used by teachers to…

Values and the process of valuing were studied among college students. A framework for conceptualizing college student values developed over a period of 2 years by a 10-member faculty and staff committee at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond) involved the movement of students from recognition of values, through critical thinking, to…