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Nicholes, Daniel R. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1981
In response to the Pekarsky article in the Spring 1980 issue of "Theory and Research in Social Education," the author argues that moral dilemma stories are an appropriate teaching approach for a moral education program. Moral dilemma discussions benefit both teachers and students. (RM)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Teaching Methods, Values Clarification

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

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

Kirschenbaum, Howard – Social Education, 1977
The author describes values clarifiction as an educational approach which employs practical strategies, is consistent with democratic society, covers a variety of issues, adapts to all subject matter, and can be done at all ability levels. (Author/AV)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Social Studies

Lockwood, Alan L. – Social Education, 1977
The values clarification approach contains conceptual, ethical, and practical flaws. These include failure to distinguish moral from non-moral value issues, use of methods which jeopardize students' privacy rights, reliance on assumptions and methods of approaches to therapy, and absence of persuasive research to support claims of effectiveness.
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Social Studies
Sinatra, Richard; Kinsler, Karen Taber – 1975
Values clarification strategies or activities in which children explore, list, order, and code their experiences and thoughts, combined with language experience techniques, can provide meaningful reading situations. Values strategies function as affective mobilizers to bring a child's attitudes and emotions into interaction with learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Language Experience Approach, Reading Instruction, Self Concept
Wiggins, Gene – G/C/T, 1978
Guidelines in value clarification are offered to help the teacher of gifted students increase self-knowledge through prizing, choosing, and acting. Questions for the teacher as well as a sample lesson plan are provided. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Individual Power, Self Concept
Kirschenbaum, Howard; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Moral Values
Berghammer, Gretta – 1985
One dramatic technique to aid students in their discovery of values and value systems is "theatre-in-education" (TIE), a theatre event that takes place in schools, with actors working through roles for and with children. TIE aims to fuse education and theatre by having team members function as both teachers and actors, and the audiences of young…
Descriptors: Acting, Creative Dramatics, Drama, Dramatics

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

Richardson, Glenn E. – Journal of School Health, 1981
Educational imagery is a teaching method that guides students into decision-making situations through directed daydreaming or fantasizing. The theory is that if a decision is clearly imagined and acted out, the process will be facilitated in real life. (JN)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Fantasy

Chilver, Peter – English in Education, 1980
Suggests that an individual's culture may be seen as a developing interaction to three different levels of experience--personal, interpersonal, and impersonal--and that English teachers need to think out their work in relation to all three levels. (GT)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education

McGough, Kris – Social Education, 1977
The author criticizes values clarification techniques done without parental consent in non-elective courses because they invade privacy, lead to ethical relativism, and have the potential to damage children's ego-strength. (Author/AV)
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Individual Development

Boyd, Dwight; Bogdan, Deanne – Educational Theory, 1984
This article explores the validity of values clarification as an approach to values education. Several passages from "Values and Teaching: Working with Values in the Classroom" (1966 and 1978, Raths, Harmin, and Simon) are used in a discussion of criticisms leveled against values clarification. (DF)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Theories

Caduto, Michael – Journal of Environmental Education, 1983
Describes and evaluates eight valuing strategies for both general values education and environmental values education. Strategies include laissez faire; moral development, inculcation; values analysis; action learning (service learning); confluent education; and behavior modification. (JN)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Higher Education