Nine suggestions on how to teach pop culture. (DD)

Analyzed the lyrics of the 100 most popular songs in America from the 1950s to the 1980s to assess their value themes. Extracted nine value themes: romantic love, celebration, humanitarianism, antiestablishmentarianism, friendship, patriotism, narcissism, self-esteem, and nostalgia. Romantic love, particularly that of "innocent" young…

Values education is essential for teaching children personal responsibility and ethical decision making. Teachers can be trained on a schoolwide basis to teach core values, along with accompanying skills and behavior. Jefferson Center has identified language and thinking patterns that must be changed to help students learn behavior appropriate to…

Presenting concept of service to self and others as important life principle gives high school additional formula for success and achievement. Leadership class at Cornwall (New York) Central High School is full-year course open to all students, staff, and parents. Program's chief commitment is serving others' needs through values clarification…

The Vancouver Declaration on Survival in the 21st Century discusses the history of human activities that threaten the environment and an alternative set of human values that allow people to survive in harmony with their environment. Signatories to the declaration are listed. (BG)

Describes an effort to incorporate personal values awareness into a university preparation program aimed at future school administrators. This model allows future leaders opportunities to identify the values governing their actions, clarify their philosophical leadership foundations, reflect on current educational practices, and determine…

Discusses how social workers' ethical decisions are influenced by professional roles, practice experiences, individualized perspectives, personal preferences, motivations, and attitudes. Posits that through reflective self-awareness, social workers can recognize their value preferences and recognize the ways in which these values unknowingly…

This paper, intended to assist users in developing a rationale for vocational education, lists a series of values, followed by two or more citations from the literature that support the particular item. The thesis of the paper is that vocational education can and does play a number of significant roles in the secondary school setting. The values…

Reports on research to see if value clarification would affect student attitudes toward science and biology and improve achievement in a BSCS Yellow Version biology course. Results indicated higher achievement by the group exposed to value clarification but no significant difference in attitudes between this group and the control group. (BR)

By observing the patterns of language that students use, teachers may infer that valuing is taking place. They may then plan, teach, and assess learning according to student performance. (JH)

The following papers (with authors and respondents) were presented at the annual conference of the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society: (1) "Education as a Liberal Field of Study" (Walter Feinberg) Respondent--Eric Bredo; (2) "The Meaning of Foundations: An Alternative Paradigm for Assessing the Effects of Foundational…

This digest contains an abridgment of a section of a chapter on "Environmental Education Research Related to Issue Awareness" from the 1984 National Commission for Environmental Education Research (NCEER) Report. The paper was prepared by Randall Wiesenmeyer, Maureen Murrin, and Audrey Tomera. Only the section of the paper dealing with…

Teachers in three California public schools were educated in the use of values clarification. Their experimental class groups were matched with other sixth-grade groups in the same schools. The teachers used selected value clarifying strategies for three months in their regular classes, adapting them as necessary to the health education content…

Provides a detailed account and critique of all of Lawrence Kohlberg's writings dealing with the seventh stage of his moral development theory. Discusses the uniqueness of stage seven as compared to one through six. Concludes that stages one through six culminate in, but are not lessened by, stage seven. (Author/AEM)

Although it is often useful to accept students' value statements nonjudgmentally, values clarification theory recommends that teachers go beyond moral leadership and help students learn to think through their personal values and understand what it takes to live a value-directed life. Methods to promote and clarify our "heritage of moral values"…