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Juby, Heather; Marcil-Gratton, Nicole – Human Resources Development Canada, 2002
It has long been accepted that the social and economic well-being of adults is determined principally by their passage through childhood and that well-adjusted children emerge most often from healthy families. Creating the stability, emotional warmth and security of a healthy family environment is a challenge to parents at the best of times, but…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Science Research, Family Life, Family Environment
Dowd, Alicia C. – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2005
This report reviews the benchmarking practices that are presently being used at community colleges. It introduces the concept of a "culture of inquiry" as a means for judging their potential value. It classifies benchmarking efforts among three types--performance, diagnostic, and process--and characterizes each by its typical use. The…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Community Colleges, Value Judgment, College Outcomes Assessment

Behre, William J.; Astor, Ron Avi; Meyer, Heather Ann – Journal of Moral Education, 2001
Compares middle-school and elementary school teachers' reasoning about their professional roles when violence occurs in school subcontexts such as hallways, cafeterias, and playgrounds. Uses concepts from urban planning, architecture, criminology, and cognitive developmental domain theory to explore teachers' moral attitudes toward school…
Descriptors: Architecture, Cognitive Development, Corridors, Criminology
Ashley, Martin – Environmental Education, 1995
Argues against teaching approaches that put moral pressure on students. Students should not be expected to make environmental behavioral changes beyond their power. Children often do not have the free will to respond to moral promptings. Suggests cross-curricular alliances of economics, environmental education, and citizenship education that place…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Citizenship Education, Conservation Education, Elementary Secondary Education

Nelson, Jack L. – Social Education, 1990
Presents a classroom activity designed to involve students in critical thinking and values inquiry concerning the horizontal nuclear proliferation. Provides a set of global values, explaining the conflict between them and nuclear proliferation. Uses indicators, hypothesis development, and testing. Provides sources for material evidence to use in…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Current Events, Ethical Instruction, Global Approach
Magner, Denise K. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
Alverno College students receive no grades and do not compete with each other, but to graduate, they must demonstrate competence in eight "abilities": communication, analysis, problem solving, valuing, social interaction, taking responsibility for the global environment, effective citizenship, and aesthetic response. (MSE)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Church Related Colleges, Citizenship, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Kurtines, William M.; Berman, Steven L. – Moral Education Forum, 1995
Briefly reports, defines, and classifies central questions and issues in moral education. Traces recent theoretical developments in moral philosophy and moral reasoning and relates these to education for democratic values. Concludes with a recommendation to apply these principles globally. (MJP)
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Design, Democratic Values, Educational Change

Speicher, Betsy – Developmental Psychology, 1994
A longitudinal study of family patterns of moral reasoning compared relationships between parent and offspring reasoning from early adolescence to adulthood. Consistent patterns were found. During adolescence, parental judgment correlated to offspring reasoning but more so for girls than boys; among young adults, fathers' judgment and education…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cross Sectional Studies, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Attitudes

Cyzyk, Mark – College and Research Libraries, 1993
The canons of literature, and their relationship to research, scholarship, and collection development are discussed, arguing that a dilemma exists for the collection development officer between neglecting possible important future materials or collecting such items to the detriment of current research needs. (18 references/notes) (EA)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Citations (References), Cultural Context, Evaluation Criteria

Sachs, John – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
In samples of 1,005 adolescents and adults in Hong Kong and 281 adolescents and adults in London (England), Moral Development Test patterns conform to that predicted by L. Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development (1969), but the degree of association between the stages differed between cultures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Affective Measures, Cognitive Tests

Zern, David S. – Adolescence, 1991
Surveyed 1,913 students on extent and type of influence they thought desirable in developing moral judgment in elementary, secondary, and college students. Average response across subjects, year of administration, and age of individuals for whom item was being tapped was highest for influence of individual him/herself and relatively high for three…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Clergy, College Students

Collier, Gerald – Studies in Higher Education, 1993
It is argued that there is an urgent need to teach college students to recognize and think critically about moral issues. The existential dimension of this education is examined, and two methods of teaching values are discussed: systematic use of small group discussion, and use of fictional films and literature. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Students, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Needs
Conley, David T.; Rooney, Kathryn C. – Educational Policy Improvement Center (NJ1), 2007
The goal of this study was to determine the level of educational expenditure necessary to make ample provision for the education of all students, providing all students with the skills to meet long-term academic standards, pursue additional learning beyond high school, and become productive citizens and contributing members of society. This study…
Descriptors: Evidence, Expenditures, Expenditure per Student, Intervention
Stepath, Carl; Whitehouse, Hilary – Online Submission, 2006
Background: This article concerns learning with high school students and the effect of snorkeling and coral reef monitoring at the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The effectiveness of classroom learning, student-reef relationships and reef trips were investigated. Purpose: This paper presents selected student accounts of reef educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Research Design, Proximity
Wernstedt, Kris; Meyer, Peter B.; Alberini, Anna – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2006
We employ a mail survey of private developers that uses conjoint choice experiments and Likert-scaled attitudinal questions to examine preferences for policy instruments and incentives intended to encourage brownfield cleanup and redevelopment. Our analysis suggests that developers judge public hearing requirements at brownfield redevelopments…
Descriptors: Private Financial Support, Land Use, Development, Industrialization