To help aid teachers and librarians in the search for appropriate resources to emphasize good character traits, this book provides an annotated guide to picture storybooks and the character traits each describes. It begins with an introduction that defines character, offers a history of character education, discusses what character education is,…

This article defines moral education, gives current examples of classroom experience in moral education, literature and program materials available and lists some problems the idea is encountering. (JA)

Outlines options available to schools, offers suggestions to teachers of sex education, and concludes that schools must work with parents to face up to the challenge of accurate and adequate sex education for all grades. (CJ)

The nature of the Soviet system of atheistic indoctrination is elaborated as an organic part of the entire process of teaching and upbringing, taught in all grades, in all subjects, and in all extracurricular and extra-school work. It is based on scientific criticism of religion, deduction, interdisciplinary study, militant student participation…

An analysis of the forms and methods by which the clergy influences the young people of the Soviet Union. An understanding of these makes it possible to define vital problems in atheistic work, especially in the school. (Author/SE)

A primary concern of teachers should be teaching students to value, to intellectually understand, and critically appraise values of three types: procedural, behavioral, substantive. (Author/SE)

Morals as well as cognitive learning should be part of school and college curriculums. (AF)

College faculty members should try to combine the college curricular and extracurricular activities of their students. (Editor)

"Training junior-high-age students in decision making with VTRs. (Editor)

The view that links a subjectivist view in ethics to an open approach to moral education is challenged, as well as the converse view that an objectivist ethical view entails a conformist approach. A liberal theory of moral education need not be morally neutral. (Author/RM)

Three Christian documents, the "Fourth R" (the "Durham Report" on religious education), "Teaching Christian Ethics," and "The Child in the Church," are used to show that Christians can help young people consider issues in moral education in a balanced way and, thus, arrive at their own conclusions. (Author/RM)

Proposes that college level ethics instructors and psychological researchers collaborate for the sake of improving ethics courses, evaluating programs, and advancing research. Journal available from The Hastings Center, 360 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706. (AM)

Reviews the literature advocating tolerance in moral education as a response to an increasingly pluralistic British society. The author analyzes the relationship between tolerance and pluralism. (AM)

Presents a response to P.C. Potgieter's article "Moral Education in South Africa" (v9 n2 Jan 1980). Philosophical and sociological inconsistencies in Potgieter's paper are pointed out. The author argues that Potgieter ignores the socio-structural complexities which often make South African's moral education a form of indoctrination. (AM)

Points to three deficiencies in values clarification as a program of moral education; i.e., failure to distinguish the intellectual traits essential in moral valuing; failure to contribute to students' moral development; and failure to consider the purpose and mechanics of moral argument. Concludes that values clarification promotes ethical…