This paper explores the legal ramifications associated with teaching moral and spiritual values in the public schools. Following a history of the problem, the paper discusses four schemes currently used for teaching these values to the young: (1) withdrawing children from public schools to either enroll them in private or parochial schools, or…

Part of a 13-volume series designed to help Lutheran communities assess the feasibility of starting a Lutheran elementary school and to assist ongoing schools in current operation, this volume is intended to help Lutherans clarify why they might want such a school and its effects on the congregation. Most of the publication discusses reasons for…

A series of twelve essays discuss the use of audiovisuals in religious education. The essays are divided into three sections: one which draws on the ideas of Marshall McLuhan and other educators to explore the newest ideas about audiovisual language and faith, one that describes how to learn and use the new language of audio and visual images, and…

Recognizing the groundlessness of Kohlberg's dismissal of the Aristotelian view that virtues are acquired individually by practice, that view can possibly work in tandem with Kohlberg's for a complete theory of moral development. (Author/SJL)

Expresses concern for the way journalistic ethics is taught. Offers ways to improve such instruction. (RL)

The only way out of our current nadir of morality is to utilize education to bring more ethics into the world. (Author)

Author reflects on his association with psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg and his collaboration with Kohlberg in a project funded by the Danforth Foundation for research and development in moral education. (Author/NB)

Discusses the issue of moral blame as it relates to the AIDS epidemic. Argues that regarding AIDS as divine punishment for immorality is ethically and theologically unsound, resulting in a poor response to the AIDS crisis. States that self-righteous moral judgment is an inappropriate and un-Christian reaction toward AIDS victims. (GEA)

Canadian Public Issues (CPI) is a social studies education program which seeks to include the history of groups typically overlooked in traditional instruction. CPI is described and analyzed. A former CPI director responds to the criticisms, and in a final article, the author responds. (JL)

Discusses the results of a survey which examined mass media law instructors' attitudes and practices concerning the incorporation of ethics material into the media law curriculum. Reports that, although instructors believe ethics has an important relationship to media law, few instructors use materials that provide formal or theoretical grounding…

Discusses, with examples, how values and morality affect psychiatry and child rearing. Asserts that moral imperatives are taught primarily by example rather than by instruction. Also comments on the fallacy of "value free" psychiatry. (GC)

The problems physical educators have encountered in values development in a sports setting are discussed, and a model of a more productive approach is presented. The model suggests educators must make a stronger commitment to values education by being better role models and by teaching values. (Author/MT)

Discusses: (1) extrinsic ethics; (2) intrinsic ethics; (3) why ethics should be taught in science; and (4) ethics in the Science in Society course. (JN)

A model is proposed to explain how the learning process of ethical reasoning occurs. It integrates the learning process (Kolb, 1976) and a developmental scheme of ethical reasoning (Van Hoose, 1980). Implications for ethics training in educational programs and ethical behavior in professional practice are discussed. (Author)

A society is committed to basic moral principles as a function of being human and not merely by consensus. However, society's commitment to Christianity depends on the extent to which that faith is rooted in the population, even though the state may have a moral duty to provide religious freedom. (RM)