This book argues that understanding the current state of academic teaching, and the study of religion in higher education, requires familiarity with the individuals and organizations that have shaped the field and, more importantly, with the arguments used to justify religion as a field of academic inquiry. The primary focus of the book is on the…

This resource book provides ideas, strategies, techniques, examples, and resources for organizing, implementing, sustaining, and assessing character education programs in K-12 schools. The text is organized into several topics: (1) historical and theoretical bases for character education; (2) a description of a comprehensive character education…

In the St. Louis, Missouri archdiocese Catholic students in public schools enroll part-time in a Catholic school for religious instruction. (DS)

In delineating a program of moral education for the schools, the question must be asked whether a framework of moral education can be provided that is constructive and responsible, and that does not simply impose a set of authoritarian values, yet give a child some guidance. (Author)

Given our present moral knowledge and human needs, a new discipline of Life Values Education, and particularly of Life Values guidance and counseling, is both a possibility and necessity. (Author)

Analyzes the role of the school as the socializer of the developing child, the processes occurring within the school as an organization, and finally the nature of the society of which the child eventually becomes a part. (Author/RK)

Harold I. Lief, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania and Ernest van den Haag, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Social Philosophies, New York University debate the question of the appropriateness of sex education in the schools. (BY)

The interrelationships of morality, sanity and responsibility are sensitively sketched in their bearings on undergraduate education. (Editor)

Described is the evolution of a program that integrated applied sociology into a liberal arts curriculum. Because sociology requires choices among alternative courses of action, the career-oriented program involved students in analyzing case studies in ethical practice. (Author/RM)

Describes and evaluates four approaches to helping Catholic adolescents in their moral growth: using case studies to build knowledge of values and morality; providing moral models with whom young people can identify; presenting a positive ideology; and helping students recognize and respond to God's presence in their lives. (AYC)

All 159 dental hygiene programs responding to a survey include ethics in the curriculum, most as part of a larger course, or separately with jurisprudence. Great variation was found in teaching method and amount of time devoted to ethics. Respondents were satisfied with the curriculum, but questioned their competence to teach ethics. (Author/MSE)

The cognitive-developmental theory of moral development of the handicapped--i.e., a stage-like progress of moral reasoning with age--is only partially confirmed. While there is a development from the less to the more mature forms of moral reasoning, that course of development is not entirely such as the theory assumes. (Author/RM)