Suggests that serious problems exist with a moral education program built around Lawrence Kohlberg's approach of analyzing predesigned moral dilemmas. The dilemmas are often unrealistic. Although students usually try to find alternatives to the situation, as one would do in real life, teachers discourage them from doing so. (Author/KC)

Seeing our society at a transition point, the author describes educational approaches which can either hinder the development of socialistic consciousness by training the young as bosses-to-be or help the transition to socialism by presenting students with the reality of classism, racism, and impersonalism. (SJL)

Many law students believe theory and practice do not have much to do with one another, and are more interested in practice. The theory/practice (traditionalist/clinical) dichotomy is devisive and destructive, and the two sides are challenged to come to terms with it for the sake of the profession and society. (MSE)

By omitting the private and positive dimensions of morality and focusing on a single dimension of moral experience, interpersonal value conflict, Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Development Program presents a one-sided interpretation of ethics--one which in educational practice is likely to produce morally imbalanced students. (Author/LC)

Moral education in the basic schools of the Netherlands is a counterpart of religion in the denominational schools. It is organized by the Dutch Humanistisch Verbond (Humanist League) which also trains humanistic educational teachers. That organization defines the humanistic context of this form of education. (Author/SJL)

Critiquing Skinner's and Kohlberg's moral development theories as inadequate, the author asserts that affective development (compassion, empathy, caring) is necessary to moral action. While saying that schools are limited in their ability to provide moral education, he outlines qualities of an educational environment which could facilitate moral…

Remarks directed to Peter Augustine Lawler and an earlier article are presented. The rationale for a program of philosophy for children developed at Montclair State College is compared with Roland Garrett's conception of philosophy. Distortions in Lawler's perception of current philosophical practice and teaching are indicated. (MLW)

Presents a policy recommendation regarding the inclusion of a systematic study of ethics into counselor education programs. Arguments for and against the inclusion of applied moral philosophy are described. (RC)

Four papers on values education with gifted students are presented. (CL)

Because parents have abdicated to schools the responsibility for teaching ethics, New Rochelle High School has developed a "Curriculum For Caring" based on the ideas of Urie Bronfenbrenner. The authors describe the general content and objectives of this required program and note that student absenteeism and misbehavior have declined.…

An analysis is proposed which reduces the concept of imagination to certain logically distinct forms and modes of imagining. This analysis is related to contemporary definitions of the educated person. Implications for moral education are presented together with an examination of philosophies which oppose development of children's imagination.…

The University of Victoria program at Matsqui Institution is based on Kohlberg's theory of moral development. The replicability of the program is discussed, and analyzed in terms of relations with the institution, type of courses, program climate, and staffing. The necessity for developing student identity is emphasized. (MSE)

Although research on the moral development of college students is in its infancy, recent findings indicate promise for future study and institutional action. The theory of moral development is described from a cognitive developmental perspective, and research on improving thinking about justice and fairness at the college level is examined.…

Efforts to deal with a continuing crisis in sociological values must involve the best that education, the humanities, and the behavioral sciences can offer. (Author)

Presents results of a study regarding the status of the teaching of ethics in American higher education. Five general goals are proposed in the report for the teaching of ethics and recommendations are made for the introduction of new courses in ethics. (CS)