Educators are embracing character education as the latest panacea for schools'"crisis of values." Americans want schools to accomplish what is not occurring at home. Values are learned through observation and practice. The challenge is changing behaviors of those influencing children--work-centered parents, inconsistent teachers, and…

Argues that universities' complexity challenges the knowledge of those in student affairs with both legal and ethical dilemmas. Claims that student affairs needs to move beyond discussion of ethical codes and apply them to daily work. Professional organizations and preparation programs must be combined to improve ethical training in student…

Contains four articles covering trends and issues on ethics and privacy in instructional technology, including: considerations for assessing ethical issues; what schools must do to develop ethical behaviors in students; a privacy primer for educators; and manufacturing technophopia. Each article contains references. (MES)

Discusses how the book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" (Stephen Covey), can be used in the elementary school to teach character education using an informal approach in a school-wide effort. Relates the seven habits to the book, "Swimmy" (Leo Lioni). Includes a trade books list and the habit(s) each address. (CMK)

Questions whether morality should not be discussed in schools. Considers claims for the importance of morality by drawing on the work of John Wilson. Argues that the best strategy for public school environments would be to focus on morality in the narrow sense. (CMK)

Discusses a technique for organizing the Montessori Cosmic Education curriculum for children younger than 7-years-old that explores the possibilities of the curriculum by examining the characteristics of the learners, defining ideas and content, defining objectives, developing activities, arranging the sequence, and keeping records. Provides…

Moral education must be emphasized in schools, but first the school's proper role in this endeavor has to be determined. Teachers must learn to take responsibility for addressing moral issues that are proper to the functioning of an educational community, conveying the organic nature of ideals without degenerating into indoctrination. (SM)

Presents activities in which students are asked to (1) identify sources of duties affecting individual behavior; (2) define and give examples of legal, as well as social, religious and moral duties; (3) and compare social, religious, moral, and legal duties and discuss their relationships. (DB)

This article discusses what a teacher education curriculum in professional ethics might be like. Although professional ethics for teachers is not a form of moral education, a curriculum for educators needs to emphasize specific moral concepts that are central to what educators do. (IAH)

Leadership education is distinguished from leadership training, and moral education from moral indoctrination, in a discussion of the need to educate young gifted leaders in moral excellence. The role of parents is discussed, and parallels drawn between Bloom's Taxonomy and Kohlberg's model of cognitive moral development. (JW)

Issues in the inclusion of medical ethics in the medical curriculum are discussed, including its relevance, whether or not ethics can be taught, whose ethics should be taught, the contribution of the professional ethicist, and the relevance of humanistic studies outside ethics. (MSE)

A discussion of medical ethics in the medical curriculum reviews its recent history, examines areas of consensus, and describes teaching objectives and methods, course content, and program evaluation at preclinical and clinical levels. Prerequisites for successful institutionalization of medical ethics education are defined, and its future is…

Teachers play a crucial role in communicating community and societal values. Teacher education programs have a responsibility to equip preservice teachers with an awareness of their future roles as moral educators, and with the skills to create and implement a moral curriculum. (IAH)

Provides an overview of Puerto Rico's moral education program, an educational intervention policy conceived as a structured, permanent, and pervasive moral dimension of the entire public school curriculum. Identifies basic principles, goals, and teaching strategies; discusses the initial project phase; and examines current and projected…

Examines the claim of 16th-century English humanist educators that they prepared their students for civic life by providing not only technical training in language use but ethical and moral training for negotiating basic life situations. Attempts to determine what might have been the role of imitation exercises informing students' ethical…