Presents an overview of articles written for this issue. Discusses what it means to focus on feminist perspectives of moral education and development. Suggests that conclusions about gender differences in morality are affected by methodology and that multiple methodologies and diverse samples should be employed. (DH)

Examines inconsistencies in individual nurses' decisions about ethical situations and their justifications in the light of changes due to contemporary feminism and professionalization of the nursing role. Suggests empirical identification of ambiguities identified by practitioners be added as a component of professional education. (Author/DH)

Explores characteristics of conscience in a technological society, describing conscience in the context of (1) craft; (2) membership; (3) sacrifice; (4)memory; and (5) imagination. Draws upon ancient and contemporary roots to build the discussion. Concludes with a challenge to society's institutions to provide "rootedness" and "vision" for balance…

Examines the nature of didacticism, the view that there are universal moral values that are conveyed through literature. Examines six commonly held ideas concerning the limits of didacticism in hope of providing renewed interest in its possibilities. (JDH)

Teacher educators, the author argues, should raise the ethical consciousness of preservice teachers to the multiple moral realities of the work world. Teacher educators should foster teachers' abilities to develop strategies and skills for diagnosing ethical issues and making sound ethical judgments. Examples are presented. (MT)

Draws a distinction between moral education and moral training. Maintains that a moral education should provide secondary school students with an understanding of the transcultural essence of morality which could first be approached through the writings of Plato. (JDH)

Examines the nature and significance of the relationship between race, culture and morality. Draws implications for the classroom teacher in relation to schooling generally and moral education in particular. (Author/JDH)

Reviews the contents of the March, 1985 "Swann Report" which looked at the task of educating British children for a just and harmonious multicultural society. Gives special attention to the moral and ethical dimensions of this task. (JDH)

Moral education at its most effective is philosophical education taught to elementary school children using inquiry. Children can discuss ethical issues in a thoughtful, objective, and reasonable manner. Such an education is the antithesis of indoctrination and gives children the intellectual tools they need to think autonomously about moral…

The writings of Peters on moral education span a period of about 20 years. Considered here are his recommendations, particularly in terms of practical assistance than can be derived from them for those interested in moral education. (Author/RM)

Drawing on the work of Erich Fromm and other thinkers, this essay concludes that schools can best offer moral education by treating students as people; teaching them philosophy and the receptive mode of thought, as in meditation; and discovering and presenting the self as a nucleus of communion and interrelatedness. (MJL)

This book discusses how students and practitioners should take into account four ethics paradigms to help solve authentic dilemmas. These paradigms are the ethic of justice, ethic of care, ethic of critique, and ethic of the profession. The book's purposes include demonstrating the application of these different paradigms through the discussion…

This paper posits the thesis that socialization into the profession of psychology is a process of acculturation. Students enter training with their own value traditions but are required to learn new ones when they become psychologists. The assumptions of the framework are that this "professional acculturation" (a) takes place over time, (b)…

This paper recommends an approach to moral education that helps students become better learners while becoming better people. The approach rests on six assumptions: an overarching aim of schooling is to provide students with a moral education; moral education is accomplished through direct instruction; an indirect approach to moral education based…

By focusing the research on Kant's theory of moral education, this Chinese language thesis aims to inquire into the essential nature of morality and the incentive to moral practice to arrive at the basic principles of cultivation of moral personality. The thesis first analyzes and makes a comparison among four schools of moral philosophy: social…