This paper analyzes the ethically important moments that helped build, then break, and then negotiate the relationship between researchers and schools during an ethnographic-type study conducted by the team of researchers from a prominent private university. I posit that the researchers' unskilled approach culminated in producing written…

Employing Searle's views, I begin by arguing that students of Mathematics behave similarly to machines that manage symbols using a set of rules. I then consider two types of Mathematics, which I call "Cognitive Mathematics" and "Technical Mathematics" respectively. The former type relates to concepts and meanings, logic and sense, whilst the…

The author discusses validation hierarchies grounded in the tradition of quantitative research that generally consists of the criteria of validity, reliability and objectivity and compares this with similar criteria developed by the qualitative tradition, described as trustworthiness, dependability and confirmability. Although these quantitative…

As teacher-facilitators, Joseph M. Shosh and Jennifer A. Wescoe emphasize the educational value of theater. To promote student leadership of a production, students audition for roles on and off stage and contribute to the technical aspects of the production through "crew days," from which they build community and develop a sense of respect for the…

The library and information science field is currently confronted with difficult decisions about how best to allocate acquisition expenditures among increasingly expensive journals. This article measures the return-on-investment of serial expenditures through the use of citation analysis, which is a widely used approach to ascertaining journal…

The developmental sequence of preschool children's moral judgments, and their emphasis on intentions versus property damage was investigated. Eight moral judgment stories with drawings were read to twelve 3 1/2- and twelve 4 1/2-year-old children (mean ages = 46.6 and 54.0 months, respectively). The stories included either positive or negative…

A theory of the assignment of moral responsibility and punishment for harm was tested with 5- to 11-year-old children. Results indicated sophisticated use of moral concepts from 5 years. Developmental trends suggested increasing sensitivity to these concepts, greater tolerance for harm doing, and more emphasis on restitution than punishment.…

The value-laden use of the language of problems and solutions is discussed, focusing on problem and solution, solution as problem, and values as determinants of problems and solutions. (BL)

Ways in which the ethics of value judgment are inherent in sociological research are examined. Also, the course of action that a researcher should consider when doing or talking ethics in relation to the society in which he or she expects to undertake research is discussed. (Author/RM)

Unless conjoined with certain desires, reason cannot move an agent to act. The article shows the conditions under which reasons for deciding on an action become reasons for action, explains the necessity of desire for possessing reasons, and explains a schema to analyze certain character traits pertinent to moral education. (SB)

Argues that teachers of literature should bring into the open for careful scrutiny the implied moral attitudes and social values in the literature they present. (HOD)

Grades are value judgments. They are not essential for learning, and they are motivating only as an exchange medium in a system that requires them. They are not a necessary method of assessment or measurement. Grading engenders conflicts between objectivity and the humanity of teaching. (SK)

Discusses publishing in the field of education technology. Topics include publishing as a tool for faculty evaluation; perceptions about publishing; academic versus nonacademic publications; quality versus quantity of scholarly work; refereed status; and journal rankings by academic prestige, general reading, and classroom use. (LRW)

Undergraduate (n=996) and graduate (n=294) business students in Hong Kong and China completed measures of moral development and conflict handling styles. A significant association between moral development stage and integrating style was found. Despite common Chinese cultural heritage, Hong Kong students had significantly lower moral development…

Notes that the expression of liking has the potential to generate negative and positive outcomes. Outlines an experiment which extends a common principle of attribution-making, the self-serving bias, to predict and explain participants' and nonparticipants' attributions for a confederate's nonverbal expressions of liking or disliking. (PM)