Discusses how changing family structures make values education and the development of strong parent-school partnerships imperative. Examines the teacher education program at New York's Bank Street College of Education and its efforts to create a school environment honoring human dignity and values education intended to provide a model for…

Explores the difficulties of combining aesthetic experience and educational settings. Postulates this is due to the nature of aesthetic experience as well as the art object itself. Argues that art metaphorically discusses not what is, but what develops and implies a relativistic, adaptive, temporal concept of truth. (CH)

Asked 35 middle-class high school seniors to relate their jobs, or decisions not to work, to social context of employment. Findings suggest that negative stereotype of high school student-worker is not justified. Part-time work appeared to uphold variety of interpretations of work ethic within framework of normative middle-class values. (Author/NB)

Reviewed is an integrated approach to teaching place-value concepts. A semi-integrated approach is proposed which may provide a more effective implementation of the technique. (CW)

Describes the present impossibility of receiving a liberal education in the United States, except by chance. Calls upon Catholic institutions of higher education to begin rectifying this problem. Cites the work of Allan Bloom, Richard Neuhaus, Aristotle, and Thomas Jefferson. (CH)

Wayland wrote what is arguably the most influential nineteenth-century moral philosophy text. This article examines the Calvinist tradition, from which Wayland diverged; explores his views as they relate to the home and school; and describes his impact on the formation of the middle class of his day. (IAH)

Describes dancer Katherine Dunham's philosophical system and her application of the "Dunham technique" in the Children's Workshop of the Katherine Dunham Museum in East St. Louis (Illinois). Contends that Dunham incorporates rites of passage to transform the lives of participants through intense involvement in art as a way of life. (AF)

Responses from six engineering professors to a previous article about teaching engineering ethics are presented. Programs at several schools are described. The need to teach ethics to engineering students is reinforced. (CW)

Administered questionnaire with 46 occupations and tasks to over 1,300 elementary and secondary students, asking whether each item should best be performed by man, woman, or either; the number of "either" choices defined "liberality." Found that females were more liberal than males in their perceptions of gender-role division; younger students…

A study using simulated doctor-patient interactions found that social work students inappropriately attributed both positive and negative characteristics to patients, apparently on the basis of sociocultural stereotypes. It is suggested that social work educators must address values and stereotyping in clinical assessment training. (MSE)

Discussion of the use of electronic conferencing to form a discourse community focuses on a case study of student consultants working in a microcomputer lab supporting writing courses at Michigan Technological University. The formulation of a group identity, as well as group values, goals, and expectations are discussed. (16 references) (LRW)

Investigates Israeli students' comprehension and opinions of democracy. Explores the extent to which their level of comprehension is related to maturation, socioeconomic background, political partisanship, and schooling. Results indicate that most have a positive opinion of democracy but have trouble characterizing it and applying democratic…

Discusses the post-presidential writings of Richard Nixon. Finds an overarching concern for the "will," which permitted Nixon to transform the standards of higher moral principle into the politics of expediency. Views Nixon's writings as a symptom of the ailing health of public morality in liberal society. (SR)

Suggests an approach to citizenship education which enhances the student's ability to make responsible decisions. Emphasizes that citizenship concepts such as fairness begin to develop early in a child's life and that citizenship education is inevitably bound up with value judgments. Gives an example of an activity which fosters responsible…

Minority issues in higher education reflect a range in thinking from emphasis on external support to a preference for individual responsibility. The fundamental concern is achievement. Access is intended as only a beginning with the intended result empowerment through achievement. (MLW)