If education can be decentralized and parents and children given more choices in education, then efficient instruction and sound moral atmosphere can be restored to our public schools. (Author)

Young children's use of motives and outcomes as criteria for moral judgments was measured under three modes of story presentation and several different combinations of positive and negative motives and outcomes. Recall for the critical story information was also assessed. (Author/RH)

It is argued in this article that the need to find something certain to which to devote oneself is strongest among youth who are in a state of identity diffusion, and that the search for certainty in such a state is frequently for the genuine, the pure, and the enduring. (Author)

Examines the relationship between 35 preschoolers' moral reasoning about altruistic moral conflicts and their sharing, helping, and comforting in a naturalistic environment. (JMB)

This article criticizes A. W. Cragg's hidden values arguments and presses for explicit values education in the schools. (MM)

Investigates levels of moral reasoning among sex offenders court-ordered into a community-based treatment program. Comparison of the study sample to national normative data indicated that this sample of sex offenders was employing a level of moral reasoning two standard deviations lower than adults in general. Potential implications of the…

Examined negative consequences and their influence on ethical decisions by counselors at various stages of ethical development in 60 members of the American Psychological Association and the American Association for Counseling and Development. Showed empathy to be related to higher levels of ethical orientation. (Author/ABL)

Asserts that students must learn to transcend or transform images of violence in their writing. Suggests that students can use "moral imagination" to generate non-violent alternatives in their writing. (MM)

Outlines relationship between crises that create stress in one's life and periods of instability in moral development. Suggests that stressful issues are more difficult to resolve during periods of developmental instability and that, when problems are most stressful, people often experience impact of stress physiologically. Reconstructs stress and…

Evaluated Project CORE (Convicted Offender Re-entry Effort), a boot camp program undertaken by the Travis County (Texas) Sheriff's Department. Though it had been anticipated that a boot camp program, with strong emphasis on responsibility and moral development, would yield increasing maturation in moral judgment, no significant increases were…

Clinical cheating is one of the most devastating ways students can breach moral principles and its prevention should be a priority for nurse educators. Educators can promote the professional integrity of students by integrating moral development into all curricular efforts. (JOW)

Discusses the impact of John Ruskin on the early development of Mahatma Gandhi's thought and outlines Gandhi's basic education scheme. (JOW)

Explains how Piaget's theory illuminates children's cognitive construction of morality. Discusses ways to develop moral judgment by teaching reciprocity and mutual respect. (SK)

Applies Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development to Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's Newbery Award-winning novel "Shiloh" to reveal a character advanced in moral reasoning. (RS)