Catholic schoolteachers face the pedagogical dilemma between remaining faithful to the doctrinal requirements of Catholic Church teaching while also respecting their professional responsibility to promote autonomous, critical thinking and consider the pastoral needs of their students. Although in practice many Catholic educators achieve a…

With increasing numbers of single-parent and two-career families, more parents and other community members lack the time to instill in children the values and ethics they have traditionally provided. This document addresses the challenges faced by educators as they teach these values, and it reports on successful approaches in the field, both on…

This study aimed to investigate the relation between a test of formal operations reasoning and strength at Kohlberg's various types of moral development, using correlational techniques. (Author/RK)

An expert is defined here as one who predicts and explains better than the layman in a particular domain on the basis of his specialized underlying knowledge of it. This analysis is then applied to the domain of morality. (Editor)

Investigates the effects of father absence and perceived maternal behaviors on the moral behavior, judgment, and affect of preadolescent boys. Also tests for differences between sons of divorcees and widows and between boys who were at different ages at the onset of father absence. (CW)

The author defended the claim that the moral educator must be a moral authority against subjectivists who deny the existence of moral authority. (Editor/RK)

The place of the encounter group within the framework of humanistic psychology is examined and an assessment of the moral significance of the humanistic psychology movement and the encounter group technique is attempted. (Editor)

Explored Rokeach's theory that dogmatism develops within the family. Subjects were college students and their parents who took the 40-item Dogmatism Scale. Results indicated that family experiences are one source of children's dogmatism but not the only source. (SDH)

A more precise picture of the characteristics of the moral development of children in the Soviet Union is offered in a scheme of classification of development according to age. (Author/KM)

An outline of Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of cognitive moral development prefaces an application of the teaching plan developed by the Social Studies Curriculum Center at Carnegie-Mellon University for leading discussions of moral dilemmas. (JH)

The affective experiences of empathy, shame, and guilt have been identified as those most relevant to the development of moral motivation and moral behavior. It has been postulated that these cognitive/affective experiences serve to motivate moral and altruistic social behavior, while inhibiting the expression of aggressive, antisocial impulses.…

Jealousy may be perceived as either good or bad depending upon the moral maturity of the individual. To investigate this conclusion, a study was conducted testing two hypothesis: a positive relationship exists between conventional moral reasoning (reference to norms and laws) and the endorsement and level of jealousy; and a negative relationship…

The entire thrust of the Jewish Rabbinic Tradition is to accept the reality of development. Behavior reflects values, and values come from the study of the Torah. (Author)

The purpose of this study is to test the applicability of a cognitive concept elaboration procedure in clarifying value concepts as a means of evaluating a practical method and also of providing some empirical support for the theoretical construct. (Author)

This paper defines the concept of the dialectic and places it within the context of a well-defined methodology, i.e. that of organicism, which contrasts markedly with the logical empiricism of much contemporary psychology. The paper then points out the relevance of a dialectical perspective for developmental psychology. (Author/CS)