A case exists for there being a moral dimension to prison education and a case against moral education programs in prison. The argument is made that prisoners are one part of a large group of citizens who suffer from uneven development in the cognitive and moral realms due to biographical and structural factors. (Author/CT)

Replicates and extends to older adolescents previous findings of factorial independence between IQ and daydreaming in both gifted and average children and young adolescents. Also aims to relate to the development of moral reasoning ability research findings of a decline in guilt and fear-of-failure daydreams among children, adolescents, and…

Correctional rehabilitation can be enhanced by affective education dealing with self-concept and moral development. Strong affective education programs can be designed using the ideas of Kohlberg and Freire in group discussions. (Author/SK)

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)

This group of papers on Carol Gilligan's study of psychological theory, "In a Different Voice," includes: "Some Cautionary Words for Historians" (Linda K. Kerber); "How Different Is the 'Different Voice?'" (Catherine G. Greeno and Eleanor F. Maccoby); "A Methodological Critique" (Zella Luria); "The…

Twenty-five learning disabled adolescents were administered Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview. Compared to the average achieving adolescents, LD Ss showed less evidence of ability to view moral dilemmas from a community or societal perspective. LD Ss also exhibited a substantial amount of reasoning from an egocentric perspective focusing on…

Discusses various aspects of ethics in business: recent trends in business, definitions of ethics, ways of applying the Golden Rule, management's role, educating people to think about ethics differently, beyond ethics training, making standards clear and sticking to them, and the belief that people want to do the right thing. (CT)

Examines the issue of developmental consistencies between and within levels of moral reasoning, altruism, and perspective coordination. The relative contributions of perspective coordination and moral reasoning to altruistic behavior were examined in fifth grade. (Author/RH)

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)

Considers American programs, curriculum materials and teacher guides which might be of interest to British readers in teaching moral education. (Author/RK)

Cardinal Roy, President of the Pontifical Commission for International Justice and Peace, maintains that economic objectives for social development fail to consider the problems of the new era and result in an improper distribution of the benefits of development. He hopes that Christians will express their brotherhood by remedying social…

Presents a review of the literature relating to the cognitive developmental approach to morality and addresses itself to several questions raised by moral development research. (RP)