Ethical instruction in U.S. schools has had a circuitous history, but it may be having a resurgence. Various trends and surveys are reported for both America and the U.S.S.R. If moral education and ethics courses have healing power, then they should be supported and nurtured. (MLW)

Two interpretations are presented of the social dimensions of consumer education: the social/political interpretation and the personal/moral interpretation. Both contain a moral dimension involving questions of obligations and responsibilities to others. (MD)

Explores Gibbs's (1977, 1979) hypothesis that mature levels of moral reasoning are related to affirmative coping with human needs while conventional reasoning is related to abortive coping. In one study of 28 women and another of 70 adults, an interview questionnaire was used to assess ability to deal with Fromm's existential needs. (Author/CB)

R. S. Peters's paper, "Reason and Habit: The Paradox of Moral Education," is used as a medium through which to explore the paradox of education. An argument against the theory of just one developmental paradox of education is presented. Four paradoxes, consisting of the basic, stultification, conceptual change, and authority and autonomy are…

John Wilson's reasoning--that, since moral education involves educating the emotions and certain of these emotions characterize religion, religious education falls within the sphere of moral education--is false, because such reasoning would reduce religion to morality on the grounds that religious people express emotion. (IS)

Sealey has misunderstood Wilson's position on religious education. Religious understanding must be accountable to the same forms of thought and rational procedure as other forms of understanding, such as science and history, or there is no point in attempting to teach it. (IS)

Hudson fails to satisfactorily defend his claim that young people who are not initiated into religion will grow up to be less than human. Further, because we cannot test the validity of religious beliefs by the methods used for other disciplines, religion has no place in the educational system. (IS)

Bringing children to have respect for others is generally regarded as a central task of moral and social education. In this article one particular view of what "respect for others" means and how it is justified is examined critically and found to be unsatisfactory. (Editor)

Perhaps one major change our schools might begin to consider would entail a commitment at least to make explicit and examine forcefully and persistently what our nation's political and social ideals actually are, and to what degree we do or do not live up to those ideals. (Author)

Formalistic theories of moral development enunciated by L. Kohlberg and R. M. Hare are criticized for failing to recognize that normative principles are also necessary to the development of moral reasoning abilities. (GW)

The problems examined in this study were (1) age differences in grasp of psychological causality during middle childhood, (2) the exploration of possible mediating abilities of a physical-logical nature accounting for such age differences and (3) relations between cognition of psychological causality and intentionality in moral judgment.…

This character-education guide, for grades Pre-K through 12, presents field-generated, field-tested ideas for integrating character education with daily learning. The ideas are varied in design, scope, and developmental levels, and range from half-hour lessons to schoolwide events to year-long courses. Each unit (50 in all) is built on particular…

The current interest in values and social conventions stems mainly from an uneasy feeling about people whose behavior fails to live up to the social conventions that are upheld in society. Many people are calling for values and social conventions to be reasserted and education is expected to make an important contribution to this process.…

This paper shares the contribution of adolescent development research to service learning research with the goal of strengthening service learning. The paper discusses four areas of research on adolescent development and considers three implications for service learning program development and research. It discusses in detail the following…

Three surveys were conducted in twenty-three Midland primary schools during the spring terms of 1965, 1968 and 1971 in order to examine teacher attitudes to both religious and moral education. (Author/RK)