Discusses the role of teaching and of teachers in determining and asserting our values and in the exploration of alternatives and their consequences. (TO)

Article reviews Kohlberg's stages of moral development as he traces moral reasoning from childhood to adulthood. (Author/RK)

Article investigates research studies on the relationships between different child rearing factors and the child's ability to adjust to social norms. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this investigation is to provide further data concerning the variables, age, intelligence and sex, that may affect moral judgment. (Author/RK)

The effects of sensory deprivation in humans is discussed as well as the need for developing a moral education curriculum designed to rear children in an affectional environment of positive reinforcements. (JB)

Study is an attempt to substantiate the hypothesis of an increasing prescriptive (or decreasing proscriptive) orientation in moral values between 1929 and 1958. (Authors)

It is suggested by this study that increases in moral judgment scores with age are related to increased generality of cognitive functioning. (Editor/CB)

These results suggest that previously published findings indicating that young children are unresponsive to issues of intentionality are methodological artifacts of the verbal assessment procedures employed. (Authors)

The purpose of this paper is to propose a process which will assist the student in formulating defensible moral decisions. (Author/RK)

The article explains the six tasks involved in practical reasoning and describes a research project that centered around teaching a six-week course in critical thinking to inmates at a medium security prison in an attempt to determine the feasibility of implementing a moral education program in correctional institutions. (SB)

Examines Rasmussen's Ego Identity Scale for internal consistency reliability and construct validity. Subjects included 114 primarily White and middle-class seventh- and twelfth-grade students. Implications for identity assessment are drawn. (Author/RH)

Judicial ethics, giving equal consideration to everyone's claims, are not a sufficient foundation for moral education. The key to moral growth, and thus to moral education, is not cognitive reversibility but a pattern of acts of indirect communication which produce transforming images and vision. Religious education's contribution is discussed.…

This study tried to systematically encourage the structure of moral judgment of adults toward change. The moral stage of subjects was measured before and after the treatment, a course in human sexuality. Results indicate that moral judgment can change during adulthood. (AM)

Influencing moral development should be an integral part of planned political education. The elements of Kohlberg's moral development theory and the relationships between moral judgments and political consciousness are discussed. General pedagogical-didactic principles through which a social studies course can be patterned on cognitive…

Ethics should take its place beside English, history, and science as a formal subject in all schools. Various approaches to moral education theory and methodology are described. (RM)