Presents a dialogue between Socrates and his Athenian admirers regarding the importance of educating youth for responsible citizenship. The manuscript was recently discovered by archivists of the Greek government and is assumed to be a record of a dialogue that occurred immediately after Socrates had been poisoned for his role in corrupting the…

Findings indicate that advanced moral judgment and potentially radical political beliefs came together in mid-adolescence. (Author/AM)

Reviews and comments upon educational and philosophical literature relevant to morals in advanced capitalist society. Concludes that changing attitudes are accompanying social change and that people are becoming increasingly committed to a new ethical order. Implications for values education are unclear. (Author/DB)

Suggests that a reexamination of the studies and research of developmental psychologists Kohlberg and Perry is needed in any examination of values education. Parallels and contrasts two theorists, and discusses the use of their schemes in studies of moral development in young adults and the phenomenon of moral regression. (Author/SMR)

The effects of rewards and expectations of future rewards on sharing were examined with 180 Israeli boys at three age levels (ages 6-7, 9-10, and 12-13). A relation between moral judgment and behavior was found. (BRT)

Studied the establishment of the reliability of an instrument for assessing developmental stages and the relation between reliability and sequentiality of the stages. (GO)

Assignment of roles in a role play opposite the values held by students induces students to shift their values in the direction of the roles they play and away from the value position they previously held. This technique may be useful in leading students to higher stages of moral development. (For journal availability see SO 504 871.) (AV)

Representative samples of curriculum development in social studies are presented based on a model designed to involve students actively in both the historical and dilemma-solving processes. (MJB)

Black and White college students (N=232) were given either the Defining Issues Test (DIT) or a revised DIT in which the protagonists were Black. Racial manipulation did not appear to affect the emotional distance of White subjects from the dilemmas; emotional responses of Black participants were more intense and stressful when the dilemma…

Reviews 31 doctoral dissertations completed between 1986 and 1987 which deal with values and morality. Among the titles are "Prosocial Moral Reasoning of Gifted and Non-gifted Elementary Students"; "Plato's Moral Psychology"; and "The Nature and Value of Moral Integrity." (GEA)

Addresses the design and outcomes of Foundations of Leadership Development, a new leadership development program at Brigham Young University. Describes the program from a broad-based, theoretical point of view using ecological and developmental theory and explains how a student leadership class can have a significant impact on the ethical…

The cases of three individuals charged with corrupting the young are considered in a discussion of the teacher's role in the moral education of youth. Focus is on Socrates, a Los Angeles teacher fired because of membership in a sexually-oriented club, and a Nazi war criminal. (MSE)

Discusses the Just Community Approach to corrections that, partly through the use of participatory democracy, strives to make the two cultures into a single community in which staff act as leaders and advocates for justice and the welfare of the community, rather than as authoritative managers of the correctional institution. (CT)

Schools should not teach values directly, but education can never be value-free. Schools can best promote moral responsibility by treating all students fairly, providing good role models, using discipline to help students, balancing competition with cooperation, and providing opportunities to students for responsible and altruistic behavior. (TE)

Tells how undergraduate student volunteers tested children, ages 3 to 10 years old, to reveal their development in language, conservation of volume and weight, and moral judgment. These videotaped sessions were then used in class to illustrate important concepts. (JDH)