If ways are to be found to integrate doctrine, practice, and theory in the law school curriculum, a new perspective of legal education is needed. One useful approach builds on work on moral development based on two distinctive modes of thinking about moral issues. (MSE)

Introduces a three-dimensional framework for examining moral development interventions consisting of the target of intervention, type of intervention, and intervention approach. Provides examples of specific strategies for each category included in the framework. (Author/KS)

Argues that successful education must include teaching children to care. Outlines how a caring capacity can be developed and incorporated into educational methodology through action oriented projects. (BSR)

Through a feminist perspective of caring, this article examines the differences between masculine and feminine views on good and evil. Argues that analysis and articulation of the feminine view may contribute significantly to an understanding of moral issues and a reformulation of educational practices. (Author/DH)

Nisan responds to Turiel, Nucci, and Smetana's (1988) critique by stating that it merely serves to emphasize the difficulty involved in distinguishing between the moral and the conventional without reference to the cultural meaning of the act. (PCB)

Reports a study designed to assess whether students coming from a conservative Catholic background move toward liberal values under the influence of a college and whether they move back toward traditional Catholic values at the end of their four-year degree. Concludes that early adolescence values formation is more crucial than college…

The goals of applied ethics courses are examined in relation to the stimuli for initiating such courses, the settings in which they are offered, and the nature of moral agency and development. A typology of possible goals is offered, and current testing methods are discussed. (Author/MLW)

This monograph examines the assessment of moral development over the past half century. Recent renewed interest in the field has led to the creation of new techniques and to the refinement of existing methods. Unsolved problems in theory and in technical development provide challenges for researchers in the future. (LMO)

In support of moral education, the authors propose that teaching morality to criminals is a necessary and economic facet of correctional education, especially to combat crime in general and recidivism specifically. The authors view the criminal's inability to make rational, moral judgments as a major cause of crime. (Author/CT)

Defines rationality and morality and contends that learning to be moral must be based on more than value-neutral approaches which stress process over content. Argues that instruction in moral principles need not be simple bald exposition, but must include proofs, evidences, and arguments, making it nondogmatic and fully compatible with the…

Moral development theory has much to offer in the classroom and other informed discussions, but the moral development approach to education should depart from the Kohlberg model and examine the actual role of rules and principles in human conduct and recognize the impact of economic and psychological motivation in the process of moral choice. (MSE)

Examined is whether a liberal state can concede parents the right to bring up their children in a given religion and whether a liberal parent (one committed to a range of liberal values) can consistently and in good conscience claim such a right. (RM)

Offers eight lessons to be learned from school sports activities that the author considers more important than winning, including how to win and lose, compete, cooperate, participate, work toward a goal, develop self-discipline, sacrifice, and develop new skills. (JBM)

Modern education is examined in the light of John Dewey's theory that moral education is a process of involving singular human beings, living consciously in association with one another, in thinking purposively and intelligently about subject-matter provided by their common, intertwined lives. (JD)

The author devised a 10-item questionnaire to examine what type of values, if any, are taught in residence halls by professional and paraprofessional staff. (Author)