Stresses that values and moral education can be compatible with content-oriented social studies instruction. Explains how teachers of junior and senior high school students can assist students to use problem-solving and decision-making processes to make rational decisions, clarify values, and understand content. (Author/DB)

Discusses research which focuses on the types of experience that foster the internalization of moral norms in an individual's development. Considers the roles of parents, peers, and the mass media, as well as cognitive development and arousal of affects such as empathy and guilt. (Author/GC)

People accept the general idea that there should be instruction in the schools that deals with morals and moral behavior. A model for moral instruction is presented to stimulate moral education activities. (Author)

Pairs of elementary school children at different concept development levels were given problems to discuss, in order to examine the prediction, derived from the equilibration model, that when two children holding different beliefs must arrive at a consenus, the child possessing the higher level of cognitive development will prevail over the child…

Suggests an approach to understanding moral functioning incorporating developments in biological and cognitive theory. (Author/MP)

In this excerpt from his forward to "Readings in Moral Education," Dr. Kohlberg asserts that cognitive-developmental moral education goes back to Socrates, but that the demand for it today stems from Watergate and My Lai--a demand that the United States return to its original principles of justice. (SJL)

The development of Scarborough's Values Education Project is described. The advantages and disadvantages of three reflective teaching methods: values clarification, Kohlberg's cognitive-moral development, and Allen's problem-solving approach, are outlined, and Scarborough's synthesis is discussed. (SJL)

Alcohol consumption was not found to affect the stage of moral reasoning of the subjects, but an inverse relationship was found between the amount of alcohol consumed and the subjects' discrimination of relevant from irrelevant information in their moral reasoning. (BH)

Describes an experiment in classroom moral education by high school social studies teachers and reports its results. (Author)

The author: (1) pinpoints the central core of values in education (i.e. normative reasoning); (2) outlines the special opportunities counselors have for engaging in values education; (3) points to inadequacies in several popular theories; and (4) describes a new program at the University of British Columbia in values education. (Author)

Discussion of responsibility, professional morality, and moral reasoning focuses on the potential that computer conferencing activities have for providing opportunities for moral discourse and expanding prospective teachers' understanding of their professional responsibilities. The form and the content of the discussions have the potential to…

Assessed the relationship between moral reasoning, moral affect, social problem solving skills, and social preferences in preschool children. Found that girls who scored highest for relational aggression also rated highest for moral maturity, suggesting an evolutionary theory in which effective resource controllers would be simultaneously…

Argues that Stephen Greenspan's comment is incoherent and that Mal Leichester and Pam Cooke's position has unacceptable practical consequences. Cautions that their positions have disquieting implications for the practice of treating mental retardation as an exempting condition; and the practice of giving them special welfare rights loses their…