An analysis of four foundational issues in the study of moral development is provided. The four issues involve: (1) the definition of morality; (2) individual or cultural moral variation; (3) moral ontogeny; and (4) moral epistemology. The first section of the paper describes each issue. The second section is based on the argument that the four…

Discusses some problems encountered in doing cross-cultural research and reports on the approaches used to solve the difficulties. (HMV)

The present study investigated the power of the MMPI to make individual discriminations between psychiatric diagnostic groups (schizophrenic vs. nonschizophrenic) of blacks and whites when education and diagnosis are varied systematically. (Author/RK)

Speech delivered to the Northern Teachers Convention (January 6, 1969).

AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF LITERACY IN A REPRESENTATIVE VILLAGE OF RURAL GUATEMALA. THE COMMUNITY, EL JOCOTE, HAS A SUBSISTENCE ECONOMY DOMINATED BY CUSTOM AND TRADITION AND HAS ONLY MINIMAL CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD. MEMBERS OF FOUR FAMILIES FURNISHED DATA BASED ON LITERACY TESTS AND BOTH STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEWS. FINDINGS…

A three-day continuing education workshop on Hispano cultural and historical perspectives was developed for librarians and library administrators to help them understand the Hispano culture and to help them improve the library services for the Hispano community. Such library services should be based on the cultural, linguistic, and information…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 5. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; culture regions. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The major portion of the guide, which develops the unit, is laid out in three columns, one each for topics, activities, and materials. Other sections are in list form. The guide is mimeographed and staple-bound with a paper cover.…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade 6. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; civilization of Latin America and Africa. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The central part of the guide is divided into three subunits, each of which is laid out in three columns, one each for topics, activities, and materials. Other sections are in list form. The guide is mimeographed…

This study determined if there were any significant difference in attitudes toward self, towards others, and towards teaching between a group of new teachers who had been exposed to sensitivity training and a group who had not been exposed and also checked differences between pretest, posttest, and follow-up scores. The experimental group of 41…

This paper reports the application of factor analysis of a large data matrix involving some 800 variables in determining the principal dimension of teacher characteristics and employs the resulting scales in testing hypotheses about similarities and differences in teacher characteristics across subcultures identified by national/racial lineage,…

Appropriateness and reinforcement value of teacher language in middle and low socioeconomic school settings were investigated, using one hundred and four 5-minute tape recorded language samples from 15 teachers in seven schools. In the first analysis, a correlation of .64 (p<.01) between the words in this language corpus and those in the…

If we wish to foster constructive learning and growth for all of our students, we need to plan educational programs that will empower children, and educational programs that will help them understand and respect the cultural diversity that is an integral part of life in our nation and world today. (Author)

Evaluates the development of cooperative, competitive and individualistic goals in a setting of outcome interdependence among 434 dyads of elementary school children from five cultures. (MP)