Investigates levels of moral reasoning among sex offenders court-ordered into a community-based treatment program. Comparison of the study sample to national normative data indicated that this sample of sex offenders was employing a level of moral reasoning two standard deviations lower than adults in general. Potential implications of the…

Summarizes some ethical roots of organizational behavior, clarifies the meaning of responsibility, discusses the importance of motives underlying the assumption of responsibility as a moral action, analyzes four basic behavior theories, and advances a theory of bounded organizational responsibility. Includes 20 references. (MLH)

Argues that the study of literature can help address the value dimensions of health communication. Maintains that literature provides a rich emotional context for characters' actions and interactions, which helps to direct readers' attention to the value dimensions of the situation at hand. (SR)

Examines reasons for the increasing demand for ethical behavior in organizations. Highlights include the organization, wholeness, and shared values; values, morals, organizational ethics, and value-based leadership; and ethical accounting, based on the Ethical Accounting Statement developed in Denmark. (LRW)

Three articles explore character education from different perspectives: "Teaching Students to See Beyond Themselves" (Lasley, Biddle); "An Effective Character Education Model for a Diverse Student Population" (Cline, Necochea); and "Teaching as Modeling: The Impact of Teacher Behaviors upon Student Character…

Multicultural education should not be used for politically motivated purposes such as combating racism, developing cultural identity, or ending poverty and inequality. It should embody universal humanity, morality, and freedom, uniting people but maintaining their uniqueness and individuality. (SK)

Argues that concern purely with consequences is an inadequate basis for an ethical theory. Suggests that claims based on rights or standards other than the promotion of the greatest happiness be used to guide decisions. Insists that conflict among rights in no way denies their existence or their essence in determinations of distributive justice.…

Today's "just say no" approach to moral education is as simplistic as the values clarification emphasis of the 1960s and 1970s. One solution is to combine the best approaches of past decades. The Comprehensive Values Education model is progressive and all-embracing in content, methodology, and application throughout school and community.…

Analyzes some of the ethical issues relating to the illegal use of computer software and presents empirical evidence suggesting the nature and scope of the problem. Types of software are explained, including freeware and shareware; the current ethical and legal situation is described; a moral analysis is discussed; problems of rationalization are…

Asks theater educators to articulate and defend a moral position regarding the overall direction of society. Asks that teachers, like great theater, foretell a direction that will lead to a better world. (SR)

Reports the results of administering the Crissman test of moral values to 169 Ohio State University students in 1988, and discusses changes as measured over the last 60 years using the same test. Finds college youth of the 1980s the least morally severe generation of recent times. (DM)

Morality should be taught in public schools. Ethics, the effort to apply simple moral rules, is too complex to teach to secondary school students. Very few adolescents can apply a conduct code requiring them to weigh refined issues, apply prudence, and display considerable self-control. Most lack the necessary maturity. Includes five references.…

Discusses ways that an understanding of Elizabethan religious beliefs and views of the connection between the mind and body can help the director of a Shakespearean play understand the internal motivation of the characters as revealed by Shakespeare's language. (SR)

Uses examples of organizational distortions of information to expand understanding of individual moral responses and responsibilities in light of Hannah Arendt's notion of the banality of evil. Explores dimensions of the objective/subjective and systemic/reductionist continua. (SK)

Investigates the communicative treatment of secrets, presenting examples from recorded communicative interactions in a wide range of social milieus and settings in which the participants revealed knowledge of secrets, tried to dig out old secrets without appearing to be doing so, and occasionally, appeared to be hiding some items of knowledge from…