Kohlberg's findings that morality is a developmental process and that moral growth occurs in proportion to the individual's participating in moral problem solving make it necessary for the educator to understand the child's level of moral growth and to help facilitate this growth. Suggests some ways to aid in this growth. (Author/RK)

Investigates the gap between human impulse and moral action and the thesis of this research is that within that gap there is an intervening variable of the human will which must be reckoned with before moral education can result in social improvements. (Author/RK)

The author offers an argument for organized inculcation of moral values into students. (IRT)

Examines the concept of strategic ambiguity in communication, and addresses the ethics of strategic ambiguity from an intrapersonal perspective that considers the congruity of communicators' espoused-ethics, ethics-in-use, and behavior, where ethical judgements are based on the congruity between espoused-ethics and actual behavior. Poses questions…

This study of 20 children (ages 6-9) with autism found that the children were able to make a distinction between moral and conventional transgressions in their judgments, and that their level of ability on false belief tasks was not associated with the tendency to distinguish moral and conventional transgressions. (CR)

Describes a comprehensive, four-year integrated character development program at the Naval Academy. Highlights the concept of Integrity Development Seminars. (JRH)

Reviews a case of censorship of the film "1900" and suggests that teachers and scholars are not prepared to defend the viewing of legitimate and appropriate films against censorship campaigns. Examines the meaning of "community standards" and the relationship to state or national standards. (TB)

Ethics are often taught in higher education. but research shows that family environment and early childhood are most influential in developing ethical behavior. The importance of ethics to work and family life suggests that ethical training should not be limited to vocational/business courses and it should start early. (SK)

The ethics of the influential psychologist and ethicist Lawrence Kohlberg are analyzed from a communitarian perspective. Kohlberg's conception of morality is described as not as formal and universal as claimed, and it is suggested that it is, in fact, a monological ethic. (SLD)

Undergraduate (n=996) and graduate (n=294) business students in Hong Kong and China completed measures of moral development and conflict handling styles. A significant association between moral development stage and integrating style was found. Despite common Chinese cultural heritage, Hong Kong students had significantly lower moral development…

Considers who should be responsible for the content of children's books, focusing on the parts that writers, parents, and society should take in this responsibility. Concludes that all parties must try to influence children through education, but that children's literature should not be a weapon for promoting any one version of reality. (MM)

School executives move beyond the bounds of ethical behavior when they exercise favoritism or act unethically to avoid trouble. Because public agencies are empowered by a political system driven by influence and power, confusion and uncertainty often arise. Sidebars advise how to handle hypothetical situations and clarify ethics policies. (MLH)

Asks reader to challenge "scientism" view of aggression and violence as inevitable outcomes of human interaction and to oppose information and understanding that place limits on moral and ethical imagination. Suggests that rational arguments are needed without the exercise of mere "rationality" that limits one's reasoning, caring, and moral…

This article describes an approach to examining an expository work which explores and reveals the work's structure of thought by examining it from three perspectives: interpretation, method and principle. This approach is applied to the works of Durkheim and Rousseau. (IAH)