Suggests that educators look to the work of John Dewey to explore how to communicate ethical principles, build a strong curriculum, and regain respect for education. (JM)

Examined the relationship between child-rearing practices and the moral character structure of 144 male and female college students. (CM)

Provides a report on an engineer/philosopher team project to study codes of ethics of engineering societies and propose a single code of ethics. (BB)

Ethical behavior in business must be rooted in the larger value system of society as a whole. (Editor)

Discusses implications of distributive justice in the scientists' assumption of responsibility for the quality of life of future generations. Stresses that although scientists are obligated to the future, their efforts to improve the future quality of life must not become an excuse for neglecting their responsibility to people in the present. (CS)

Religion in America has always existed as a method for achieving a desired moral purpose. Religion existing for its own sake as glorification of God through utilization of God-given senses, can, like art, lead to new perceptions of self and the world which cannot be born by being consciously created. (RW)

The narrowing of ethical perspectives in medicine and the subsequent truncation of the resources for and the scope of accountability among physicians are the concerns of this essay by the coordinator of a human values program at the University of North Carolina. (LBH)

Discusses Herbert York's book "The Advisors/Oppenheimer, Teller & The Superbomb," which is an account of the decisions involved in making the American hydrogen bomb. (Author/IRT)

Curriculum development is a moral enterprise because it is concerned not so much with what is as with what ought to be. (Author)

Two studies used a modification of the weakly interpretive scoring method of Langford and D'Cruz to examine judicial and legislative reasoning. Findings were in accord with modified versions of Piaget's and Kohlberg's views and contradicted Gibbs' theory. There were three stages of legislative reasoning between 7 and 21 years: heteronomy or…

Examined how student teachers constructed their teacher identities by using autobiographical stories. Analysis of 35 student teacher essays shows that autobiographical studies are a powerful tool in making the moral dimensions of teachers' identities visible. (SLD)

Discusses nihilism as a characteristic of contemporary discourse regarding morality and moral education. Examines this discourse in light of Emmanuel Levinas' account of the primacy of ethics: absolute responsibility in the face of the other, of the asymmetry of relations to each other. (CAJ)

Although some argue that randomization of treatments or interventions violates accepted norms of conduct of social science research, this article makes the case that there is a moral imperative for the conduct of randomized experiments in crime and justice studies. (SLD)

The persistence and pervasiveness of two forms of child sexual abuse in particular, pornography and prostitution, undoubtedly lie in the perpetuation of societal norms that unwittingly support such tragic behaviors. Argues that the overall problem of child sexual abuse must be reconceptualized, and in-depth, long-term investigations of both child…

Compares narrative approaches to Kohlberg's theory of moral development along five dimensions: values relevance, legitimacy, universality, rationality, and commensurability. Argues that, contrary to Kohlberg's theory, narrative approaches may lead to contradiction in epistemology, nihilism in moral choices, and opportunism in relationships.…