Expanding learner populations, more sensitive assessment instruments, and home-based technologies assures confrontation with moral value conflicts in the practice of educational technology. Critical questions which a developer must ask are (1) Where is the conflict in the development process? (2) What outcomes are desired? (3) Is the conflict…

Data from a sample of students showed that males' abortion attitudes are related primarily to their degree of conventionality; females' abortion attitudes are related to sex-role conventionality, the value of children in their life plans, the "right to life" issue, and sexual and general conventionality. (Author)

Five assumptions embedded in the notion of principled morality are interpreted philosophically and psychologically, emphasizing the dynamic nature of principled moral judgment. The assumptions concern the purpose of morality, the place of reason, the autonomy of the moral agent, the autonomy of moral discourse, and principles in morality.…

The study compared the responses of 48 retarded and 48 normal Ss (ages 11 to 14) in a series of eight hypothetical temptation to steal dilemmas. The results indicated that normal Ss resisted significantly more often than retarded Ss, and that the normal Ss generated significantly more legitimate acquisition responses than retarded Ss. (Author)

When the findings of sociobiology and ethology are properly interpreted, they are surprisingly compatible with commonsense ethical values, adding to our understanding of moral and ethical principles as an essential element of human social behavior. This paper provides a brief overview of the broader scientific interpretation to illustrate this…

An interpretation of female moral development is presented based on Kohlberg's stages of moral development and comparison is made between male and female development. (JMF)

The view that behavior therapists are ethical relativists is challenged. Behavior therapists hold no philosophical positions that preclude justification of ethical principles, but they must be "ethical skeptics." In response, it is argued that there is no basis for ethical skepticism or for this philosophical defense of behavior therapy.…

Speculates on why graduate library schools have not, in the persons of their professors, produced theoretical leadership in Library Science. The ideals of professional ethical standards are contrasted with present practice. (RAA)

Reviews factors involved in the rapid growth of medical ethics. Renal dialysis is discussed as an example of a problem in this applied field of ethics. (CS)

Discusses contributions that a philosopher of science can make to technology assessment, and hence ultimately to the guidance of technology-related public policy on two levels: that of conceptual and methodological analysis, and that of concrete applications. (CS)

Discusses the societal implications of advanced information technology, focusing on ethical questions and the personal responsibility of the information professional in designing information systems. (FM)

The role of the research administrator in assuring that ethical judgments are made is discussed. Included are some of the ethical questions faced in providing advice and judgment on policies, procedures, and issues that conflict with each other and that may represent very different value systems. (JMF)

Reviews the professionalization process in the school library media field; critically analyzes the field, drawing from the appropriate professional characteristics; and explores the field's ethos, especially the service orientation considered important for the field, which needs to be translated into ethical practice.

Adolescents are taught, through the students' confrontation with the meaning of the Holocaust, specific values that will prepare them for their initiation into a democratic society. The content and methodology of this program are delineated, and the relationship between the program's pedagogical strategy and realization of its goal is discussed.…

A factor analysis of the verbal appeals used by 70 mothers in the socialization of their young children supported the validity of characterizing the moral arguments of parents in terms of their content (type of behavior approved or disapproved) and the source of moral authority to which they appeal (parental authority, legality, justice, etc.).…