After reading of an automobile accident in which the driver and/or bystanders either suffered or did not suffer, subjects rated the driver's responsibility for the accident and sentenced him to a jail term. The purpose of this experiment was to contrast three theoretical models: defensive attribution, moral salience, and equity. (Author)

Investigates whether apostate students would be more likely than religious believers to express radical ideology in an open ended, free response questionnaire context. (Author/DEP)

It was hypothesized that rurality would be positively related to a traditional normative order represented by moral reality. In general, as rurality declined, the emphasis on the effect of an improper act declined, and the importance of the actor's motives increased. (Author)

Analyzes model approaches to early childhood education and teacher education in terms of their ideological and value bases. (ED)

This article examines how an individual's evaluation of moral judgments are influenced by the extent to which they are consistent with his own beliefs, as well as by the quality of their supportive reasoning. (DE)

You can deal with moral and ethical questions in your classroom - these guidelines will help. (Editor)

Methods of persuasion are suggested to assure the transformation of children from an object of persuasion and a consumer of ideological information into the subject of ideological and moral persuasion who actively applies his convictions in his life. (Author/KM)

"In this paper we will discuss a number of selected theoretical models with reference to their basic philosophical tenets in the hope that teachers may acheive a better closeness of fit between their own concerns for teaching about values and the recommendations of the current literature on the subject." (Author)

This document is a compilation of materials from a presentation on ethical decision making. These components are included: (1) four sample moral dilemmas; (2) graphs of Kohlberg's six stages of moral growth; (3) graphs of Gilligan's Theory of Moral Judgments; (4) graphs of Kitchner's Theory of Ethical Principles; (5) a discussion of the four…

Kohlberg's developmental theory of moral reasoning hypothesizes that the socially unacceptable moral behavior of many juvenile delinquents is related to immature moral reasoning. A sizeable minority of delinquents, however, has been shown to reason at age-appropriate levels. This study examined issues related to those juvenile delinquents who were…

In these workshop materials, Perry's scheme of intellectual and ethical development is graphically portrayed. This is followed by: (1) an epistemological overview of positions two to five of the Perry scheme (what to learn, how to learn, how to think, and how to judge in context); (2) an overview of Perry scheme instrumentation; (3) Perry rating…

A study determined what beginning journalists and news reporting students have learned is acceptable to quote, verbatim, in a news story, and where they learned about these guidelines. Results of a questionnaire given to journalism students indicated that most would change direct quotes by adjusting blasphemies, correcting faulty grammar, cleaning…

To understand better the ethical inclinations of public relations students, a study examined students' self-reported ethical beliefs and behaviors regarding their college work. In two mid-Atlantic state universities, a questionnaire was administered to communication classes for college juniors and seniors during the winter term 1988, yielding 258…

According to Gilligan (1982) there are two different orientations for describing moral development: a justice orientation characteristic of males, and a care orientation characteristic of females. Gilligan claims that the care orientation is confounded with the justice orientation in Kohlberg's (1983) conceptualization of Stage 3: mutual…

This document reports on two studies that used a novel approach to categorize justifications for moral judgments made by Australian subjects from 7 to 15 and from 7 to 21 years of age. The coding categories consisted of levels of abstraction and reflection. Level of abstraction was determined by the reference group used in justifications. Levels…