A student during McLuhan's early days of teaching at Saint Louis University analyzes the qualities that made him a superb and influential teacher. Recalls that his teaching of literature conveyed a sense of its moral and social relevance and the historicity of the present. (PD)

Proposes that in the quest for truth, teachers and students concern themselves with the prevalence of information overload, euphemisms, and doublespeak. (JL)

A test instrument for assessing the preferences medical students show for six value categories (aesthetic, economic, political, religious, social, and theoretical) was developed using a case-study approach. Validation was by comparison of medical ethics and general values in nonmedical students. Further research on the social values category is…

Discusses educational issues affected by the conservative right, including church-state separation, school prayer, censorship, creationism, moral education, and humanism. Maintains that a politically powerful religious right threatens the separation of church and state. (Author/JM)

An evaluation of female roles as portrayed by TV commercials (1977) suggests a decline in the role of mother as moral socializer, a rise in self-indulgent consumer behavior in children and exaggerated generational and sex-role differentiation. (JCD)

Contains a French folk tale and discussion questions that give elementary level students the opportunity to discuss cheating and human behavior. Children read about three clever boys who outwit an unscrupulous innkeeper. They discuss the behavior of the protagonists and argue for or against the brothers' trick. (AM)

Maintains that science, technology, and society are inseparable. Emphasizes that intellectual and ethical issues affect the practices of science and technology. Applies themes from Saul Bellow's novel to resulting problems of public and private policy. Stresses the value of general and liberal education in facing these issues. (DMM)

Summarizes positions in favor of and opposed to euthanasia. Presents suggestions for discussing euthanasia in high school biology classes. (MA)

Ethical issues confront behavior therapists in a variety of ways, and must therefore be defined. Being objective means being willing to change the mind even if belief is reinforced by the verbal community. Similarly, acting in a morally correct way sometimes means acting contrary to reinforcing practices. (PJC)

College students were tested on Hogan's Survey of Ethical Attitudes, Rest's Defining Issues Test, Collins' revision of Rotter's Internal-External Scale, and Snyder's Self-Monitoring Scale. Subjects who endorsed personal conscience showed greater maturity in moral reasoning. The subjects who advocated social responsibility tended to show more…

Reports results of responses of liberal arts undergraduates from three southwest universities and one university in Hawaii to the Mirels-Garrett Protestant Ethic Scale. Interpretation of the scale indicates that the American Protestant Ethic for University students has two major clusters--one emphasizing work and the other emphasizing leisure.…

Liberal arts scholars can make good academic administrators because their disciplines develop the necessary skills, including the abilities to see things whole, to identify intellectual excellence, to know the moral dimensions of behavior, to envision how life may be bettered, and to be sensitive to minorities. (Author/MSE)

Suggests that social studies teachers should rationally advocate that students should adhere to specific moral norms. Three considerations include community agreement on which moral norms are the focus of instruction, teacher training, and method and content of instruction. (KC)

Discusses the effects of moral and political censorship of literature that is sometimes exercised when children's books go into paperback form. (MKM)

Ideas are given for incorporating moral education into the classroom setting. Examples draw primarily from science and environmental education. (SA)