How schools can be restructured to make them sources of ethical experiences is discussed in this article; responses to the author's point of view by other writers are printed at the end of the article. (JD)

Children are often capable of observing social injustice and of making moral and ethical judgments; the adults they associate with should understand and encourage this awareness in children. (JD)

There is value in learning how to learn from the expressive dimension of one's contacts with others--not in order to contrive an expressive tactic to mislead others, but to understand what it means to be oneself. (MJB)

The present paper attempts to provide a rationale for dealing with the ethical dimensions involved in protecting human subjects in educational research. (Author)

Representative samples of curriculum development in social studies are presented based on a model designed to involve students actively in both the historical and dilemma-solving processes. (MJB)

Though American attitudes and beliefs have held remarkably constant over 200 years, inconsistencies are now chipping away at the old profile, giving it a new look for the third century. Political, social, and moral changes are discussed. (Editor/LBH)

Changes in individual attitudes toward traditional morality are charted by focusing on a sample of 1950 persons from rural Pennsylvania surveyed as high school sophomores in 1947 and again 24 years later. Attitudes changed toward a more permissive stance in regard to questions concerned with adult behavior. (Author)

To right-wing groups and some feminists pornography symbolizes immorality. The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography supported this thinking. It concluded that pornography increases aggression and it instituted a crackdown on pornography. Since no empirical evidence supports its conclusions, the commission was more concerned with censorship…

Examined effects of verbal procedures on persistence for rehabilitation clients using experimental approaches influencing persistence on undergraduate students (N=115) The moral reasoning approach resulted in significantly greater persistence than did other approaches or controls. Concludes that persistence can be influenced by verbal approaches…

Reports the results of a random survey of members of the Association for Specialists in Group Work, in which their perceptions of the behavior of group leaders was evaluated as being ethical or unethical. (Author)

Excerpts from Cornell University president Frank H. T. Rhodes's recent speech calling for a return to college curricula that enhances students' intellectual and moral well-being, provides more educational coherence and breadth, and embodies a philosophy of commitment are presented. (MSE)

An English professor answers the most difficult questions from people who would censor school reading materials. The "secular humanism" controversy has provoked such diverse moral and legal meanings that librarians often avoid book selections. Educators can make informed decisions about good literature, even if the reality depicted appears…

Management theory as a morally neutral science aiming to improve educational institutions is doomed to failure. School administration is inescapably bound up with ethical values and depends on democratic decision making by staff with high self-esteem. Staff with little confidence or pride in their work cannot make good decisions. Includes 13…

The study examined the level of acceptance of questionable marketing practices by marketing students, instructors, and practitioners. An instrument consisting of 40 such practices was administered to the groups. Results suggest that ethical orientation may be dependent on situational perspectives, proximity to business practice, years of…

Tested Gilligan's (1982) claim that men and women differ in moral judgments. College students read four traditional moral dilemmas and rated the importance of 12 considerations for deciding how the protagonist should respond. There were no reliable sex differences on moral reasoning. Sex-typed personality measures also failed to predict individual…