Focuses on the nature and extent of censorship of social studies materials in the United States. Specific topics addressed are persons and organizations censoring, status of the rights of teachers, and what educators, schools, and professional organizations such as the National Council for the Social Studies can do to help teachers deal with…

Surveys children's books from colonial times to the present to show how they reflect changing attitudes toward children. (GT)

Research on the values clarification and moral development approaches to values education is reviewed. The purpose of the research, sample, treatment duration, instrumentation, effects of treatment, internal and external validity problems, major strengths and weaknesses, and confidence in researcher's claims are provided for each study. Further…

The development of values clarification in education can open the door to growth and self-fulfillment for the individual. (JD)

Provides guidelines for making correct ethical decisions about what to publish in a student publication. (GW)

Self-destruction has invaded the campuses of American colleges and universities, with students taking their own lives in increasing numbers each year. The author discusses why they do it and what can be done, particularly by teachers, to stop students from committing suicide. (Author/RK)

At Montclair State College, New Jersey, the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children is designing a curriculum in philosophy for children from grades K-12, as well as conducting experimental research to show that the study of philosophy can make a qualitative difference in children's reasoning, reading comprehension and…

The problem of moral education in the context of career preparation is discussed with reference to the Dickinson College program. Focus is on its career advising and curriculum elements and their relationship to student self-reflection and social analysis. (LBH)

The author discusses the interrelationship between hypotheses and the predictions they generate. He uses spiders, behavior models, and the Civil War as examples to illustrate his discussion. The author believes that it is the responsibility of science instructors to teach an understanding of the nature of science to their students. (MA)

In asserting and protecting the legal, moral and intellectual rights of children, a society reinforces and maintains those same rights for all of its citizens. (JD)

Suggests that educational reform should not be undertaken because of external pressures, out of anguish or expediency; it should, rather evolve out of a realization that answers are needed to meet essential societal needs. (Author/AM)

The newly emerging ecologic approach to health education is focused on the man-environment complex, in terms of not only personal health but of awareness of man's position in the scheme of evolution and his responsibility for the environment of the world. (JD)

Students in a 12-week facilitative skills development course completed a measure of moral development before and after training and were rated for empathic understanding of client statements on an analog videotape and a counseling audiotape. Empathy ratings on the videotape and audiotape correlated significantly with moral development scores,…

Briefly states the stages of moral development in children (Damon 1977). Discusses ways in which children's literature dealing with social issues can help children reason about topics such as distributive justice. Identifies guidelines for related discussions and lists books and questions that stimulate discussion on sharing. (AS)

Teachers with relatively high scores on the Defining Issues Test of moral development, contrasted with teachers with relatively low scores, had a more democratic view of teacher and student roles, and saw rules as protecting the rights of individual students as well as the group's rights. (NH)