A rating-scale instrument was devised to clarify the relationship between children's judgments of naughtiness of a story character and the story's description of the character's intent and the consequences of his behavior. (Author)

To help students become more honest rhetoricians," teachers must recognize the issues involved in teaching controversial subjects." (Author/SW)

The academic, believing himself appointed to reshape society, now finds society has no wish to be reshaped and regards him as one cause of social distress. (Editor/IR)

Counselors appear to be valuing" in recommendations they pass on to colleges in what they do and do not include. (Editor)

Discussed the need to reach agreement on precise objectives in sex education. (Author/RK)

Presents a model that can be used by social scientists to formulate and test choice alternatives to select the most ethical course of action when values are in conflict. Graduate students in psychology, education, and medicine have used the model to recognize and resolve ethical problems. (RM)

Investigated the implicational relations between dispositional levels and relevant categories of behavior. Findings were consistent with the idea that dispositional labels are used to represent a central tendency in a person's behavior. (Author)

Representing an attempt to document the basic assumptions of Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental theory of moral judgment, a 20-year longitudinal study was conducted. Assessed was the moral judgment development of 58 boys ages 10, 13, and 16 when the study began. At each of six testing times, subjects were individually interviewed on their…

The German Nazis took power in a country thought to be one of the most educationally and culturally advanced on earth. Books and stories for children that help them explore ethical questions about the Holocaust are discussed. (PP)

Three issues--the Catholic school experience, the ruling of the Supreme Court on abortion, and the nuclear debate--are discussed from the point of view of a Catholic living in the United States. (JM)

The college, public or private, contains two separate realms. The public realm is the sphere of life bearing on the values sought by the college, and the private realm is that not bearing on those values. The scope of these realms is determined by the college's implicit and explicit purposes. (MSE)

American Indians are seen today as active determinants of American history. Discussed is a classic problem posed by ethnohistorians for historians: If each society must be judged by its own standards, how do we assess those numerous historical situations in which Indian and White values collided? (RM)