Examined mothers' and their college-age daughters' attitudes about the value of children, rural-urban differences in attitudes, and family size effects. Correlations between mothers and daughters on two of nine Opinions About Children scales, rural-urban differences on three scales, and negligible differences for family size were found. (Author/BL)

Describes ways to integrate storytelling into outdoor education programs. Discusses use of storytelling to teach history, culture, concepts, or values; stimulate imagination; learn new words; set a mood; encourage listener participation; and foster caring attitudes about the environment. (LFL)

Nigerian society today exhibits symptoms of serious moral malaise. Current approaches to moral education in Nigerian schools are inadequate to cope with this moral crisis. It is argued that a consequentialist approach within the framework of an integrated approach to moral education should be adopted. (Author/RM)

Challenges certain theoretical assumptions underlying educational administration. Demands critical thinking about ethical aspects, particularly the relationship between "quality of judgement" and "deciding rightness." Proposes an ethics program for school administrators incorporating values reflected in schools as a social…

When the university discusses the South African divestiture issue only in terms of legal fiduciary principles, it encourages the perception that it is neglecting its other, perhaps unique, political responsibilities. The university should at least develop strategies promoting policies based on equal respect for all persons and reject policies…

Provides discussion questions, activity suggestions and sample quotes to provoke further examination of the Cold War era values evidenced in the baseball subculture (see SO 515 377, "Baseball and the Cold War: An Examination of Values). (JDH)

Both pharmacy and nonpharmacy organizations have condemned the use of the polygraph in the employment setting on the basis of questionable validity and protection of civil rights. Pharmacy educators should be familiar with the problems attendant to the use of this technique. (MLW)

A survey of elementary teachers who had participated in inservice programs conducted by the social studies curriculum projects of the late 1960s and early 1970s showed that these projects did have a positive impact on teaching. For example, 60 percent of responding teachers today use a student-centered/process-oriented approach to teaching. (RM)

To help students make sense of reality and perhaps improve it, schools must provide a liberal arts-oriented curriculum which builds up a subtle conceptual repertoire with regards to human relationships, the nature and purpose of society, life, and death. (RM)

Examines three recent books on Louisa May Alcott: (1) "A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott and Little Women" by Sarah Elbert, (2) "The Promise of Destiny: Children and Women in the Short Stories of Louisa May Alcott" by Joy Marsella, and (3) "Louisa May Alcott" by Ruth MacDonald. (HOD)

Investigates fate of issue of gender in eight reform reports currently dominating discourse on educational reform. Found that gender is not relevant category in the analysis of excellence in schools and that the past decade of legislation, new scholarship on women, research, and action for sex equity has gone unheeded. Concludes that goal of…

School organizations need to make changes in the organizational culture of schools in order to achieve excellence. An analogy between cognitive systems and organizational belief systems helps to explain the ways that beliefs and values are structured in school organizations. (MLF)

Observation of a sample of 24 Chicago (Illinois) principals for a period of 11 working days each, spread over the course of 1 to 2 school years, revealed evidence of an organizational loyalty/identification system and a training-oriented relationship between the principal and the district superintendent. (MLF)

Describes interviews with high school teachers and students from New Hampshire, Illinois, and Georgia in which the author asked teachers and students to define the term "character" as part of an investigation into the moral lives of children. (MD)

The question of how the academy can continue and prosper from the beneficent association with government without permitting government to debase science and learning for nationalist purposes is discussed in a speech at the annual meeting of the American Association of University Professors. Science and nationialism are seen as locked in mortal…