Liberal arts colleges are seen as engaged in moral education. Three moral lessons that a college teaches are described as (1) love for the truth, (2) learning is a human good, and (3) learning requires intellectual rigor or "discipline." Colleges are seen as places of hope. (MLW)

The author attempts to show that people's values and attitudes toward art and art education are influenced by the values of their economic system. Predicting that the American economy faces a radical transformation from uninterrupted growth to regulated stability, he indicates some expected changes in attitudes toward art. (SJL)

Since Plato, the traditional ideal of the educated person has been the leader. In a democracy, however, it is the education of the entire people, not the leaders, that is paramount. Educational institutions must prepare people to be concerned critics, who hold their leaders and decision makers accountable. (Author/SJL)

A content analysis of primary school readers of Sierra Leone revealed that the particular modern and traditional normative aspirations expressed in the National Development Plan for 1974/75-1978/79 were also generally reflected in the children's readers. (Editor)

A truly balanced institution of liberal learning requires that socially useful information be broadly defined in order to safeguard academic freedom and foster the goals of a social democracy. (CJ)

Values clarification may be one of the tools counselors and psychological educators can use to help males determine their own value preferences. Research on values clarification over varying time sequences needs to determine if the spacing of values clarification strategies has an effect. (Author)

Evaluates and discusses a program to help women returning to school make an adjustment to the college environment. Components of the program are values clarification, decision making, and assertion training. Suggestions are offered for the design and implementation of additional programs. (Author)

Standard logic courses are seen as unsuitable for liberal arts curricula because they emphasize the formal logic of calculative thinking. To develop the capacity of students to make moral decisions, logic courses should emphasize thinking skills based on informal logic or rhetoric, a logic of practical reasoning and communication. (Author/MLW)

Parents, churches, and the community are important factors in the education of children. In the future, rural educational processes will become much more integrated into the total life of the community, with businesses, government, and social organizations serving as an extension of the classroom. (Author/CM)

Suggests a common research protocol for case study analyses of controversies in science and technology, facilitating future comparative research aimed at developing generalizations about disputes and their resolution. Aspects of the protocol include an overview to the controversy and descriptions of actors, strategy, tactics, knowledge claims,…

A full week of lessons, including field trips and speakers, is outlined to teach intermediate grade pupils to explore television and view it more critically. (SJL)

Reviews the women's movement in France during the past two centuries. A discussion of the process by which French women acquired political rights and access to education and the professions leads to examination of the question of future directions. An annotated listing of French women's movements is appended. (AMH)

Six major factors that could affect the future of collegiate athletics were considered by the American Council on Education's Commission on Collegiate Athletics. They are: demographic trends, economics and costs, personal values, individual participation patterns, changing patterns of institutional sports programs, and regulation. (JMD)

The controversial issue of fur trapping is addressed in this article. It focuses on ways to incorporate humane education into the curriculum, using, for example, values clarification, the biology of the animals, and field trips. (SA)