Successful leaders get results. To get results, you need to set priorities. This book can help you do a better job of setting priorities, recognizing the personal values that motivate your decision making, the probable trade-offs and consequences of your decisions, and the importance of aligning your priorities with your organization's…

Everyone involved in early childhood services needs to think about how program quality is defined--as either objective, or as subjective and value-based. Subjective accounts involve perspectives on the nature of quality which come from thinking persons, while objective accounts involve the nature of quality as it exists, independent of the way…

A study on moral development focused on the status passage from school to work. The paper-and-pencil form of the Moral Judgment Interview (an adaptation of Kohlberg's instrument by Gibbs and Widaman) was administered to young people aged 17-22 who had just finished schools and were starting as apprentices in insurance companies where they were…

This book identifies a method of moral thinking and moral decision making that is compatible with the methods of rigorous disciplinary scholarship. It demonstrates how a comprehensive program of values education may integrate effectively major components of learning in a manner that serves the purposes of human development. The book contributes to…

Adults must be willing to accept attitudes of criticism and rebellion as serious and valuable components of children's literature, but they should also expect a good children's book to make some sort of moral evaluation of those attitudes. For example, while one may respect the candor with which "Hansel and Gretel" depicts the struggle of children…

Conceptual encounter methodology has been used to investigate the experience of anger. With this method, investigators have attempted to construct an abstract structure that describes essential features of the experience being investigated. People are interviewed about concrete examples of the experience, given the abstract conceptualization, and…

Homosexual cognitive victimization is a term which emphasizes social evaluation of sexual behaviors judged in terms of sexual preference. Individual differences in cognitive victimization of homosexuals were examined in two studies. In the first study, undergraduate students (N=78) completed Likert-type rating scales measuring homosexual cognitive…

A 20-year study to monitor moral developmental stages is summarized with a focus on the invariant sequence and internal consistency of each stage. It is theorized that an individual passes through several stages in attaining moral judgment. As children grow older, they are able to integrate diverse points of view on a moral conflict. Each stage…

Alice Miller, the former psychoanalyst, has gained world renown for her controversial and provocative writings on child rearing. Miller contends that traditional child rearing practices--in schools, ecclesiastical settings, and the family--consist of physical and emotional cruelty that she labels "poisonous pedagogy." According to…

This article identifies, describes, and demonstrates theoretical and methodological developments through a study of policy cultures in six states (Arizona, California, Illinois, Penneylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin). (CB)

Provides a developmental interpretation of some of the differences in peoples' responses to art. The interpretation is based on a theory that focuses on how people understand paintings. Identifies a five-stage theory of aesthetic development and illustrates the typical stage responses of people viewing the Ivan Albright painting "Ida." (JDH)

Examines the relationship of moral judgement to moral action as well as to certain cognitive style variables. A total of 134 male and female eleventh- and twelfth-graders completed measures of moral judgement, field dependence-independence, and other variables, and nominated teachers who then rated the students for tendency to evidence morally…

Criteria are set forth for a philosophy that could contribute to advancement in educational administration. Three broad areas are covered: (1) the ideas and methods of educational administration; (2) communication and verification in the field; and (3) values and the normative side of education. (TE)

Takes issue with Lawrence Walker's literature review on developmental and individual differences in moral reasoning which found no consistent evidence for sex differences in moral development. Argues instead that the source and specific nature of these differences have yet to be established. (HOD)

Argues that moral education and science education are mutually relevant to each other; both imparting propositional knowledge and fostering the acquisition of certain virtues or propensities to behave in certain ways. Illustrates the importance of moral decision making within science and shows how science education and moral education may be…