Author defined "moral" and "moral education" with the purpose of clarifying our objectives and practices when attempting to teach value education or moral education. (RK)

Author stressed that Catholics must regroup to delineate their common beliefs and values. (Author/RK)

"If the student hasn't learned, the teacher hasn't taught!" Here's an old saw that is being re-sharpened. The case of Michigan deserves careful study.... (Editor)

This digest is intended to help parents prevent child sexual abuse. The digest provides facts about child sexual abuse and guidelines for dealing with abuse. Sections of the digest address the following questions: (1) What is child sexual abuse? (2) Could my child be sexually abused, and if so, by whom? (3) How would I know if my child is being…

What has in the past been called the missing children problem is in reality a set of at least five distinct problems, each of which needs to be researched, analyzed, and treated separately. The problems are family abductions, nonfamily abductions, runaways, thrownaways, and lost, injured, or otherwise missing children. Many of the children in at…

The digest examines conceptions of giftedness. A brief historical review notes L. Terman's work and impetus for increasingly broadened definitions since the 1940's. The 1969 Marland Report is cited and its definition of giftedness is presented. Current response to that definition's inclusion of six achievement areas (general academic ability,…

The paper examines the way in which semantics relates to policies of deinstitutionalization of persons with mental illness and mental retardation. Different understandings of common terms in the field are illustrated and it is suggested that the government plays many games, both number games and word games, in dealing with homeless people, migrant…

The document is intended to establish criteria for preschool services so that a handicapped child qualifying for services in one area of the state (Iowa) will qualify for those same services in another geographic area. An initial section examines the state's philosophical commitment to handicapped children. A subsequent section addresses the…

This glossary was designed to help explain the more commonly used environmental terms which appear in Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publications, news releases and other agency documents available to the public. These terms were selected to give a general sense of what a term or phrase means in relatively non-technical language. The terms…

The concept of organizational goals, although basic to the study of complex organizations, is no longer analyzed frequently by organizational researchers. The discipline of organizational studies began by concentrating on organizational goals, but by the 1960s researchers had found the concept inadequate as an explanatory variable. They moved to…

This paper prepared at the request of the South African Institute for Librarianship and Information Science develops a scientific definition for librarianship and guidelines for librarians based on that definition. An abridged version of the author's doctoral dissertation, the paper shows that a definition of librarianship is essential for the…

Even a superficial review of the literature on cognition would suggest that philosophers of the past and psychologists of the present frequently were concerned with the same problems. For the past three centuries, psychologists and philosophers have relied upon the concept of cognition to describe complex human functions such as memory, thinking,…

The author stated the case for saying that there is no real distinction between moral education and indoctrination and a sketch of moral education was attempted in order to yield the distinction needed. (Editor/RK)

Article attempted to define the metaphor and listed some of the main kinds of metaphor. (Author/RK)

Author discussed dictionaries in the classroom and their value to students as well as teachers. (Author/RK)