Drawing on the work of Erich Fromm and other thinkers, this essay concludes that schools can best offer moral education by treating students as people; teaching them philosophy and the receptive mode of thought, as in meditation; and discovering and presenting the self as a nucleus of communion and interrelatedness. (MJL)

This book discusses how students and practitioners should take into account four ethics paradigms to help solve authentic dilemmas. These paradigms are the ethic of justice, ethic of care, ethic of critique, and ethic of the profession. The book's purposes include demonstrating the application of these different paradigms through the discussion…

This paper posits the thesis that socialization into the profession of psychology is a process of acculturation. Students enter training with their own value traditions but are required to learn new ones when they become psychologists. The assumptions of the framework are that this "professional acculturation" (a) takes place over time, (b)…

This paper recommends an approach to moral education that helps students become better learners while becoming better people. The approach rests on six assumptions: an overarching aim of schooling is to provide students with a moral education; moral education is accomplished through direct instruction; an indirect approach to moral education based…

By focusing the research on Kant's theory of moral education, this Chinese language thesis aims to inquire into the essential nature of morality and the incentive to moral practice to arrive at the basic principles of cultivation of moral personality. The thesis first analyzes and makes a comparison among four schools of moral philosophy: social…

To help aid teachers and librarians in the search for appropriate resources to emphasize good character traits, this book provides an annotated guide to picture storybooks and the character traits each describes. It begins with an introduction that defines character, offers a history of character education, discusses what character education is,…

This article defines moral education, gives current examples of classroom experience in moral education, literature and program materials available and lists some problems the idea is encountering. (JA)

Outlines options available to schools, offers suggestions to teachers of sex education, and concludes that schools must work with parents to face up to the challenge of accurate and adequate sex education for all grades. (CJ)

The nature of the Soviet system of atheistic indoctrination is elaborated as an organic part of the entire process of teaching and upbringing, taught in all grades, in all subjects, and in all extracurricular and extra-school work. It is based on scientific criticism of religion, deduction, interdisciplinary study, militant student participation…

An analysis of the forms and methods by which the clergy influences the young people of the Soviet Union. An understanding of these makes it possible to define vital problems in atheistic work, especially in the school. (Author/SE)

A primary concern of teachers should be teaching students to value, to intellectually understand, and critically appraise values of three types: procedural, behavioral, substantive. (Author/SE)

Morals as well as cognitive learning should be part of school and college curriculums. (AF)

College faculty members should try to combine the college curricular and extracurricular activities of their students. (Editor)

"Training junior-high-age students in decision making with VTRs. (Editor)

The view that links a subjectivist view in ethics to an open approach to moral education is challenged, as well as the converse view that an objectivist ethical view entails a conformist approach. A liberal theory of moral education need not be morally neutral. (Author/RM)