Discusses the results of a survey which examined mass media law instructors' attitudes and practices concerning the incorporation of ethics material into the media law curriculum. Reports that, although instructors believe ethics has an important relationship to media law, few instructors use materials that provide formal or theoretical grounding…

Discusses, with examples, how values and morality affect psychiatry and child rearing. Asserts that moral imperatives are taught primarily by example rather than by instruction. Also comments on the fallacy of "value free" psychiatry. (GC)

The problems physical educators have encountered in values development in a sports setting are discussed, and a model of a more productive approach is presented. The model suggests educators must make a stronger commitment to values education by being better role models and by teaching values. (Author/MT)

Discusses: (1) extrinsic ethics; (2) intrinsic ethics; (3) why ethics should be taught in science; and (4) ethics in the Science in Society course. (JN)

A model is proposed to explain how the learning process of ethical reasoning occurs. It integrates the learning process (Kolb, 1976) and a developmental scheme of ethical reasoning (Van Hoose, 1980). Implications for ethics training in educational programs and ethical behavior in professional practice are discussed. (Author)

A society is committed to basic moral principles as a function of being human and not merely by consensus. However, society's commitment to Christianity depends on the extent to which that faith is rooted in the population, even though the state may have a moral duty to provide religious freedom. (RM)

The Damon hierarchy of development of children's sense of positive justice is examined for its usefulness in predicting fairness in behavior and reliability in age patterning of its stated levels of reasoning. The hierarchy's value as a developmental schedule for teacher guidance may be questionable. (Author)

Civic education has been assigned a low priority. Team effort and team competition should be as prominent in cerebral development as in athletics in order to improve citizen skills and citizen orientation. Reward structures are needed where collective problem solving is more highly prized than individual achievement. (RDN)

The aims of punishment as traditionally conceived are, in the case of children, incompatible with the aims of moral education. The onus of justification must rest with those who wish to impose upon children. (Author/RM)

Reviews literature related to practical efforts to cultivate desired moral development reasoning and behavior. Uses Kohlberg's concepts as a reference point to help identify issues, problems, and possibilities, and proposes several practical guidelines for moral development training in the schools. (JAC)

Author challenged Lawrence Kohlberg's theory of moral development with its conjoint moral standards. One's knowledge of the principle of moral justice, he said, does not offer him directives for dealing with specific moral conflicts. (Editor/RK)

This article suggests two projects for high school students to help them analyze the steps that lead to involvements such as Watergate. (Author/RM)

Author discusses Kohlberg's developments and feels they can help in the development of a mature moral consciousness. (GB)

American independent schools could make themselves known and valued as ethics-teaching oases in the desert of our contemporary amorality (Author)

Believing that the 3-educational system of Yugoslavia can be understood only by considering its development in terms of the history of its three constituent republics, the author examines the educational histories of Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia before 1918. In spite of all measures introduced to promote literacy and education, the people had not…