Technological and scientific developments, progress in the discipline of gerontology, and an ageing population mean that we now have to contend with previously unknown ethical problems. Therefore, the teaching of ethics is an essential element of a comprehensive education in gerontology. This article discusses the unique aspects of gerontology…

With increasing numbers of single-parent and two-career families, more parents and other community members lack the time to instill in children the values and ethics they have traditionally provided. This document addresses the challenges faced by educators as they teach these values, and it reports on successful approaches in the field, both on…

The author explores the ethical question of what is right in creating "new" people by teaching them another culture.

A pilot study sought to determine whether an ethics course had an impact on the moral maturity of college students in technical communication. Two groups of students from Drexel University (Pennsylvania) and the University of Minnesota (one group of nine with a previous ethics course, and one group of seven with none) were presented with a…

To demonstrate the inappropriateness of fables for moral instruction at early elementary levels, a study was conducted with children from grades two, four, and six in two suburban schools on Long Island (New York). The children listened to recordings of three fables, "The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf,""The Fox and the Goat," and "The Lion and the…

The primary purpose of academic instruction in religion in the public schools is to inform children about religion rather than to indoctrinate them. When the study of religion is presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, there are no legal barriers. Now that the Supreme Court has settled the debate about what can and cannot…

The rationale for values education is reviewed and it is suggested that the language of values education does not belong in education. The authors state that teaching is an activity that takes aggressive and direct action on students' opinions and beliefs, not for the sake of their values, but for their characters. (LBH)

Examines secretarial loyalty in the face of an employer's legal or moral wrongdoing and the need for the secretarial studies education program to address this issue. (TA)

Clarifying values through physical education is one way to make classrooms and gymnasiums more relevant to a world of change, confusion, and conflict. (JD)

This article offers early childhood professionals six cases regarding ethical problems faced in the field and guidelines for group discussion of the cases. This material is to be used in conjunction with the article by Kenneth Kipnis in this issue about ways to discuss professional ethics. (RH)

It is argued that liberalism is rejectable by reasonable people and that inculcating liberal beliefs in the minds of children is, therefore, inconsistent with liberalism. In particular, R. M. Hare's defense of teaching liberal morality as being consistent with liberal morality itself is attacked. (Author/RM)

Callan (Journal of Moral Education, Jan. 1985) argued that liberalism is rejectable by reasonable people and that inculcating liberal beliefs in children's minds is, therefore, inconsistent with liberalism. In this reply, the author argues that making distinctions between different senses of "reasonable" and "liberalism"…

Author describes how psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg's work has been influential in a different line of research than Kohlberg's own, sharing observations of the impact of Kohlberg's work on the field of moral education and on the author's own work in the field. (Author/NB)