This paper analyzes the ethically important moments that helped build, then break, and then negotiate the relationship between researchers and schools during an ethnographic-type study conducted by the team of researchers from a prominent private university. I posit that the researchers' unskilled approach culminated in producing written…

The developmental sequence of preschool children's moral judgments, and their emphasis on intentions versus property damage was investigated. Eight moral judgment stories with drawings were read to twelve 3 1/2- and twelve 4 1/2-year-old children (mean ages = 46.6 and 54.0 months, respectively). The stories included either positive or negative…

A theory of the assignment of moral responsibility and punishment for harm was tested with 5- to 11-year-old children. Results indicated sophisticated use of moral concepts from 5 years. Developmental trends suggested increasing sensitivity to these concepts, greater tolerance for harm doing, and more emphasis on restitution than punishment.…

The value-laden use of the language of problems and solutions is discussed, focusing on problem and solution, solution as problem, and values as determinants of problems and solutions. (BL)

Ways in which the ethics of value judgment are inherent in sociological research are examined. Also, the course of action that a researcher should consider when doing or talking ethics in relation to the society in which he or she expects to undertake research is discussed. (Author/RM)

Unless conjoined with certain desires, reason cannot move an agent to act. The article shows the conditions under which reasons for deciding on an action become reasons for action, explains the necessity of desire for possessing reasons, and explains a schema to analyze certain character traits pertinent to moral education. (SB)

Argues that teachers of literature should bring into the open for careful scrutiny the implied moral attitudes and social values in the literature they present. (HOD)

Grades are value judgments. They are not essential for learning, and they are motivating only as an exchange medium in a system that requires them. They are not a necessary method of assessment or measurement. Grading engenders conflicts between objectivity and the humanity of teaching. (SK)

Discusses publishing in the field of education technology. Topics include publishing as a tool for faculty evaluation; perceptions about publishing; academic versus nonacademic publications; quality versus quantity of scholarly work; refereed status; and journal rankings by academic prestige, general reading, and classroom use. (LRW)

Undergraduate (n=996) and graduate (n=294) business students in Hong Kong and China completed measures of moral development and conflict handling styles. A significant association between moral development stage and integrating style was found. Despite common Chinese cultural heritage, Hong Kong students had significantly lower moral development…

Notes that the expression of liking has the potential to generate negative and positive outcomes. Outlines an experiment which extends a common principle of attribution-making, the self-serving bias, to predict and explain participants' and nonparticipants' attributions for a confederate's nonverbal expressions of liking or disliking. (PM)

Discusses problems of general interest in developmental psychology that can be successfully studied in the domain of food; these include (1) development of food likes and dislikes; (2) establishment of the edible/inedible distinction; (3) disgust and contagion; (4) transgenerational communication of preferences; and (5) transition to food…

Looks at the usefulness of a stable realism for questions related to the description and understanding of art works. Explores two theories which may resolve the antagonism between representational meanings and their assertion as true properties of the work: (1) Wiggin's concept of authentic effect; and (2) Petit's theory of rectification and…

Examines how the interpretation of historical events and the values on which the interpretation is based inform our knowledge of decision making in education. The historian's analysis of policy-related events is based not only on the shared ideals or inherent values of historical research but in the choices which individual historians make. (KS)

Three studies examined preschoolers' judgments of moral and personal rules. Children were interviewed about punishment, the relative importance of various rule violations, and authority. Children reported that moral transgressions were more wrong than personal rule violations and that moral rule violators deserved greater punishment than did…