This article analyses the film "Mean girls" (2004) as a window on popular notions of the moral life of American high schools, which straddles Kohlberg's Stage 2 and 3. The film presents loyalty to peer group cliques as a key value, even as it offers an individualist, relativist critique of that loyalty. Gossip is the main transgression in this…

The purpose of this study was to uncover the perspectives that pertain to the literacy experiences of young Hispanic boys. Hispanic boys will be asked to describe, feel, judge, and make sense of their "public and private literacies" (Faulkner, 2005). This phenomenological study embraces two methods of data collection, participant focus groups and…

This dissertation is a biographical study of the life of a retired high school principal in Jamaica. Joan Miller Wint was born on May 10, 1946, in the small rural district of Success in Westmoreland, Jamaica. This study of Wint's life centers on school transformation and organizational change, exploring her leadership as a principal through the…

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to contribute to aligning higher education towards meeting the challenge of global sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: The barriers to sustainability are juxtaposed against the resources, responsibilities and potential of higher education. Ideas from several models and from within several disciplines are…

This study analyzes the lyrical content of popular music recordings, cited as censored from 1986 through 1995, in order to examine characteristics of the recordings that were found to be objectionable and the frequency with which the objections occurred. Out of 60 articles from the music trade magazines, "Billboard" and "Rolling…

In 1553 the work that is touted as the first complete book written in English on rhetoric was published, Thomas Wilson's "Arte of Rhetorique." It became so popular it enjoyed eight printings within its century. Wilson was not a person to translate and read just for knowledge; he believed that knowledge should be imparted to the general…

Money has been recognized as an important factor to attract, retain, and motivate employees and has significant impacts on people's behavior, performance, and effectiveness in organizations. Created to evaluate the validity of the Money Ethic Scale, this study investigates the measurement and dimensionality of money attitudes through…

Examines the character and ideology of college youth. Results show that in accordance with an ethics of responsibility, conservatives have a greater respect for the utility of rules in regulating human behavior and a greater tendency to attribute blame to the individual rather than the societal environment. (Author/DEP)

The author draws parallels between law and religion in the use of written fundamental documents, in jurisdictional assertions of authority, in interaction between a living, teaching supreme authority and a body of learned commentaries, and in belief in the persons who transcend the written documents. (JT)

Explains the origination of the present relationship between science and values and suggests that students be given guidelines in the process of infusing values into science. (LS)

Author explained her objective of teaching a workshop stressing the developmental nature of morality as well as acquainting a group of teachers with Kohlberg's dilemmas and their own. (Author/RK)

Scientific-technological progress and its social consequences are clarified in relation to the moral practices and conditions of socialist society. (Author/KM)

The meaning of the university as defined in speeches of Thomas Carlyle and John Stuart Mill is related to a contemporary atmosphere of fear and injustice in the current university. (KM)