Values education has become an important theme in social studies education in recent years. Although long ignored, moral education, as the British call it, is being emphasized as the pressures on and needs of children in a fast-paced society have become evident. Professional organizations have conducted workshops on the topic of values education.…

This paper suggests ways of structuring the content of feedback experimentally to test hypotheses of interest. Use of the feedback process in this manner suggests a variety of research and intervention tactics, many of them unexplored and some of them implying ethically questionable conduct. Consideration of this question also helps illuminate the…

A structured preliminary interview for children grades 1 to 3 was devised to obtain information on the kinds of situations relevant to seven hypothesized value dimensions based on the following categories of needs: 1) physiological, 2) safety, 3) love, 4) esteem, 5) aesthetic, 6) self-actualization, and, 7) aggression. A total of 23 children from…

The older tradition of native American literature is discussed in terms of the systems of values which we bring to it, as well as those embedded in it. The analysis leads to a statement of some of the strengths of recent native American literature, which carries from the past some of the value judgments that have always kept the group or the tribe…

An examination is made of the specific language used in giving advice and the fine difference possible between what the speaker says and the effect of what he says on the actions or thoughts of the person receiving advice. (JD)

The relationship of continuing personal growth and improved self-concept on the part of the teacher and effectiveness in teaching is discussed. (JD)

Data extracted from the 1960 and 1970 censuses and from a 1976 community survey indicate that community of residence is a crucial factor in shaping attitudes towards social problems. For this reason, community should be viewed as an independent moral order through which individuals attempt to decode the larger society. (Author/WI)

The relationship was studied between Kohlberg's stages of moral development and the process of decision making utilized by 214 subjects, aged 14 to 63 years, during the resolution of hypothetical moral dilemmas. It was not possible to distinguish moral development stages on the basis of decision making criteria. (Author/BH)

This article discusses the ethical issues involved in research on human "in vitro" fertilization, laboratory experimentation with human embryos, and the intrauterine transfer of such embryos for the purpose of assisting human reproduction. (Author/MC)

A brief look at Columbia, Harvard, and Notre Dame law schools shows that the American tradition in teaching natural law has not been strong. The value of teaching natural law is discussed, a separate course or seminar is seen as the most effective option, and a selection of available sources for such a course is appended. (JMD)

Comments on the sociological analysis of the scientific community, its social norms and values. Discusses the ethos of science and some aspects of development processes that scientists go through to enter their profession. (GA)

This investigation studied the influences of television's behavioral models on institutionalized, emotionally disturbed children between the ages of 6 and 11. Investigated were children's perceptions and judgments of right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate behaviors. (SE)

The Education for All Handicapped Children Act calls for social, political, and economic reforms, as well as educational reforms. (JD)

A survey of the nature of values with a brief examination of the problem of relativism precedes a discussion of intellectual and moral values education as an appropriate responsibility for higher education. Higher education's opportunity to serve the needs of democratic society with its moral dilemmas is also demonstrated. (JMD)