This resource book provides ideas, strategies, techniques, examples, and resources for organizing, implementing, sustaining, and assessing character education programs in K-12 schools. The text is organized into several topics: (1) historical and theoretical bases for character education; (2) a description of a comprehensive character education…

This report discusses the outcomes of a study that examined the beliefs concerning the moral and religious development of individuals with mental retardation. Forty-four individuals who met the criteria of professionals who provide direct care to, or had administrative responsibility for, individuals with mental retardation participated in the…

Two limitations in the Report of the International Commission on the Development in Education reflect its unenthusiastic welcome from certain sectors of the Third World. The document failed to explain the phenomenon of inequality and of social and educational injustice and contained an ingenuous reliance on a scientific approach. (Author/KM)

Ethical development was investigated in a cross-cultural context by examining both the cognitive structure of ethical reasoning and the content of perceived moral norms in black Carib boys of British Honduras in the framework of stage theory. (Author/JM)

Provides some extracts from school board "gift' policies governing the acceptance of gifts by school personnel. (Author/WM)

Author considered black Americans and their efforts to adopt a strongly self-determinist position in their attempt to shape their world. (Author/RK)

Presents a review of genetic engineering, in which the genotypes of plants and animals (including human genotypes) may be manipulated for the benefit of the human species. Discusses associated problems and solutions and provides an extensive bibliography of literature relating to genetic engineering. (JR)

The theory and application of teaching moral education in the classroom are discussed. (KM)

Article evaluates the role of the middle class in the course of Western civilization and its discovery and underwriting of liberal humanism. (Author/RK)

The prupose of this study was to examine within a classroom the effects of adults modeling responses to moral situations with or without rule structure on responses of fifth graders. (Author)

Experiment designed to test the hypotheses that children's moral judgments are dependent upon sanctions; that independence of sanctions increases with age; that the dependent upon sanctions is determined by the content in the story problem and the type of sanction employed. (Authors/CB)

Views the arts as sharing basic concepts central to aesthetic experience. Encourages aesthetic education in order to humanize character. (DS)

Article examines the correlation between drug use and sex among college students. (RK)

Sequel to an article published in the Feb-Mar 1973 issue; third article to follow. (DD)

In this paper there is an attempt to provide a descriptive definition of the Jesus Movement and a typology of recruitment motivation for the Movement (Author)