Presented at the 66th Annual Convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Detroit, Michigan, April 7-10, 1969.

One of a series of books written in Spanish about Spanish speaking children, this is the rhyming story of a little boy whose classmates do not want to associate with him because he has no respect for their personal property. When he realizes his mistake, he makes many friends. Colored pictures illustrate the story. (CM)

This report describes a study undertaken to assess student choices in medical ethical dilemmas. Medical ethical dilemmas are interpreted to include problems such as abortion, euthanasia, sterilization, experimentation on humans, allocation of scarce medical resources, and physician and health personnel training. The major purpose of the study was…

This booklet deals with moral education examining major issues of theory and public policy and suggesting how educators might approach their roles as moral educators in the real world of schools. Written in a question/answer format, the booklet is organized into four major sections. In the first section, the author defines moral education to mean…

This symposium focused on the social, political, and ethical implications of the current trends in genetic research. Four papers are presented here along with transcripts of the accompanying discussions. The topics include: (1) genetics and the biological basis of the human condition; (2) the pros and cons of genetic counseling; (3) genetics and…

Presenting the argument that contemporary criticism has lost its moral authority (and blaming modernism for that loss), Goodheart focuses on contending spiritual views. In particular he analyzes the dialectic between the Protestant-inspired humanist tradition of Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, and Lawrence and the decay of Catholicism represented by…

Critical thinking is defined as the ability and willingness to be objective, impartial, and non-arbitrary, based on evidence. It is crucial to ethical instruction, study of theory, teaching methods, and training in skills or abilities. There are three reasons why critical thinking is an educational ideal: (1) it influences teachers to respect…

European legal traditions are bound very closely to the religious, moral, and ethical traditions of Christianity. It is therefore disconcerting to find persons involved in Catholic education, whether as students, staff, or professional educators, turning to civil authority to find just resolution of their school-related problems. It is especially…

AS PART OF A LONGITUDINAL STUDY TO DETERMINE IF CHANGES IN A STUDENT'S VALUES, NEEDS, AND EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES ARE MORE ORDERLY AND PREDICTABLE THAN PRIOR RESEARCH HAS INDICATED, THE POE INVENTORY OF VALUES WAS ADMINISTERED TO 225 STUDENTS DURING EACH OF THEIR COLLEGE YEARS. THIS INSTRUMENT YIELDS EIGHT SCORES -- (1) AESTHETIC, (2) INTELLECTUAL,…

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL ATTITUDES AMONG AMERICAN-BORN WHITE AND NEGRO CHILDREN, WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF PIAGET'S THEORY, WAS INVESTIGATED. WHITE AND NEGRO CHILDREN FROM FOUR NUMERICALLY DEFINED SOCIAL CLASS LEVELS WERE COMPARED, AND THE RELATIONSHIP OF MORAL ATTITUDES TO INTELLIGENCE WAS STUDIED. EACH OF THE 200 CHILDREN, RANGING IN AGE FROM 9.5…

JOHN H. PORTERFIELD ADDRESSED THE CONFERENCE ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND THE CHURCHES BY POINTING OUT THE PLACE OF EDUCATION IN SHAPING TODAY'S MORAL VALUES AND THE PARALLEL GOALS OF CHURCH AND SCHOOL IN DEVELOPING THE STUDENT AS A WHOLE PERSON FOR HIS ROLE IN A SOCIETY IN CONSTANT NEED OF RENEWAL. WILLIAM H. LOVELL…

The Defining Issues Test (DIT), which utilizes the moral development stage theory of L. Kohlberg, was administered to 41 students from an upper middle class school district in Pennsylvania. The scores of students who elected to attend the alternative high school were compared with the scores of students who elected to attend the district's…

Four prime time television programs--"Charlie's Angels,""Little House on the Prairie,""Grizzly Adams," and "Lou Grant" --were rated by university students for their portrayal of moral reasoning and values. Data were obtained from three episodes of each program by randomly assigning raters to one of two viewing groups, both of which used an…

This set of papers contains an examination of the issues that are increasingly confronting society as science and technology enter the social and ethical realm of concern. The conditions which are necessary for scientists and engineers to voice concerns to the general public are suggested. An appeal is made to government agencies, industrial…

A national sample of journalists, consisting of 700 television news photographers, newspaper photographers, television news directors, newspaper editors, and journalism educators, was asked to evaluate the ethical conduct in eight situations involving alleged invasion of privacy by photography. The respondents found journalistic conduct to be…