Examines the promulgation of authors' ideologies in children's literature through the politics of advocacy, attack, and assent. (HOD)

Describes the Child Development Project in California, which holds that academic and character education are equally important goals for schools. The project has been established to produce long-lasting effects on children's "prosocial" development. (MD)

Reviews the history of the passage of the Hatch Amendment. Defines the regulations and examines testimony given during congressional hearings. Discusses the implications of the amendment. (MD)

A values survey eliciting judgments of the morality of 50 behaviors was administered to 93 college students and their parents. Among the students, whose judgments were generally more lenient than their parents', sex differences were virtually nonexistent. Mothers' judgments were more severe than fathers' across a wide range of behaviors.…

Four teachers comment on the characteristics of people that students consider to be heroes. (EL)

Describes development of theories of moral education, including those of William McGuffy, John Dewey, Jean Piaget, and Lawrence Kohlberg. Illustrates relationship of Kohlberg's stages of moral maturity to Piaget's stages of cognitive development. Notes criticisms of Kohlberg's theory, and describes alternatives including behavior modification and…

Moral relativism, spearheaded by values clarification techniques, has transformed the ethos of South Australian schools. The theory and practice of innovative pedagogy in the realm of moral values is critiqued. Suggestions as to how a secular system of education can avoid moral anarchy without relapsing into ideological indoctrination are made.…

Surveyed is the recent historiography of the moral dimensions of war, revolution, slavery, and cultural decline, showing gaps that need to be filled and pointing to pioneering works of moral history written mostly by nonhistorians. The outline of a new moral history is sketched and implications for higher education suggested. (RM)

Presents four teachers' view on the role of Christianity in literature discussions. Suggests that the importance of Christianity in the formation of Western values and the development of Western literature cannot be ignored. (MM)

Medical school students were tested on ethical reasoning to see if a correlation existed between high scores in such reasoning and the medical school admission process. No correlation was found. More work should be done on the philosophical issue of whether ethical thinking should be addressed in medical school admissions. (Author/IS)

Subjects read a supposedly real news account of a medical experiment in which the scarcity of the treatment employed and the amount of scientific justification for the experiment were experimentally varied. Factors that might influence public attitudes about social experiments are explored. (Author/DEP)

Modern education is examined in the light of John Dewey's theory that moral education is a process of involving singular human beings, living consciously in association with one another, in thinking purposively and intelligently about subject-matter provided by their common, intertwined lives. (JD)

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A questionnaire was administered to 120 public school church-related Sunday school teachers to determine and compare (1) their own personal commitment to Judeo-Christian values, (2) their view of their role as purveyors of those values to their pupils, and (3) their belief in and commitment to a fixed value system. (ND)

Outlines four logical tests for determining the validity of a person's reasoning with respect to the issue of bussing for school integration. (Author/JG)