Explores the limitations of strict adherence to standards, critiquing the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium's "Model Standards for Beginning Teacher Licensing and Development" and suggesting that it emphasizes instrumental thinking (focused on the means to particular ends) rather than an ethical orientation. The…

Explores how language-based socialization patterns play an important role in caregiver's and children's construction of socio-moral meanings. Argues that through participation in communicative and narrative practices children begin to understand cultural meanings about morality. Demonstrates the mutual interdependence between construction of moral…

Examines the religious, political, and socio-economic traditions in the United States that help foster a culture of violence against children. Finds that Judeo-Christian religious beliefs are used to justify corporal punishment; political practice favors family privacy; limited government; and a separation between the public and private spheres.…

Character education, according to Martin Buber, goes beyond eliminating classroom behavior problems. Punishment and bribery are extrinsic and ineffective approaches. Helpfulness and responsibility must be taught within the context of a community of people who learn, play, and make decisions together. The Child Development Project helps children…

A student of the 1950s reflects on how moral issues were ignored in both the college curriculum and campus activities, and reviews research on moral development. Milestones in research on moral development since then are reviewed and applied to circumstances of individual colleges to encourage the creation of opportunities for student moral…

Describes how values are portrayed on prime-time network television. Looks at the prominence of values incidents in a story line and at how fully the values are explained. Examines how values incidents are structured and linked. Concludes that values incidents play an integral, if not principal, role in television programs. (RS)

Critiques arguments supporting the existence of pedagogical ethics in pedagogical practice. Contends that existing pedagogical ethics are irrelevant to pedagogical practice. Examines the results of moral argumentation, the dilemmas of moral acting, and the consequences of these for the pedagogical system. Proposes an alternative theoretical…

Argues that composition teachers must examine critically the assumptions that govern their personal lives and professional practices. Points out that value-free education can be negative if it effectively supports an unjust status quo. Suggests that composition instruction should be designed to trigger student analysis of society and its…

If one's reference point is university life a generation ago, one can say that things are getting better for gay faculty, students, administrators, and staff. College administrators need to take an activist stance to counteract misinformation about gays and cultural prejudices, and the growing problem of hate-motivated incidents. (MLW)

Examines how investigative journalists work within the unresolved tension between detached observation and active moral agency. Concludes that investigative journalism may oversee the reinforcement of dominant moral values, but may also preside over the definition and development, as well as the debasement and dissolution, of those values. (MS)

Analyzes the reconstruction of education in West Germany following World War II based on the author's personal experiences. Notes that the primary aim of re-education was to overcome nationalism, militarism, and the ideology of National Socialism, but that the efforts were not successful. Offers explanations for this lack of success. (KO)

Contrary to social control theory, adolescent boys' belief in the efficacy of honesty had little impact on minor deviant activities, whereas deviance had a large effect on beliefs. A situational theory of crime is needed to conceptualize the reciprocal causal relationship of beliefs and deviant behavior. Contains 60 references. (SV)

The pervasiveness of powerful computers and computer networks has raised the specter of new forms of abuse and of concomitant ethical issues. Blurred boundaries, hackers, the Computer Worm, ethical issues, and implications for academic institutions are discussed. (MLW)

Describes moral education in the Belgian context as an alternative to confessional religious education and as a separate weekly class led by teacher specialists in moral education. Discusses the training of teachers of moral education and the focus and objectives of the training. (GG)

This article identifies several directions in which health education currently channels its energies, and suggests more appropriate alternatives. Topics include: individual behavior versus a broader environmental focus, questionable links between risk factors and health promotion efforts, and the relationship of education and morality to health…