A synthesis of various theories of a new moral-ethical order arising out of the 1960's is presented. The ethics of the under-35 population is seen as one centering on: (1) ecological perspectives (people as part of a natural world) and (2) self-realization (education, work, and leisure for the purpose of developing selfhood). (MJB)

Presents ethical questions for all group counselors to consider in practicing. (Author)

Defines the value-clarification approach as one that teaches the individual to think through issues, and, eventually, to develop his or her own value system through a cognitive process involving verbalization, role-playing, and composing value-laden situations. Its overriding aim is, through examination, consideration, and exploration, to make…

Describes a course addressing the social consequence of engineering work and the contributions of technology to societal problems. (SL)

Heightens student awareness of ethical considerations inherent in advertising procedures, enabling students to articulate a position on an advertising issue without undue bias. (RL)

Younger students stuck to the rule "go to the end of the line" in every situation tested, while older subjects made some justifications for retaking a place in line. (RL)

This discussion focuses on the problem faced by biomedical students who are learning objective, factual information and techniques without being given the opportunity to consider the many ethical dilemmas and moral questions that will arise after graduation. (LBH)

The intellectual framework of law and the legal profession in the U.S. is examined in terms of the unarticulated value system of legal education. Sources of the value system are discussed along with implications as viewed from a moral and religious perspective. (LBH)

Traces the origin of the Values Clarification movement in education in Carl Roger's clien-centered therapy and exposes its unwarranted extreme ethical stance. Examines a model episode of values clarification and shows how the theoretical confusions of the Values Clarification proponents are reflected in their actual teaching strategies. (Editor/RK)

Examining historical shifts in the nature of parental authority, minors' rights, and sexual morality along with accompanying shifts in adolescent coital behavior, the author, a physician and Director of the Adolescent Medical Unit at New York's Bellevue Hospital, concludes that greater sexual freedom is a mark of social advance requiring a new…

Three surveys of college student attitudes have been conducted in 1962, 1972, and 1973. Over the decade since the days of the Cold War, significant change was found in the direction of increased antiwar or pacifist sentiment. (Author)

The literature and research on values are examined in terms of the implications for teaching values at the baccalaureate level. Instructional strategies that are compatible with the valuing process are suggested. (Author/LBH)

Suggests that in the recesses of the American collective conscience the vision of the original conception of happiness of mankind has not been lost. Yet, we still live on the brink of return to internecine racist and economic paradoxes which refuse to end even though they represent absurd burdens. (Author/AM)

The author identifies four main sources of moral relativism; defines cultural and ethical relativism, and social and personal moral relativism; and presents three arguments to refute moral relativism. (AV)

The work ethic and the success of a system based increasingly upon consumerism has created an image of man in which the quality of life is measured in terms of quantity and ownership of goods; in ethics and attitude, our system of education is creating an ideally receptive population for the producer-consumer society. (JD)