In December 1996 UNESCO commissioned the Australian Broadcasting Authority to conduct a pilot study which considered a range of online issues; this report outlines the findings of the pilot study, based on data collected between February and May 1997 and updated in July 1997. The objective is to identify the main types of Internet content which…

This text presents educational philosophy mainly as a variety of philosophical thinking, or thought, which includes both process and content or method and principles. More specifically, the text takes such intellectual activity chiefly to be the quest for a certain kind of understanding, the quest that the ancient Greeks called "the love of…

This study sought to examine the potentially corrupting influences of media attention, money, and the accompanying stress on the moral reasoning of student athletes at both Division I and Division III National College Athletics Association (NCAA) schools. Subjects were 718 nonathletes and 277 randomly selected athletes at a Division I school and…

This book claims that morality is a two-way street, and adolescent students learn by watching teachers. It argues that schools should incorporate morality as a pivotal tool in education, noting that the American school is an exhausting, inefficient, and often dehumanizing place of work for teenagers and their elders. Students learn not just from…

The current status of the United States as an "immoral" society has a direct correlation to the lack of serious attention given to moral education in the classroom. Morality, and what constitutes morality education, is a topic of concern for parents as well as educators. Morality, as a term, incorporates the social, economic, and…

Article discusses the role of humanities and humanism in education as it may be in future times and its current effect on philosophical imperative. (Author/RK)

Examines constraints on school desegregation as experienced in four Louisiana dioceses. (JF)

Offers guidelines for educators in the affective domain of socialization, democratization, values in education, and morality. (Author/DN)

Observations about academic reform movements against a background of Erich Fromm's philosophies on human relationships and behavior. (Editor)

Data from a multi-national student survey were used to compare the religiosity in six African and Asian nations with religiosity in nine North American, West European, and Scandinavian nations. (JM)

This section presents the varied viewpoints of nine physicians, from the areas of pediatrics, child psychiatry, student health services, and psychoanalysis, on the controversial issue of sex education in the schools. Opinion is divided, and those who do feel positive toward the question urge extreme caution and reevaluation. (CJ)

Discusses ways of developing critical thinking ability, using the theme of a book as the organizing principle. Bibliography. (MD)

To investigate whether Chicanos and Anglos show the same progression through Kohlberg's general levels of moral reasoning, 169 second through ninth graders--selected controlling for age, grade level, socioeconomic status, IQ, sex, and religion--were presented five video-taped moral dilemmas and were administered a derivation of the Defining Issues…