Red Bank Catholic High School (New Jersey) has initiated an innovative science club called BRIM (Biological Revolution and Its Implications on Man) to inform and involve student members in recent biomedical advances and to promote critical thinking about their social and ethical implications. Club operations and financing are discussed. (Author)

Describes a workshop which addresses itself to the intersection of mid-life changes and faith development, designed for adults engaged in rethinking religious values and for religious leaders responsible for helping adults grow spiritually. (SK)

Describes an alcohol prevention program with a comprehensive developmental skills orientation. The program includes values clarification, decision making, career planning and communication skills, assertiveness and relaxation training, and relationship with parents and peers. (Author/JAC)

Discusses some of the issues relating to student values and presents some suggestions for motivating distributive education students to achieve desirable standards of behavior. Examines the teacher and other role models, expectations of high standards of behavior, student code of conduct, and student-teacher relationships. (CT)

Describes an assignment in an introductory speech course in which students record specified information in a daily journal. The record of experience is used in describing, interpreting, and discussing their value systems. (JMF)

Reviews research on two ways of practicing values clarification and value therapy. Values clarification research is derived from its widespread practice, whereas value therapy is derived from experimental research. A need to consider how these approaches work with different age groups is indicated. (Author)

Women making the transition from home to paid employment often need help identifying their values, setting goals, assessing abilities and interests, and organizing a job search compaign. An overview of a three-day workshop planned to address these issues is presented. (Author/CC)

There is no difference between the effectiveness of the approach treatments as measured in the cognitive domain and the self-reported behavior domain, with neither treatment having a beneficial effect on the self-reported drug abuse and smoking behavior of the subjects. (MB)

Sharply criticizes values clarification as a serious threat to moral existence and possibly to the physical existence of mankind. Values clarification, an educational innovation and a teaching technique, is harmful, says the author, because it tells students, in effect, that they need not come to decisions about serious moral questions and engage…

Argues that good budgets flow from good planning, and that good planning requires a careful process that asks the right questions. Looks at the need for planning, the importance of vision, the role of values, campus environment, hierarchies, the economic context, and unforeseen events. Advocates asking good questions using good information. (RJM)

Environmental ethics provide a set of related values that help to limit or restrict individual freedom in order to save and protect nature. Examples of environmental ethics include land ethics, deep ecology, social ecology, Native or first peoples' worldviews, reverence for life, and conservation and management. Includes teaching strategies and a…

Argues that middle- and high-school students benefit from class discussions of personal and societal values and the role they play in decision making. Presents two stories of real-life difficult choices and their consequences. Presents brief descriptions of five current controversial issues (with suggested questions) for classroom discussion to…

Tests the validity of the Principle-Centered Living Survey (PCLS), which measures principle-centeredness. Results from a convenience sample (n=232) indicate that the PCLS possesses excellent internal consistency and construct validity. (JPS)

Discusses the role of moral education and values clarification in the curriculum, highlighting how educators' morality influences the implementation of values-centered curricula. The article advocates curricula in which students learn to critically examine their daily choices and proposes that a moral education helps students learn to think…

Argues that interpersonal effectiveness arises from a life centered on universal principles, that effective outdoor leaders must recognize the basis and interpersonal consequences of behavioral decisions, and that, therefore, adventure leadership training should incorporate a guided self-examination of one's own principles as part of training in…