The author's response to a critique by Boyd and Bogdan of "Values and Teaching: Working with Values in the Classroom" (Raths, Harmin and Simon, 1966, 1978) states that their interpretation of values clarification is dubious and identifies where errors may have occurred. (MT)

Cultural analysts have indicated that American culture is going through a significant transition in values. The views of three of these analysts are reviewed and implications are drawn for counselors. (Author)

Criticizes the "great tradition" article (EA 519 521, this issue), pointing out that the cause-and-effect relationship between values clarification and the increase in juvenile problems is tenuous.(MD)

Discusses an educational protocol conducted with a group of older women in religious life. Sixty women, aged 60 and above, members of a Roman Catholic religious order, participated in a series of educational workshops. They explored their own personal growth and development through exercises in values clarification, lifeline, and life review. (CT)

Examined the effects of a short term, church-based program in relation to three program goals: increased sex information, heightened self-esteem, and clarity of personal sexual values. Using a pre-posttest, control group design, significant positive change in sex information and clarity of personal sexual values were found. (Author/BL)

Outlines and gives school district experience with three approaches to moral education--fundamental, developmental, and values clarification. (IRT)

This issue explores how competitive intercollegiate athletics affects both admissions practices and the nature of academic community at private colleges and universities that practice selective admission. It is based on a roundtable that took place in February 2003. It is clear that the athletic profile of such selective campuses is considerably…

Cleveland State University's graduate level values clarification introductory course aids students in (1) explaining the rationale and objectives of values clarification, (2) clarifying their own values concerning personal and professional decisions, and (3) implementing the process in their own school education. (MB)

Discusses facilitation of deep reflection on personal meaning as a critical educational practice in experiential learning settings. Describes the "perspective interview," a semiformal one-to-one conversation in which the leader or facilitator proceeds through a series of questions designed to uncover the respondent's beliefs, values,…

Today's "just say no" approach to moral education is as simplistic as the values clarification emphasis of the 1960s and 1970s. One solution is to combine the best approaches of past decades. The Comprehensive Values Education model is progressive and all-embracing in content, methodology, and application throughout school and community.…

Outdoor educators should be doing more to help students get beyond the manufactured "wonderland" sham to experience the lifelong joys of wonder. This means that educators must develop their own vocabulary and that of their students around words that indicate values associated with experiences. Appropriate language is an important tool in…

The "Adelaide Declaration on National Goals for Schooling in the Twenty-First Century" provides a mandate for discussion of the spiritual within secular state schooling, but this discussion has never occurred. This is a serious omission given what could be called an "undercurrent of concern" for the ways in which young people…

Criticizes the values clarification approach for avoiding the structure of values, for allowing judgmental activites, for embracing moral relativism, and for not being founded in theory. (DW)

This handbook for teachers presents strategies for helping students think about and make value judgments in a broad range of value realms. The 80 activity models presented have been used for grade levels ranging from upper elementary to high school. Chapter I, the introduction, discusses a unified approach to values. A definition of values is…

Outlines considerations to determine if a particular school will benefit from employing values clarification techniques. (MLF)