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Neilson, Wendy; Brink, Ashlie – Kairaranga, 2008
In schools today inclusion involves a challenge to attitudes and expectations within educational communities. "The New Zealand Disability Strategy" (Minister for Disability Issues, 2001), is a guide for government action to promote a more inclusive society. Out of its 15 Objectives, Objective 1 encourages and educates the community and…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Role Models, Inclusion, Mainstreaming
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Byford, Jeffrey; Lennon, Sean – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2008
The conceptualized view of American Democracy and civic values does not enjoy a standardized and uniform belief system throughout the nation's constituency. Many Americans appear to have differing interpretations of freedoms and rights; expressing an individualized view that appears to be ever morphing or changing due to numerous variances such as…
Descriptors: United States Government (Course), Socioeconomic Status, Democratic Values, High School Students
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Matchett, Nancy J. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2008
All colleges teach ethics across their undergraduate curricula, yet relatively few institutions do so deliberately. That is, few colleges make explicit attempts to coordinate or integrate the various ethical lessons their students might be learning. This does not mean that most colleges are bad for students' ethical development; research shows…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Academic Freedom, Educational Opportunities, Ethics
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Efron, Sara Efrat – Curriculum Inquiry, 2008
The responsibility for addressing morality and moral education in the current moral climate is a daunting task for conscientious educators. What educational response can extricate us from the debilitating feelings of hopelessness and helplessness as we are confronted by horrific terrorist actions, controversial use of military might, displays of…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Jews, Personal Autonomy, Moral Values
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Revell, Lynn – Religious Education, 2008
This article addresses teachers' understanding of spiritual development in public and religious schools in Boston and Chicago. It examines how teachers define spiritual development in different educational contexts and looks at the way they relate spirituality to a number of factors including community, identity, and character. The data from the…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Religious Education, Public Schools
Moon, Paul J. – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this conceptual paper was to propose an ultimate goal and purpose for the field and practice of adult education. A literature search was conducted to delineate historical philosophies of education that inform the current state of education, including adult education. Furthermore, building upon the rudiments of adult education extant…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Role of Education, Adult Learning, Foundations of Education
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Wolfson, Jay – Death Studies, 2006
One of the most controversial legal and political events in the death of Theresa Marie Schiavo was the passage, by the Florida Legislature, of what become known as "Terri's Law," allowing the Florida Governor to replace her feeding and hydration tube, and requiring the appointment of a special guardian ad intern who reported to the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, State Legislation, Ethics, Death
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Kristjansson, Kristjan – Educational Theory, 2006
A recent trend in moral education, social and emotional learning, incorporates the mantra of emotional intelligence (EI) as a key element in an extensive program of character building. In making his famous claim that the good life would have to include appropriate emotions, Aristotle obviously considered the schooling of emotions to be an…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Educational Philosophy, Ethical Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Smedley, Audrey – American Psychologist, 2006
In this article, the author responds to M. J. Zyphur's comments on the original article by A. Smedley and B. D. Smedley. Race, as people live and understand it, inhabits a dimension of reality that transcends biology and cannot be reduced to genes, chromosomes, or even phenotypes. A biological or genetic view of race cannot encompass the lived…
Descriptors: Race, Genetics, Biodiversity, Evolution
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Yi, Lian-yun; Peng, Jing – Frontiers of Education in China, 2006
The actual effect is a big problem in current school moral education. By analyzing the problems in the theory and practice of the current school moral education, the author points out that the reason is that, for a long time, the meaning of morality has been dissimilated, and moral education is considered as a kind of knowledge input and…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Asian Culture, Moral Values, Values Education
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Odochao, Jonni; Nakashima, Douglas; Vaddhanaphuti, Chayan – International Social Science Journal, 2006
In Karen culture, the family is traditionally the basic unit for the education of the child. In the early 1970s, when Jonni Odochao began to notice that children could not relate to their elders or respect them, he surmised that the problem stemmed from the modern education system and its increasing influence upon youth values, behaviour and ways…
Descriptors: Children, Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Social Values
Kvitka, Joan Kent – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Over three decades of teaching, the author has come to a deep understanding of the commitment she made in swearing her loyalty to a governing system dedicated to the virtues of democracy and equality for all--both those within the diverse society and those across a global mosaic of cultures. Every day in the classroom, teachers and students alike…
Descriptors: Patriotism, Democracy, Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility
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Yust, Karen-Marie – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2006
Christian camps claim to create spaces where children and youth are more likely to encounter God and experience spiritual living, and yet contemporary camp ministries in the United States struggle to distinguish their environments from the cultural contexts in which their campers usually reside. This article reflects on the practices of 23 diverse…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Christianity, Cultural Influences
Facing History and Ourselves, 2007
For 30 years, Facing History and Ourselves has been engaging students in the study of the history of events that led to the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, leading students from diverse backgrounds to examine racism and prejudice, making a connection between history, and the moral choices they confront in their own lives in order to…
Descriptors: World Problems, Citizenship Education, World History, Racial Bias
Curriculum Review, 2007
The Search Institute, a nonprofit research organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota, defines developmental assets as good things everyone needs to be happy in life, such as a supportive family, a caring neighborhood, integrity, self-esteem, resistance skills, conflict resolution skills, constructive activities and a sense of purpose. "A…
Descriptors: Justice, Integrity, Conflict Resolution, Student Development
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