Reports on study of teachers in inservice program designed to adapt and modify curriculum unit on Jewish moral texts for their school. Describes factors that determined which parts of unit would be modified and which would be adopted as written. Found that most teachers used the materials to open students' minds to the inherent moral messages in…

Discusses Gilligan's explanation of the distinction between justice and care. Describes how she contrasts the two notions and explores the possibility of encompassing care within Piagetian developmental theory. Reviews Gilligan's position on justice and care as different forms of moral judgment. Examines different interpretations of universality…

Bringing children to have respect for others is generally regarded as a central task of moral and social education. In this article one particular view of what "respect for others" means and how it is justified is examined critically and found to be unsatisfactory. (Editor)

Criticizes Piaget's theory of moral development. The author argues that Piaget's equilibrium concept does not adequately account for moral development. Because no evidence supports the theoretical sequence of moral developmental stages, he concludes that Piaget's theory is not a useful foundation for the design of moral education curriculum. (AM)

Past work in the field is examined at four levels: the social structural, the institutional, that of action and the social psychological in both the psychological and sociological traditions. Moral choice is analyzed into three components with each component applied to moral education in an attempt to indicate worthwhile future directions for…

Relates therapeutic outcomes to moral development. Suggests that by addressing the problem of alienation, individuals evolve into moral agents who begin to perceive themselves, others, and the world in new ways. Warns that a person who experiences this moral restoration faces societal conditions which work against therapeutic change. (KO)

Observes that the Kohlbergian model of morality does not give a good account of the ways in which people make moral decisions in their everyday lives. Argues that a functional model of moral judgment and moral behavior derived from evolutionary theory may supply a better account of real-life morality. (DSK)

This article reports on two values education programmes currently available for UK schools, which are associated with two Hindu-related organisations, the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University and the Sathya Sai Service Organisation, UK. Attention is paid to the development of the programmes, the educational context in which they seek to embed…

In the Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle sets down a scattered and fractional account of the development of moral virtue within young people. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum defends Aristotle's neglect of a systematic account of moral development and argues that more complex expressions of character-building, such as learning to expose oneself to proper…

This paper explores moral reasoning within the framework of contemporary cultural theory, in which moral functioning is action mediated by tools (such as socially available discourses) within a social and cultural context. This cultural model of a "dialogic moral self" challenges many of the assumptions inherent in the individualistic Kantian…

Discusses a previous study of the operational and sociomoral reasoning of 70 congenitally deaf children. Reports that, although the results indicated no differences between the hearing and nonhearing students on the development of sociomoral reasoning, the researchers still advocated intervention programs. (CFR)

Responds to criticism of research into the development of sociomoral reasoning of deaf children. Defends research methodology and asserts that the criticism does not accurately interpret their hypotheses. Concludes that their recommended intervention program also would be helpful with sensory unimpaired children. (CFR)

This paper describes an experiment in classroom moral education and reports its results. (Author)

Author talked about what studies of the psychological development of the child suggest about his natural conception of justice. (Author/RK)

This article briefly describes and accounts for the present resurgence of interest in moral education in New Zealand. (Editor)