The development of democratic values as preparation for citizenship is liberal education's true function. Values education should include these forms of inquiry: values analysis, awareness, assessment, alteration, and affirmation. Students can test values against the criteria of consistency, coherence, duration, adequacy, comprehensiveness,…

The core curriculum of a civic liberal education should combine the values of a stable cultural pluralism and political unity. Students should undertake scholarly and critical study of the underlying civic principles and values necessary for generating an informed and effective citizenry. (Author/MSE)

Innovative approaches to values/ethics education in higher education suggest renewed commitment to human values. Two models of values education are values-across-the-curriculum, which assumes that values education is a responsibility for the institution's education programs as a whole; and civic education, built on a conception of the habits…