An examination of the ways moral education was taught in elementary public schools during the first three decades of the century suggests that moral education should be (1) indirect--not taught as a isolated subject; (2) comprehensive--include all aspects of school life; and (3) broadly conceived--moral education is multifaceted. (RM)

The teachings of the Victorian Sunday school reflected an evangelical subculture that had become comfortably adapted to the world around it. The social values of the middle and lower classes took their place beside traditional virtues of piety, charity, and honesty. (Author/KC)

Examines the teaching of ethics in the "Engineering Publicity" program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1920s. Suggests that students may be empowered to enter and transform their professions by examining ethical critiques of science, technology, and business within and among the professions they will enter rather than by…

Believing that the 3-educational system of Yugoslavia can be understood only by considering its development in terms of the history of its three constituent republics, the author examines the educational histories of Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia before 1918. In spite of all measures introduced to promote literacy and education, the people had not…

John Dewey and Emile Durkheim are philosophical giants in the field of moral education. This paper compares and contrasts their respective visions for moral education and contextualizes the comparison in the profound intellectual and social changes modernity was casting throughout the world. They were transitional figures that attempted to make…

Few sociologists and fewer educators have recognized Emile Durkheim's significant contribution to the sociology of education. His major theories of education are discussed under three main groupings--education developing as a social process, education's function in the socialization of the young, and education in the development of morality.…

Ethical instruction in U.S. schools has had a circuitous history, but it may be having a resurgence. Various trends and surveys are reported for both America and the U.S.S.R. If moral education and ethics courses have healing power, then they should be supported and nurtured. (MLW)

The historical and contemporary background to the Union of Free-Thinkers' attempts to gain acceptance for a new syllabus in moral education in the Finnish schools is described. An outline is given of their linguistic approach to moral education and their attempts to promote a positive identity among nonbelievers. (Author/AM)

Encouraging schools to shoulder the responsibility of teaching personal ethics, these authors outline various teaching methods for the study of ethical questions. (Editor)

To make public schools as inclusive as possible, educators continually attempted to broaden the cultural basis of school morality, first to a pan-Protestant, nonsectarian religion in the mid-nineteenth century, then to increasingly secular versions in the early twentieth century, and recently to a more pluralistic and morally relativistic stance.…

We welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2014, taking place in Madrid, Spain, from 28 to 30 of June, 2014. Education, as an important right in our contemporary world, began since we exist. Knowledge and skills were passed by adults to the young, and cultures began to extend their experiences through various…

The authors present the need for a comprehensive, integrative theory of correctional education. This article applies the paradigm concept to correctional education (CE) in North America. It has five parts: (1) background, (2) paradigm processes, (3) the U.S. CE paradigm, (4) the Canadian CE paradigm, and (5) conclusion. (Author/CT)

Reviews the life and works of Jean Paul Richter, a German educator of the early 1800s, who is best known for his book, "Levana," a once widely read book on teaching young children. (JDH)