The rationale for values education is reviewed and it is suggested that the language of values education does not belong in education. The authors state that teaching is an activity that takes aggressive and direct action on students' opinions and beliefs, not for the sake of their values, but for their characters. (LBH)

Explores the relationship between literary criticism and ethics by analyzing two shifts regarding ethics in literary criticism: (1) a taboo against engaging in ethical criticism, encouraged during the 1930s to 1950s; and (2) the undermining of that taboo, caused by the eruption of social problems concerning race, sex, and class. (MM)

Presents an overview of articles written for this issue. Discusses what it means to focus on feminist perspectives of moral education and development. Suggests that conclusions about gender differences in morality are affected by methodology and that multiple methodologies and diverse samples should be employed. (DH)

Examines inconsistencies in individual nurses' decisions about ethical situations and their justifications in the light of changes due to contemporary feminism and professionalization of the nursing role. Suggests empirical identification of ambiguities identified by practitioners be added as a component of professional education. (Author/DH)

Teacher educators, the author argues, should raise the ethical consciousness of preservice teachers to the multiple moral realities of the work world. Teacher educators should foster teachers' abilities to develop strategies and skills for diagnosing ethical issues and making sound ethical judgments. Examples are presented. (MT)

The writings of Peters on moral education span a period of about 20 years. Considered here are his recommendations, particularly in terms of practical assistance than can be derived from them for those interested in moral education. (Author/RM)

This book discusses how students and practitioners should take into account four ethics paradigms to help solve authentic dilemmas. These paradigms are the ethic of justice, ethic of care, ethic of critique, and ethic of the profession. The book's purposes include demonstrating the application of these different paradigms through the discussion…

By focusing the research on Kant's theory of moral education, this Chinese language thesis aims to inquire into the essential nature of morality and the incentive to moral practice to arrive at the basic principles of cultivation of moral personality. The thesis first analyzes and makes a comparison among four schools of moral philosophy: social…

College faculty members should try to combine the college curricular and extracurricular activities of their students. (Editor)

The view that links a subjectivist view in ethics to an open approach to moral education is challenged, as well as the converse view that an objectivist ethical view entails a conformist approach. A liberal theory of moral education need not be morally neutral. (Author/RM)

Three Christian documents, the "Fourth R" (the "Durham Report" on religious education), "Teaching Christian Ethics," and "The Child in the Church," are used to show that Christians can help young people consider issues in moral education in a balanced way and, thus, arrive at their own conclusions. (Author/RM)

Proposes that college level ethics instructors and psychological researchers collaborate for the sake of improving ethics courses, evaluating programs, and advancing research. Journal available from The Hastings Center, 360 Broadway, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706. (AM)

Addresses the advantages of using a business structure in the classroom; the purpose of discussing ethics in the classroom; the design of a classroom business; the methodology needed to implement the activity; an assessment of outcomes; and the results of the exercise. (SR)

Discusses nihilism as a characteristic of contemporary discourse regarding morality and moral education. Examines this discourse in light of Emmanuel Levinas' account of the primacy of ethics: absolute responsibility in the face of the other, of the asymmetry of relations to each other. (CAJ)

Discusses whether virtue can be taught in college, asserting that virtue is relative and tradition bound. Difficulties in answering this question include lack of adequate definitions of terms, overwhelming influence of Christian and Western approaches, the "unvirtue" experienced by many learners, and students' innate resistance to the…