All adolescents have leadership potential. There are three stages of youth leadership development: awareness, interaction, and mastery. Transactional and transformational leadership provide a bridge between youth leadership development and character education. Therein lie the qualities that all parents and educators want to instill in youngsters.…

Argues that technological advances with digital photo enhancement computer programs raise serious questions concerning ethics in student publications, and that instructors and advisers have an obligation to teach students about the appropriate, ethical use of these programs. Outlines specific issues and reminds students that it is wrong to enhance…

Discusses a student discipline problem involving a substitute teacher and a student who used foul language in class. The teacher responded with a firm, but venomous, threat that provoked a response from the vice principal's office, but not from the boy's parents. Advocates on-the-spot ethical instruction to maintain credibility and an effective…

Reports a study of a connectedness' versus separateness' orientation in adolescents' reasoning about friendship, loyalty, and understanding of political and social order. Conflict resolution for students having a connectedness orientation focused on negotiation; in separateness orientation, the focus was on codes of conduct. Adolescent males…

The study attempted to determine which ethical characteristics of workers were viewed by vocational educators as important for their students and if teachers representing the five vocational areas selected the same characteristics. Results indicated that reliability, willingness to work, and willingness to learn are highly valued across all…

The incidence of crime in Canada is growing rapidly. There is a desperate need for preventative measures. A systematic program of moral education could reduce the incidence of criminal behavior. Moral education could be more effective and less expensive than treatment and punitive methods. (Author/BEF)

Basic ethical issues need to be clarified with regard to drug education curriculum development. Personal autonomy and human dignity should be the preeminent values adhered to when drug education curricula are planned and presented. (Author)

Outlines a theory of drama as ethical education. Discusses how the concept of positioning can complicate the view of the ethical dimension of ongoing interactions in and out of role. Reveals how dialogic sequencing can create conditions in which students may begin to re-examine the ethical assumptions of their discourses. (PM)

A teacher integrates character education into content lessons by lacing a "character cocktail" with community, manners, and ethical decision-making. (MLF)

This article reviews the past research and principles for facilitating moral growth through group discussion and the theories of judgment-action discrepancies. An intervention model is suggested which utilizes actual moral misbehaviors as the basis for both moral discussion and behavioral intervention. (Author/DB)

The study was designed to increase student commitment to Christian education and was conducted in a church youth group of 150 students in grades 6-12, located in a moderate-sized county. The Wednesday evening program for 6th-12th-grade students was attended by a larger number of youth each week than the Sunday A.M. christian education program.…

This book presents the findings of a study of the moral character of the U.S. generation in the 15 to 30 age group. The research results were from a comprehensive study of ethical attitudes and behaviors in the United States. During 1991 and 1992, a survey of nearly 9,000 young people and adults was conducted. Survey topics included value…

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

Moral education in boarding schools is the topic of this publication which includes summaries of the proceedings of the Bicentennial Summer Institute sponsored by Phillips Exeter Academy in June 1978. Interspersed throughout are passages from a journal kept by a participant in the Institute. The contextual and didactic approaches to moral…

Reviews Rosemary Sutcliffe's "The Sword and the Circle," a contemporary reworking of the Arthurian legend. Suggests that it fails by comparison with the versions of Tennyson and Malory because it depicts Arthur as a pawn of magicians rather than a duly elected leader working with his subjects to create a just society. (RBW)