Discusses the dilemma of how to respond to student papers advancing morally repugnant positions. Advocates conceptualizing writing as an ethical act and connecting ethics and revision. Describes briefly how three such student papers were handled. (SR)

The role of context was examined in middle school students' descriptions of barriers to caring in four domains: self, intimate others, acquaintances, and strangers. Interviewed students expressed that nothing would stop them caring for themselves or intimates, while lack of reciprocity and fear of violence would stop them caring for others,…

Discusses a study that applied a "zigzag" problem-solving sequence, based in Jungian personality theory, to Jane Yolen's book "Children of the Wolf." Suburban Pennsylvania fifth graders' actual responses to characters' dilemmas suggest that this model can help elementary teachers engage students in moral reasoning associated…

In the Fall of 1994, the Computer Science Department at Coastal Carolina University (Conway, South Carolina implemented a formal ethics component in the introductory computer science course required of all majors. Prior to the introduction of this ethics component into the curriculum, a survey of ethical attitudes was administered to all computer…

This paper thematizes the significance of postmodernism for the teaching of values in public schools. It elucidates the challenge of postmodernism and develops constructive proposals in response to its significance for teaching values. The operative contention is that a critical engagement with the challenge of postmodernism provides an…

A student leader and an administrator discuss the worth of values education to students of 1980, who are part of an increasingly relativistic, unsettled society in which economic matters have assumed primacy. (Author/MSE)

Assessed classroom strategies using literature-based lesson models to facilitate empathy development in kindergarten and second grade. Concluded that commitment to core values such as justice, honesty, tolerance, and concern and respect for others should not be decontextualized but should be developed through direct personal experience. (Author/KB)

Formal efforts at value inculcation or value clarification cannot succeed until the social and professional ethics of the school itself are consistent with professed standards. (Editor)

Emphasizes the ethical aims of liberal education, and proposes several ways to provide ethical instruction through the teaching of literature. (MM)

Values education is a controversial topic in many schools today. A study designed to determine the effect of values-oriented courses on student attitudes revealed that students' values showed no significant change as a consequence of the course, and that adolescents' values largely reflect those of their parents. (TE)

Discusses the educational principles and methods of the medieval philosopher and theologian, St. Anselm. Educational practices of medieval monastic schools, town schools, private tutors, and pastoral teaching are discussed. Available from: Taylor & Francis Ltd., P.O. Box 9137, Church Street Station, New York, N.Y. 10049. (Author/DB)

Ethical behavior, particularly among young people, is of increasing concern to various segments of society. Before this or any behavior can be influenced, an understanding is needed of the factors that shape it, including social influences, cognitive and emotional factors, and attitudes. The purpose of this study was to examine students' knowledge…

Suggests that serious problems exist with a moral education program built around Lawrence Kohlberg's approach of analyzing predesigned moral dilemmas. The dilemmas are often unrealistic. Although students usually try to find alternatives to the situation, as one would do in real life, teachers discourage them from doing so. (Author/KC)

The University of Victoria program at Matsqui Institution is based on Kohlberg's theory of moral development. The replicability of the program is discussed, and analyzed in terms of relations with the institution, type of courses, program climate, and staffing. The necessity for developing student identity is emphasized. (MSE)

Concludes that adolescents who were taught about their rights, as described in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, showed higher self-esteem, higher levels of perceived peer and teacher support, and indicated more support for the rights of others than comparison students. (DAJ)