The American dream is a dream filled with inexhaustible resources, boundless opportunities, and untold wealth. Fueled by the "psychology of affluence"--a social attitude that encourages us to want and expect more of everything--the dream equates quality of life with material wealth and assumes that our fulfillment in life is independent…

Voluntarily initiated student verbal behaviors originating during classroom communication related to values awareness are identified, defined, and illustrated by examples. These behaviors are: (1) focus setting; (2) reporting course of action; (3) reporting value judgment; (4) reporting value; (5) reporting prediction; (6) reporting data; and (7)…

How schools can be restructured to make them sources of ethical experiences is discussed in this article; responses to the author's point of view by other writers are printed at the end of the article. (JD)

Schools should not teach values directly, but education can never be value-free. Schools can best promote moral responsibility by treating all students fairly, providing good role models, using discipline to help students, balancing competition with cooperation, and providing opportunities to students for responsible and altruistic behavior. (TE)

Liberty, equality, justice, compassion, truth, beauty, responsibility, cooperation, humility, progress, decency--teachers urge their students to learn about these great ideas from the great literature in the hope they will move American society to be more controlled by them. The alternative is a society concerned only with self-interest. (MLW)

Moral judgment has not been crystallized by the age of 25. After participating in a 45-hour sexology course in which they discussed moral dilemmas and were introduced to arguments of a higher stage, 36 adults increased test scores in both general and sexual moral judgments. (Author/RM)

Building good character in today's youth is an adult issue because children learn values from adults. Adults must demonstrate the core values: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. Camps have developed expertise in character development and can provide leadership in the community in character education.…

Suggests that young people seeking intimacy often settle for sex and need to be guided toward discovering healthy, unselfish intimacy. Discusses an approach to sex education founded on Christian sexual values. (PAA)

Suggests that music instruction include teaching ethics and values. Argues that performing ensembles are a powerful tool for imparting values such as integrity, self-esteem, cooperation, and tolerance. Includes charts for evaluating student behavior without including ethics and values as part of an academic grade. (DK)

Peace education has been recognized as an important aspect of social education for the past three decades. The critical literature as well as official documents, however, have given little attention to its philosophical foundations. This essay explores these foundations in the ethics of (1) virtue, (2) consequentialism, (3) aesthetics, (4)…

In this article, the author emphasizes decision making rather than mere remembering as a tool for teaching social studies. Decision making should be emphasized at two levels: at the level of deciding what a group of descriptive data means, how these data may be summarized or generalized, what principles they suggest; and also at the level of…

The social problems triggered by Internet are legion. Computer games and such high-tech achievements of the Internet that used to be regarded as "angels" are today frequently playing the role of "demons." As the times advance, Internet ethics have become a new challenge facing educational workers. Today, when our country is…

This study discusses how children make use of the content in play to get a superior status position in their peer-culture and looks at some implications for values education. Observations of children age three to six years were made during their free playtime in pre-school, and both field notes and videotape recording were used for data…

The importance of motivational beliefs and, more specifically, religion, is identified as central for both citizenship and citizenship education. Whether they take an expressly religious form, or appear in a purportedly more open form, such as faith or world view, beliefs are at the core of human being. The tendency to speak more of shared values…

The book explores how morality is constructed in school, with the aim of demystifying the process of constructing morality so that it may become a more overt, thoughtful, and purposeful aspect of schooling. The book's chapters are: (1) "Moral Journeys"; (2) "Engaging Moral Complexity"; (3) "Setting the Stage: Green End…