This research aims to compare the social studies curricula of Thailand and New York State, USA, analyze their similarities and differences, and propose guidelines for improving the Thai social studies curriculum. The study employed a qualitative research methodology, using documentary analysis of the Thai Basic Education Core Curriculum B.E. 2551…

Principal educators' and policy makers' predominant expectation from school principals to serve as instructional leaders--who engage primarily in a wide range of activities that clearly focus on improving teaching and learning for all students--has scarcely been applied in practice by principals in today's schools. Researchers have found several…

Author explained her objective of teaching a workshop stressing the developmental nature of morality as well as acquainting a group of teachers with Kohlberg's dilemmas and their own. (Author/RK)

Discussed a program whose goals are to increase people's capacity to resolve personal and interpersonal values conflicts. (Author/RK)

Article discussed rationale, goals and criteria for an effective values education program. (Editor/RK)

This is a study of the way in which moral education was added to the Bavarian curriculum in 1972. Attention is drawn to certain inconsistencies, and it is suggested that these reflect the ambiguous position of the school in a parliamentary democracy whose commitment to pluralism remains partial. (Editor/RK)

In examining the role of values in the curriculum, the author raises four problems: (1) Can one justify trying to change student values at all? (2) Can one justify one particular set of values? (3) Can one demonstrate the occurrence of change in student values due to the educational factor? and (4) Can one measure student values? The goal, in…

Author described and designed a program in human development and education that allowed him to explore the relationship between rugged environmental experience and moral growth and development. (Author/RK)

An original purpose of higher education in the United States was personal development through acculturation to the classics and to moral principles. Other purposes, those of economics, political orientation, and service, have frequently overshadowed that original goal. It may be that higher education institutions have neglected personal…

Discussed the need to reach agreement on precise objectives in sex education. (Author/RK)

According to Peters, there are five procedural principles crucial for moral education: worthwhile activities; consideration of interests; freedom; respect for persons; and truth-telling. This article argues that these principles are not critical for moral education and fail to address important issues, such as the question "What ought I to do?"…

Service learning in higher education can be a powerful method of citizen education, by building students' concrete civic skills in the areas of intellectual understanding, communication and problem solving, and civic attitudes of judgment and imagination. A basic condition is that broad definitions of service and citizenship be assumed, and used…

Discusses student criticism of higher education. Responds in the context of moral questions. Argues that education is about the development of a moral imagination. Suggests that students be encouraged to locate their own questions in material to be studied. Concludes that through storytelling teachers and students can find common ground as well as…

The role of the college or university in facilitating the ethical and moral development of college students is addressed. The views of Kohlberg, Perry, and others who have studied ethical and moral development are briefly reviewed. These psychologists suggest that there is a hierarchy or continuum for the development of moral reasoning. Colleges…

As part of the research for a dissertation on composition at Bryn Mawr College during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of student essays and daily themes were read. Over and over students affirmed the essential worth and significance of events in their daily lives and of their college education in general. More often than not,…