The papers that comprise this document were delivered at the 1973 conference "The Development of Human Values through Sports." It is stated in the introduction that the participants are of the belief that values can be developed through sport, but such development is not automatic. The book reports on some of the available research on values in…

The National Conference on Moral/Citizenship Education (MCE) was the major activity of Planning for Moral/Citizenship Education, a year-long national planning effort. The primary purpose of the conference was to develop MCE recommendations from as wide a base as possible concerning research, development, and dissemination, with the ultimate goal…

The compiled proceedings of an annual meeting of the Far Western Philosophy of Education Society focus on the theme of the future. A presidential address suggests definitions of "future" and investigates how philosophy of education professionals can participate and contribute to futures. Several of the twenty-four papers, all reproduced with…

A conference on research relating to how children acquire their systems of values and morality was held with the overall objective toward improving the quality of human life through greater scientific understanding of the developmental processes and the support of research on these complex problems. Participants stressed that many child-rearing…

The bulk of this conference report is made up of three papers. In the first, J. A. Riffel argues that there are two polar orientations to the problem of evaluation in education--the independent empirical and the participatory problem-solving. To date, education has been dominated by the former approach. Only the latter allows for a variety of…

The document presents a report of a national conference on education and citizenship which focused upon how to help students become responsible and effective citizens of a more responsive society. The document is presented in five chapters. Chapter I presents a historical review of civic education from colonial days to the present. Chapter II…

This is the proceedings from a workshop that focused on the capacity of religious systems around the world to deal with environmental problems. Included in this publication are an introduction, the workshop schedule, a participant roster, and five papers presented at the workshop. Topics covered in the papers include: Religious Reconstruction for…

This paper is chapter 4 of the proceedings of the National Working Conference on Emerging Issues in Environmental Education. It concerns a survey sent to 300 U. S. environmental educators to determine their attitudes toward nine previously identified emerging issues in environmental education. The survey was sent before the conference to working…

Papers presented at the National Conference on Environmental Education, December 1969, and digests of the discussion group reports are included in this conference report. The papers examine the identification of major ecological concepts and values appropriate to school curricula (kindergarten to grade 12), methods by which environmental concepts…

The conference provided a forum where educators, education officers from the state of Delaware, citizen education groups, representatives of public service organizations, and members of the citizen education component of Research for Better Schools (RBS) could exchange ideas related to the conference theme, "Developing Competent Citizens in a…

This paper, presented at a special meeting held in Tehran, discusses the values and manifestations of culture in books for children and presents some practical suggestions for maintaining cultural values. (JM)

Over 250 participants of the conference spent four days examining the implications of human interaction with social and physical environments for environmental education. These individuals came from 36 states and Ontario, sharing a common concern for environmental attitudes, ethics, values, and their communication. This publication contains…

This paper contains a series of speeches given at the Sixth International Round Table for the Advancement of Counseling Conference and Seminar. The aim of the conference was to provide a forum for interdisciplinary sutdy of questions relating to guidance and counseling at school and university levels as well as in other areas representing…

Discusses a report of 12 of the nation's leading environmental groups which identifies nine environmental problem areas and proposes 75 specific actions for approaching present and foreseeable problems. (MLH)

Convened to offer a forum for discussion of values education to over 100 representatives of public and private schools, the conference explored moral dilemmas, educational trends, cognitive moral development, and educational objectives. The keynote address by values education exponent Dr. Edwin Fenton (Director, Carnegie-Mellon Education Center,…