Social studies educators in the coming years should concentrate on the humanizing elements of the curriculum to ensure that programs are social and humane. (MM)

Whether moral education is included in school curriculums or not, the problem of hidden values education will still exist. (MM)

While agreeing with Scriven's exposition of the cognitive approach to moral education, the author disagrees with and comments on three points: the argument against developmentalists, morality and rational justification, and the affective aspect of moral argument. (DW)

The current interest in values and social conventions stems mainly from an uneasy feeling about people whose behavior fails to live up to the social conventions that are upheld in society. Many people are calling for values and social conventions to be reasserted and education is expected to make an important contribution to this process.…

An experience in values clarification about euthanasia is described. (PBS)

This publication about moral education is a conversation between a university professor of religion and the chairman of a high school social studies department. As part of the National Humanities Faculty Why Series, the book is intended to help students, teachers, and citizens maintain and improve their intellectual vigor and human awareness and…

This paper provides an overview of the Perry Scheme for perceiving knowledge and values during the college years, and examines its use as a guide for counseling and educational practice in higher education. Paper presented at the Chicago, 1975 convention of the American Psychological Association. (Author)

Suggests that a reexamination of the studies and research of developmental psychologists Kohlberg and Perry is needed in any examination of values education. Parallels and contrasts two theorists, and discusses the use of their schemes in studies of moral development in young adults and the phenomenon of moral regression. (Author/SMR)

This paper presents J. P. Shaver's model of rational decision making based on moral values and makes specific suggestions for implementing the model in health education instruction. (MM)

Describes the decline of the traditional discussion centers in home, school and church and the mushrooming of literature and groups centering around values clarification. (Author)

The affective and developmental approaches to moral education are described as inadequate, while the cognitive approach based on moral knowledge, moral reasoning, and the study of ethics is described as defensible and preferable, even though difficult to implement in public schools. (DW)

This paper analyzes and raises questions about two existing moral education programs, and suggests directions for future research in this area. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association Convention, Chicago, 1975. (Author/BP)

Offers eight lessons to be learned from school sports activities that the author considers more important than winning, including how to win and lose, compete, cooperate, participate, work toward a goal, develop self-discipline, sacrifice, and develop new skills. (JBM)

Moral education is woven so tightly into the fibers of the public school curricula that educators must systematically plan moral education programs that rely on both the natural propensities of their students and the material presently employed in the schools. (JD)