The purpose of this article is to explain how a means/ends test can be adapted for the school environment. Public school officials can use a means/ends test to document an analysis of whether dress-code policies will be effective in diminishing risks to the health, safety, or morality of the school population. Elements of policy evaluation--ends,…

Recent neuropsychological research suggests that intuition and emotion play a role in our reasoning when we are confronted with moral dilemmas. Incorporating intuition and emotion into moral reflection is a rather new idea in the educational world, where rational reasoning is preferred. To develop a teaching and learning strategy to address this…

Higher education, as well as the larger society appears to be experiencing a serious decline in civility. In this article the author presents the case for introducing civility education in first-year general education courses. After citing some of the research documenting both faculty and student perceptions of incivility in the university and…

Piagetian moral judgment problems were simplified and tested on first grade children to ascertain whether the simplification would affect the subjects' perceptions of intentionality and punishment. (JMB)

General criteria for assessing the varieties of expertise involved in morality were sketched. (Author/RK)

To a large extent adolescent hypocrisy is a function of those expectations of adults and peers which conflict with the adolescent's own feelings and desires. Several different forms of adolescent hypocrisy are distinguished and the factors which induce them are described. (Editor)

This paper identified several powerful pieces of literature written for young children and used successfully by parents, kin-folk, baby-sitters, and teachers, analyzed each book to uncover salient solutions which stimulate empathy, and inferred characteristics of each stage of the unfolding of empathy. (Author/RK)

This article outlines conflicting views in the philosophy of history concerning the possibility and desirability of using moral judgments. (Editor)

This study investigates the relationship between intellectual development and moral development in order to provide additional descriptions of the relationship based on a Piagetian type conservation task and a Piagetian type paired-story situation involving intentional behaviors and final outcomes. (JH)

The work of developmental psychologists, Kohlberg and Piaget, is used to summarize characteristics of moral thinking at the elementary levels in order to help teachers encourage their students to the next higher level. (JH)

A statement of how the media influences moral development. (HB)

Research and theory in the area of moral development is critically reviewed. Questions are posed about the theoretical basis of Kohlberg's six stages and the nature of the evidence to date and the limitations of knowledge in the area are examined. (Author/RC)

Kohlberg's system of moral judgment development has some important links with Piaget's work on moral judgment. The ways in which Kohlberg extends or departs from Piaget's system of moral growth are examined. (Editor/RK)

Declares that Kohlberg fails to consider morality outside of Kantian terms, fails to take "good-boy" morality seriously, is weak on affective morality, and fails to consider habit training in growth. (DW)

This paper summarizes the author's research on the role of empathy in personality development. (Author)