This study investigated children's conceptions of death from a developmental perspective. Subjects were 170 children from grades K-4. Children were tested for conservation and interviewed, following story presentations about an elderly woman's death, to assess their understanding of three concepts concerning death: irrevocability, cessation of…

Discusses moral development in elementary school children and offers some suggestions for helping children reach mature morality conceptions. (ED)

A nonindoctrinating, sound theoretical and practical base upon which to develop the teaching of moral education relies on several principles: discussion of moral conflict situations; knowledge of the student's stage of moral development; guidance of developmental matches; encouragement of role taking; and focus on rational thinking. (JMF)

It was hypothesized that attitude toward discipline is related to preference for principled reasoning in moral dilemmas. Results showed principled moral judgement was associated with humanistic-democratic ideology. Conventional moral judgement was associated with a custodial-authoritarian view of discipline. The relationship between teachers'…

Two experiments were conducted to assess the ability of preservice teachers to score moral thought statements using Kohlberg's theory of moral development. Results indicate that teachers, in general, are not able to rate the statements with consistency. (JKS)

In this article, the author distinguishes values from motives, then further separates instrumental values from intrinsic ones. He discusses how both are grounded and suggests how they can be identified by the counselor. (Author)

In aesthetic experience, we anticipate the freedom and responsibility needed for the creation of a differentiated but integrated society. The author argues that, because art can educate us in moral deliberation, it possesses instrumental moral value. (Author/RK)

This study investigated the differences in self-understanding, measured in a mock job interview, between 13 students who participated in values clarification exercises and 15 students who did not. Immediate results indicated that participants evidenced better self-understanding than nonparticipants. Six months later, responding subjects reported…

The role of moral education in higher education is traced, and attention is given to the void created by the abandonment of in loco parentis models. A model for confronting moral and ethical issues is offered. (Author)

A sample of 42 children, age 5 to 7, were tested for their ability to give appropriate causal accounts of incidents and to consider intentions and motives in judging the characters involved in these incidents. Results indicated that children are able to consider intention before they develop the ability to consider motives in moral judgment.…

Argues that virtues be taught in moral education as motivational concepts of a distinctively moral kind. Believes that this process will link mind, heart and will thereby bind together reason, emotion and action in concrete compartments of behavior. (Author/R K)

A teacher of elementary school physical education presents two techniques used for encouraging moral development in his students: (1) the discussion of moral dilemmas and (2) the selection of teams for volleyball and basketball games on the basis of pregame intrasquad scrimmages rated by sportsmanship. (MJB)

In this study of the relationship between moral behavior, level of moral development, and motivation, moral behavior was assessed in an experimental situation in which it was necessary to violate the experimenter's authority to help someone; level of moral development was assessed by Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Scale, and motivation by a…

Inquires whether it is feasible, useful and profitable to conceive moral education through the teaching of virtues. Considers some problems involved in presenting virtues. (Author/RK)

This assessment of L. Kohlberg's theory of moral development is a dialectical critique focusing on his claim that the sixth stage of moral development is morally adequate, specifically, that it is both comprehensive and fully equilibrated. Includes a brief account of B. J. Lonergan's dialectical method and an analysis of the sixth stage of…