Personalistic Moral Education in Catechesis

Moral Values In Education

Schools have long been seen as institutions for preparing children for life, both academically and as moral agents in society. In order to become capable, moral citizens, children need to be provided with opportunities to learn moral values. However, little is known about how teachers enact social and moral values programs in the classroom. The aim of this article is to investigate the the mora...

Moral education in medical schools.

The present report summarizes challenges in teaching medical ethics, defines its goals, describes theoretical frameworks for moral education, and reviews strategies for teaching medical ethics to serve as guidelines in developing medical ethics instruction. Medical teachers should clarify the instructional goals in cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral domains. The cognitive developmental and ...

Moral Education for a Society in Moral Transition

IN 1969 the Association for Super vision and Curriculum Development held a special conference on the hidden or un studied curriculum of the school. My friend Philip Jackson organized the session with papers by Friedenberg, Dreeben, Jackson, and myself. 1 At the time I claimed Jackson's term, the "hidden curriculum," referred to the moral atmosphere of the school, and that the function of the hi...

The morality of moral education.

The Holocaust and Moral Education

F""("1he belief that schoo~ hav.e a resp?nsibility t~ teach ~ values is a very old Idea m Amencan education. In recent years, however, the aims and methods of programs in moral education have become a subject of intense debate. Some critics believe that such programs distract schools from their essential academic mission. Religious conservatives, wary of curricula that they perceive as favoring...