This paper examines the moral education of the child with a critical attention paid to the allocation of responsibility. The paper tried to answer the question: ‘Who gives the child his moral education, is it a collective responsibility or the sole responsibility of an institution’? After the examination of some theories of moral development, attempt was made to examine the various institutions...

PURPOSE/METHODS This study investigated the relationship between ethics education and training, and the use and usefulness of ethics resources, confidence in moral decisions, and moral action/activism through a survey of practicing nurses and social workers from four United States (US) census regions. FINDINGS The sample (n = 1215) was primarily Caucasian (83%), female (85%), well educated (5...

Education and Development and at the Erasmus Institute during 2003-2004, my students, and the volume editors. Thanks to the Erasmus Institute for supporting a year of writing. Integrative Ethical Education Much of the debate over moral education in recent decades has centered around the advantages and disadvantages of two dominant educational approaches to the moral formation of children, refer...

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...

Literature on moral education has contributed surprisingly little to our understanding of issues of race and education. The creation of inter-racial communities in schools is a particularly vital antiracist educational goal, one for which public support in the United States has weakened since the 1970s. As contexts for antiracist moral education, such communities should involve racially plural ...