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The AME is an American based society with international membership, founded in 1976 to provide an interdisciplinary forum for professionals interested in the moral dimensions of educational theory and practice. The WWW pages carry details of previous and forthcoming AME conferences, the AME newsletter and links to other related resources.
http://www.wittenberg.edu/ame/
A resource for teachers of Religious Education and Values Education. Five schools from Spain, Liechtenstein, The Netherlands, Germany (former GDR), and the UK are contributing to a web-site based upon the key stage 3 Agreed Syllabus for Somerset. The project is the cooperation between Exeter University, The Farmington Institute for Christian Studies, The Central Bureau for Educational Exchange, Socrates/Comenius Action 1 & Somerset County Council. There are 9 Modules: 1.Experience & Belief 2.Human Beings & The Environment 3.Where's The Answer? 4.Belonging, Belief And Identity 5.Life's Journeys 6.Keeping The Rules 7.Expressions Of Belief 8.What Do People Believe? 9.What's To be Done? Each module will have lesson plans for major subjects of the curriculum. Currently most of the material submitted is in the first two modules.
http://telematics.ex.ac.uk/amv/index.htm
An article from the Journal of College and Character that discusses one HE institution's (St. Joseph's College, Standish, Maine, USA) process of incorporating a Character Education thread into its teacher preparation curriculum.
http://www.collegevalues.org/articles.cfm?a=1&id=571
The Cornerstone Values Curriculum is produced by The objective of New Zealand Foundation For Values Education is to fund the preparation , publication and promotion of a "cornerstone values" curriculum and supporting teaching resources. Further details are available from the author.
http://cornerstonevalues.org/
The purpose of this project is to register a comprehensive range of values with which people identify, to which they are attracted or which they reject as abhorrent. The section contains 3,254 entries linked by 23,237 cross-references as follows (figures for 4th edition, 1994-95) . It is divided into four parts: Section VC contains 987 constructive value words (eg peace, harmony, beauty); Section VD contains 1,992 destructive value words (eg conflict, depravity, ugliness). Section VP contains 230 entries on value-polarities (eg agreement-disagreement, freedom- restraint, pleasure-displeasure) derived from the organization of Roget's Thesaurus. These group and link the entries of Sections VC and VD. Section VT consists of 45 "value types" or "value complexes" which are used to group the value-polarities of Section VP. The Human Values project is part of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential of the Union of International Associations (UIA).
http://www.uia.org/homeval.htm
This service is a collection of "Commentaries on the human values database associated with the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential -- maintained by the Union of International Associations". The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity perceives itself to be confronted (see overview Description and Commentaries). It aims to clarify the challenges such problems represent to concepts, values and development strategies.
http://www.uia.org/values/valcont.htm
The Institute for Global Ethics is a nonprofit research and educational organisation based in Maine, USA and established to increase public awareness and to promote the discussion of ethics in a global context. This www site summarises the institute's programs in the education, corporate and public sectors. There are samples from 'Building Decision Skills' a curriculum for character education in secondary schools.
http://www.globalethics.org/bds/default.html
An online journal dealing with character education in higher education, largely North American. Published by the Center for the Study of Values in College Student Development, Florida, USA. This resource has a large number of papers (fulltext) under the headings: Character Education teaching and practices, Spirituality on Campus, Student's Reflections and Featured Journal Articles. There is also a bulletin board, events diary and discussion forum.
http://www.collegevalues.org/
This www site contains links and lists of resources for educators and parents, related to the practice and theory of character education.
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~cac/chared/
The Journal of Value Inquiry is currently only a paper publication. However, a home page, on the publishers site, lists the contents of each volume. For example: Table of Contents Volume 32, Issue 1, March 1998: Morality Play; The Idea of Community, an Ethical Exploration, Part I: The Search for an Elusive Concept; Moral Education and Moral Reasoning in Traditional African Cultures; Adam Smith, Aristotle, and the Virtues of Commerce; A Defense of Acting from Duty; Self-Forgiveness and Responsible Moral Agency; Goodness without Qualification; The Role of Loyalty in the Moral Life; Cultural Differences and Global Ethics: The First World Congress of Business, Economics, and Ethics in Tokyo; Environmental Values in American Culture; Rom Harré and Michael Krausz: Varieties of Relativism; Christopher Gowans: Innocence Lost: An Examination of Inescapable Wrongdoing; Rediscovering the Moral Life: Philosophy and Human Practice.
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0022-5363
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