The Acquisition and Development of Values. Perspectives on Research.

Wells, Leora Wood, Comp.

Alert:

Limited Availability of Full-Text Documents. Click here for more information, or here to request the return of a PDF online.

Help

Tutorial

Help |

Tutorial

Help |

Tutorial

Help With This Page

Back to Search Results Help Permalink Share this record

More Info:
Help 0 items in My Clipboard | Add record to My Clipboard

Record Details - ED066414

Title: The Acquisition and Development of Values. Perspectives on Research.

Full-Text Availability Options:

ERIC Full Text (1569K)

Related Items: Show Related Items

Click on any of the links below to perform a new search
Title:	The Acquisition and Development of Values. Perspectives on Research.
Authors:	Wells, Leora Wood, Comp.
Descriptors:	Affective Behavior; Behavior Development; Behavior Patterns; Behavioral Science Research; Child Development; Conference Reports; Cultural Context; Family Influence; Individual Development; Moral Development; Moral Values; Social Change; Social Influences; Social Values; Values
Source:	N/A
More Info: Help Peer Reviewed:
Publisher:	N/A
Publication Date:	1968-05-17
Pages:	76
Pub Types:	N/A
Abstract:	A conference on research relating to how children acquire their systems of values and morality was held with the overall objective toward improving the quality of human life through greater scientific understanding of the developmental processes and the support of research on these complex problems. Participants stressed that many child-rearing practices, educational methods, and social work practices are predicated on unsupported assumptions about how people evolve their moral values and ethical standards. The discussions were intended to provide an interdisciplinary effort to digest and absorb what is known about moral development and the acquisition of values and to construct a variety of working concepts of morality on the basis of the most reliable scientific and philosophical evidence now available. A single theme predominated--values can only be meaningful when examined in the full light of their psychological, social, and historical context. Numerous theories were advanced: the influence of social attitudes, kinship relationships, behavior conditioning, attitude consistency from generation to generation, rapid social change and resulting psychological experimentation in a search for stability. Lack of universal definitions is a major handicap--terms relating to values or morality are surcharged with emotion and no adequate scientific model for study exists. (JMB)
Abstractor:	N/A
Reference Count:	0

Note:	Report of a Conference on Studies of the Acquisition and Development of Values sponsored by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH)
Identifiers:	N/A
Record Type:	Non-Journal
Level:	1 - Available on microfiche
Institutions:	National Inst. of Child Health and Human Development (NIH), Bethesda, MD.
Sponsors:	N/A
ISBN:	N/A
ISSN:	N/A
Audiences:	N/A
Languages:	N/A
Education Level:	N/A

Back to Search Results