Moral Education versus Values Clarification

Abstract

The values clarification approach to moral education, is a deficient, if not faulty program for, despite claims to the contrary, the values clarification approach lacks the major requirements for an adequate moral educational program: the treatment of value judgments as objective statements which are capable of cognitive analysis as well as justification within their context. This article demonstrates the importance that considerations of character must have in an adequate system of morals a quality lacking in the values clarification program.