Teaching Ethics in the Secondary School

Abstract

Introduction: The attempt to generate adequate courses in Ethics at the secondary school level preceded Philosophy for Children as it is generall thought of today. But despite this early momentum, problems inherent to secondary school applications have shifted interest toward the early school years. Curricula furnished by, for example, the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children has, in recent years, been increasingly geared to the elementary school. Programs rarely go beyond the intermediate school years. However desirable or necessary that state of affairs, it does not respond to the apparent need of educators to address themselves to the crucial period of adolescence through some organized program of values education.