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The article relates to the situation in the Polish education, where moral education is taught as two school subjects: either religious education or ethics. Although the subjects are in direct competition, essentially, they relate to the same curriculum content. The author distinguishes moral upbringing from moral education, by assuming that the upbringing is carried out mainly at home, whereas the school's aim is to support the skills of making moral choices by the young generation. Therefore, the school cannot be blamed for pupils' moral condition because it is shaped by the home environment, which is understood in a wide sense here.

The condition of multicultural society in Indonesia can be said as two blades that can make positive value and negative value. In this era, there are more cases that can be seen about the heteroginity in the realistic of Indonesian society itself. Coming from those cases shows that there is a moral degradation in the middle of society especially youths. This thing exactly needs one real action that able become bridge for minimalizing bad probability that will happen next. Education gives contribution as pioneer that is counted by government through mental revolution movement in the form of moral education or character education. So, in this context the strengthnesss of moral value in multicultural social condition needs to be reformed through social changes that integrate two of moral problems and the multicultural in education institution. University holds the important role for bringing the social engineering; remember that the heap of youth majority can be met from university student that became the center of changing in social environment. Through this research, the researcher wants to examine between moral education and multicultural education that is intergrated in one of social engineering form in university. The purpose of this article research in the future can be looked forward as one solution for minimalizing the moral and multicultural problems as the form of nation unity defense that has " Bhinneka Tunggal Ika " Keywords: Social Engineering, Education, Moral Education, Multicultural Education, University

With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. In Caring--now updated with a new preface and afterword reflecting on the ongoing relevance of the subject matter--the author provides a wide-ranging consideration of whether organizations, which operate at a remove from the caring relationship, can truly be called ethical. She discusses the extent to which we may truly care for plants, animals, or ideas. Finally, she proposes a realignment of education to encourage and reward not just rationality and trained intelligence, but also enhanced sensitivity in moral matters." --

This systematic review aimed at exploring Confucius' thoughts and influence on moral education in China. The study results show that ancient Chinese educational thoughts of moral education could be said to have three dimensions: goal, main contents, and teaching methods described in this paper. An analysis of the key elements of Confucius' educational thought's on moral education reveals that the purpose of moral education in ancient China was to cultivate a totally virtuous individual ('Junzi')., while as the concept of benevolence ('Ren') is considered the foundation of Confucius' moral, educational thoughts, while the concept of etiquette ('Li') is the external form of 'Ren.' Both of them are fundamental to Confucius' ideas on moral education. Confucius' moral education includes numerous teaching approaches, such as self-cultivating, individual instruction, enlightenment, and practice, which are presented in this paper. Furthermore, this paper concludes by arguing that Confucius's educational thoughts on moral education provide a significant reference for contemporary education in todays' China and has enduring value for research and practice in contemporary moral education in the 21st century.

The Confucian ethics which is the main body of the Chinese traditional culture has established its "basic morality" or "mother morality" not only in China, but also in some of the Asian countries. It is formed in the long historical development of more than 2000 years. First of all, it had the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Pre-Qin Dynasty, and the Confucianist thought with its own colors was formed at that time. When Dong Zhongshu made his suggestions that restrained all other schools but only respected Confucianism, the predominance of Confucianism over the political life had been defined in Chinese society. After the later generations' cooperating thing of diverse nature with unity of opposites, it was developed into the idealist philosophy of the Song (960 -1279) and Ming (1368-1644). Dynasties, which combined Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. The critical development of the modern Chinese society to Confucianist thought made us scholars have a timely reflection on the Confucian ethics. The requirement of constructing a harmonious world in the present time made us further considerate the moral education with Confucianist ethics.

This volume argues that moral education in the late 1990s is too abstract and would benefit from the adoption of the practical approach typical of biomedical ethics: "thinking with cases". The author explores various issues of moral epistemology and urges realism in ethics

Die Verfasserin stellt die zentralen Thesen des "moral education"-Ansatzes Lawrence Kohlbergs dar und zeigt Parallelen und Unterschiede zur Entwicklungspsychologie Jean Piagets auf. Sie benennt dann eine "Auswahl von empirischen Untersuchungsprojekten", die die Breite der Anwendungsmöglichkeiten des "moral education"-Ansatzes deutlich macht. Abschließend werden "Probleme und Kritikpunkte" hinsichtlich Methode, "Ziel und Berechtigung" des Ansatzes diskutiert. (WZ)

The topic of the spiritual and cultural formation of the younger generation at all times has been the subject of close comprehension of philosophers, religious scholars, teachers, representatives of many ethnic groups who study it. Each ethnic group developed certain methods of education (training and upbringing) of young people, the formation of its spiritual and cultural appearance. Different cultures: eastern and western, have developed their models, standards of education, spiritual and cultural development, and upbringing, in which both universal and specific ethnonational aspects are present. The article considers the problem of spiritual and moral education of the younger generation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, aimed at reviving national values, improving the system of national education, and educating a harmoniously developed generation in the spirit of patriotism and love for the Motherland. It also reveals the importance of studying the history of Uzbekistan in educating young people in the spirit of the ideology of national independence. The cultural past does not disappear, it persists for generations, works for the present, laying the foundation for the future. The culture of the past is always necessary for modernity, which is experiencing a crisis of spirituality and morality. The present must be compared with the past to select a new trend in cultural development. Turning to the past cultural, intellectual, values allows us to understand the present, find ways to overcome the crisis in culture, associated not only with a drop in the quality of education but also with the spiritual and cultural education of young people, as well as to bridge the gap between the sides of a single cultural and intellectual process. The article examines the ideas of educating the younger generation in the works of such oriental thinkers and educators like Abu Raikhan Beruni, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, analyzes their philosophical views on education and such vital tasks as finding the meaning of life, researching good and evil, defining the concepts of justice, compassion, etc. Attention is paid to the relevance of studying political and legal doctrines, works of thinkers of the East, which have an important role in educating the younger generation in the spirit of patriotism and high legal culture. The article raises the problems of educating modern youth in the spirit of patriotism based on national traditions.

This article analyses the intellectual, religious, national and moral processes through which a democratic society has had to confront in its day-to-day routines under the ever-present threat of terror. It discusses the effects of the terror over the character of Israeli society and the critical debates in its system of education. As far as it can be ascertained through the observations in this study, the general publics' attitude could be defined as a mildly moral realistic one: people think that terror and violence have objective foundations but certainly embody some subjective human conventions and beliefs.