(Rachels, Ch2) Another technique that is often incorporated along with clarification is dilemma ethics. In this methodology, originally founded by Lawrence Kohlberg, teachers assist students in resolving moral conflicts, facilitate student reasoning, and ensure that discussions take place in conditions that are conductive to growth in moral reasoning. Kohlberg's dilemmas are meant to foster reasoning and thought in forming ones values and morals. (Kohlberg) Using these techniques helps strengthen a child's convictions without forcing a set values system upon them and brainwashing them to one view.
             As pregnancy, substance abuse, and violence among teenagers has grown worse, the call for a different kind of ethical education system has been made, thus causing a return to the "character education" of previous decades. Proponents of character education want a restoration of traditional ways of teaching ethics to students. In these types of courses, students are taught exactly what is "right and wrong." Their values are judged and deemed to be acceptable or unacceptable standards to live by. Educators who choose to implement character education progr
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