Anne T Colby

Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility

Educating Citizens reports on how some American colleges and universities are preparing thoughtful, committed, and socially responsible graduates. Many institutions assert these ambitions, but too few act on them. The authors demonstrate the fundamental importance of moral and civic education, descr...

Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law

The Challenge of Educating Lawyers "This volume, under the presidency of Lee Shulman, is intended primarily to foster appreciation for what legal education does at its best. We want to encourage more informed scholarship and imaginative dialogue about teaching and learning for the law at all organiz...

Some Do Care

Although many people believe that this is a barren time for moral leadership in this country, in Some Do Care Anne Colby and William Damon show that moral heroes do exist today. Drawing on in-depth interviews, they offer a revealing look into the lives of twenty-three Americans who have provided exe...

Educating for Democracy: Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement

"Educating for Democracy" reports the results of the Political Engagement Project, a study of educational practices at the college level that prepare students for responsible democratic participation. In this book, coauthors Anne Colby, Elizabeth Beaumont, Thomas Ehrlich, and Josh Corngold show that...

The Measurement of Moral Judgment

This work was originally issued as a two-volume set, published in 1987 and 1988. It constitutes the definitive presentation of the system of classifying moral judgment built up by Lawrence Kohlberg and his associates over a period of twenty years. Researchers in human development and education aroun...

Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De)

Studies of human development have taken an ethnographic turn in the 1990s. In this volume, leading anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists discuss how qualitative methodologies have strengthened our understanding of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral development, and of the difficulties o...

Rethinking Undergraduate Business Education: Liberal Learning for the Profession

Business is the largest undergraduate major in the United States and still growing. This reality, along with the immense power of the business sector and its significance for national and global well-being, makes quality education critical not only for the students themselves but also for the public...

The Power of Ideals: The Real Story of Moral Choice

Cynicism often seems a smarter choice than idealism. There are reasons for this. Politicians have disappointed us time and again; trusted institutions have proven to be self-serving and corrupt; hopes for lasting world peace repeatedly have been dashed; and social inequities persist and increase, un...

Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment

Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral Commitment

Competence and Character Through Life

Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry

Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry

The Measurement of Moral Judgment: Theoretical Foundations and Research Validation

Checklist for a Perfect Move

The Measurement of Moral Judgement: Standard Issue Scoring Manual