EDUCATION AND MORAL COMMITMENT

This paper argues that most school-based moral education programmes ar e limited by their exclusive focus on moral reflection and their negle ct of moral habit, effect and commitment. In order to have a far-reach ing impact on young people's moral conduct, schools must join with oth er institutions, including families, churches, youth programmes and ot her community organisations to provide a clear and coherent set of exp ectations for young people. The goals of this co-operation across inst itutions should be to promote the development of responsible moral hab its, mature moral reflection, a sense of self with moral concerns at t he core and an integration of habit and reflection, morality and the s elf.