ABSTRACT
In the USA values and values education, and multicultural and antiracist education, are matters of vast public concern; yet each has made very little contact with the other. Since the early 1990s movements for moral, value, or character education have made strong inroads in several school districts and schools throughout the country. Yet the values promoted by such programs have tended to be “traditional” ones, such as honesty, self-control, respect, responsibility, courage, fairness, loyalty, rule-abidingness, compassion. Many of these values are seen by some of their proponents as addressing what they take to be a “crisis of values” among American youth, evidenced in teenage pregnancy, an increase in youth violence, greater willingness to cheat in school and to be disrespectful of school and other authorities, and a lack of social concern.
