ABSTRACT
A unique feature of the book is to acknowledge that, although issues of gender and ethnicity now tend to be integrated into textbooks and training across the professions, students will be practicing in settings (and a world) in which understanding issues of global culture will be the new necessity. No professional can hope to come to a deep understanding of dozens of cultures, but Chapter 7 frames specific examples of moral development theory, research, and issues within an overarching frame of core moral values that can help the practitioner make sense of the multitude of cultural variations that she or he will face in practice. The chapter introduces Shweder's important and heuristic concept of Three Ethics and then moves on to summarize key ideas from the Journal of Moral Education's special issues on Islamic values and morality in China Africa and Latin America. The chapter has been substantially revised to incorporate contemporary research and theory from cultural-development psychology.
