Their role is to provide the opportunity for the students to engage content and values, but not indoctrinate or promote specific ethical positions. They should help students understand the content and technologies, and facilitate their analysis and critical thinking skills. They should promote the ex-ploration of higher and the less introspective of Kolberg's levels of thinking. However, the final choices must remain in the hands of the students. Teachers should not confuse values clarification with ethical decision making.
Ethical decision making goes beyond values clarification.
It sets up a disequilibrium where students must analyze the pros and cons of the specific situation. It involves the restructuring of priorities based upon an analysis of evidence and their values. This is not to say there is no place for values clarification. In some cases students are just begin-ning to establish their own identities and must start at this level. However, it should be the goal of the teacher to move the students along as much as possible toward a more analytical ethical decision making model.