TY - JOUR A1 - Charland, William A. T1 - Moral Styles: A Resource for Value-centered Counseling JF - Journal of Religion and Health, New York, Vol. 9 (No. 1, 1970), pp. 71-82. N2 - Concepts underlying education are discussed as the greatest impediment to peace, especially where Latin American traditions and perspectives are concerned. Western philosophy has promoted the concept that manhood can be achieved only through domination, which often implies violence. The subjugated, rather than perceiving the arrogance and >threat to selfhood< in this model, raise it to an ideal. A brief history of Latin America's educational system shows the inculcation of this model, and describes the institution of educacion popular created by Paulo Freire (La educacion como practica de la libertad, Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 1978), first adopted by Chile in 1965. Its concepts, derived from Edmund Husserl's phenomenology, Erich FROMM's psychoanalytic theory, existentialism, Marxist humanism, and other philosophies, were intended to aid the transformation from dependency to autonomy and mobility, but caused a division in Latin American society instead. A liberating education must lead to an understanding of the relationships between men and women, and their connection to violence, and should have an androgynous goal, which would devalue the male orientation toward dominance and value the female characteristics of compassion, caring, and emotional intensity in interpersonal relationships. It is argued that such a goal would be conducive to peace. Y1 - 1970 ER -