Values Education in Schools

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Values Education in Schools
ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
Brian V. Hill
Brian V. Hill
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Values Education in Schools
Where have we come from?
Where have we come from?
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Values Education in Schools
Where have we come from?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?
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Values Education in Schools
Where have we come from?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?
1. Describing the nature and sources
of values
What pedagogic challenges?
1. Nature of values
Values are the priorities individuals and
societies attach to certain beliefs,
exper-iences, and objects, in deciding how they
shall live and what they shall treasure.
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Values Education in Schools
2. Identifying the teaching domains
Where have we come from?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?
cognitive
affective
dispositional
What pedagogic challenges?
Teachers task enhance capacities
1. Nature of values
Teachers hope encourage commitments
2. Teaching domains
Critical Affiliation
1. Right to know nature and sources of values
2. Need to develop empathy and evaluative skills
3. Be encouraged to commit to worthy values.
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3. Applying complementary strategies
Where have we come from?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?
What pedagogic challenges?
1. Nature of values
2. Teaching domains
Across-the-curriculum - implications for every
learning area
3. Two-prong strategy
Values discourse A learning area in its own right
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Values Education in Schools
Where have we come from?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?

• Exploring underlying
• belief systems

What pedagogic challenges?
1. Nature of values
2. Teaching domains
Across-the-curriculum - implications for every
learning area
3. Two-prong strategy
What cognitive core?
Towards critical affiliation
1. Underlying belief systems
Study of life-stances - A learning area in its
own right
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2. Clarifying the Core
Where have we come from?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?
What pedagogic challenges?
1. Nature of values
2. Teaching domains
3. Two-prong strategy
. . . not to develop a totalistic account to
which all participants would be expected to
conform, but a minimalist set of agreements on
which to base common action in the wider
educational arena.
What cognitive core?
1. Underlying belief systems
2. Clarifying the core
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3. Transcending the public/private dichotomy
Where have we come from?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?
What pedagogic challenges?
1. Nature of values
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2. Teaching domains
3. Two-prong strategy
What cognitive core?
1. Underlying belief systems
2. Clarifying the core
3. Transcending public/private dichotomy
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Where have we come from?
What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?
Values Education in Schools
What pedagogic challenges?
1. Nature of values
2. Teaching domains
3. Two-prong strategy
What cognitive core?
1. Underlying belief systems
MAINTAIN THE MOMENTUM
MAINTAIN THE MOMENTUM
2. Clarifying the core
x 3. Transcending public/private