Values Education in Schools

1. Values Education in Schools ISSUES AND CHALLENGES ISSUES AND CHALLENGES Brian V. Hill Brian V. Hill

2. Values Education in Schools * Where have we come from? Where have we come from?

3. Values Education in Schools * Where have we come from? What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers? What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers? * What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers?

4. 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.

5. 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? Teacher’s task = enhance capacities 1. Nature of values Teacher’s 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.

6. Values Education in Schools 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

7. 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

8. Values Education in Schools 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

9. Values Education in Schools 3. Transcending the public/private dichotomy * Where have we come from? * What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers? * What pedagogic challenges? 1. Nature of values ? ? 2. Teaching domains 3. Two-prong strategy * What cognitive core? 1. Underlying belief systems 2. Clarifying the core 3. Transcending public/private dichotomy

10. * 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