Values Education for

the Filipinos
(The DECS or DepEd
Values Framework)

Rationale

Values Education Program

DECS (DO 6, s.
1988)

 The Department of Education

Culture and Sports (DECS)

provides and promotes values
education at all three levels of
the educational system for the
development of the human
person committed to the
building "of a just and humane
society" and an independent
and democratic nation.

Values
A thing has valued
when it is perceived
as good and
desirable.

as truth, honesty,
and justice.

DECS
This Values education program

will help students, teachers,

parents as well as the
community to uplift ones
dignity and moral as a HUMAN
PERSON.
This aims that as A human

with a just and humane society

and an independent and
democratic nation:

 You should not live and love

with what is needed as a
PERSON, instead live and love
yourself as a person and use
what is needed. Knowing
ones Value/Worth.

The Values Education

Program
The values education

framework hereby suggested

is designed to translate values
from the abstract into the
practical.

 Values such as discipline and

concern for the poor are

ineffective unless they are
internalized and translated into
action.

Lets talk about the

Rationale
First of all, the subject matter

itself, values, has direct and

immediate relevance to the
personal life of the learner.
Second, the process is not just

cognitive but involves all the

faculties of the learner. The
teacher must appeal not only
to the mind but the hearts as
well, in fact, the total human
person.

 Third, one learns values the

way children learn many things

from their parents. Children
identify with parents, and this
identification becomes the
vehicle for the transmission of
learning, be it language or the
values of thrift and hard work.
Hence, the teachers personal
values play an important role
in values learning.