Values

Education
in Schools

ISSUES AND
CHALLENGES

Brian
Brian V.
V. Hill
Hill
 Values
Education
in Schools

* Where have we
come from?

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 Values
Education
in Schools

* Where have we
come from? What
What disturbed
disturbed
* What disturbed
our dogmatic
slumbers?
our
our dogmatic
dogmatic
slumbers?
slumbers?
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 Values
Education
in Schools
What are some of the
* Where have we
come from? pedagogic challenges?
* What disturbed
our dogmatic
slumbers? 1. Describing the nature
* What pedagogic
challenges? and sources
1. Nature of
values
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.
 Values
Education
in Schools

* Where have we
2. Identifying the teaching
come from? domains
* What disturbed
our dogmatic
slumbers?
cognitive
affective dispositional
* What pedagogic
challenges?
1. Nature of
values
Teacher’s task = enhance capacities
2. Teaching
domains
Teacher’s hope = encourage commitments

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.
 Values
Education
in Schools

* Where have we
3. Applying
come from? complementary strategies
* What disturbed
our dogmatic
slumbers?

* What pedagogic
challenges?
1. Nature of
values
2. Teaching
domains
3. Two-prong
Across-the-curriculum -
strategy implications for every learning area

Values discourse
A learning area in its own right
 Values
Education
in Schools

* Where have we What is the cognitive core?

come from?

* What disturbed
our dogmatic
slumbers? 1. Exploring underlying
* What pedagogic
challenges?
belief systems
1. Nature of
values
2. Teaching
domains Across-the-curriculum -
3. Two-prong implications for every learning area
strategy
* What cognitive
core?
1. Underlying
Towards critical affiliation
belief systems

Study of life-stances -
A learning area in its own right
 Values
Education
in Schools

* Where have we
come from?
2. Clarifying the Core
* What disturbed
our dogmatic
slumbers?

* What pedagogic
challenges?
1. Nature of
values
2. Teaching
domains
3. Two-prong
strategy
* What cognitive . . . not to develop a totalistic account
core?
1. Underlying to which all participants would be
belief systems
expected to conform, but a minimalist
2. Clarifying
the core set of agreements on which to base
common action in the wider
educational arena.
 Values
Education
in Schools

* Where have we
come from?
3. Transcending the
* What disturbed
our dogmatic
public/private
slumbers? dichotomy
* 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
* Where have we
come from?

* What disturbed
our dogmatic
slumbers?
* What pedagogic Values
challenges?
1. Nature of
Education in
Schools
values
2. Teaching
domains
3. Two-prong
strategy

* What cognitive
core?
1. Underlying
belief systems MAINTAIN
MAINTAIN
2. Clarifying THE
THE MOMENTUM
MOMENTUM
the core
3. Transcending
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public/private