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Values Education in Schools ISSUES AND CHALLENGES Brian Brian V. V. Hill Hill Values Education in Schools * Where have we come from? QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. Values Education in Schools * Where have we come from? * What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers? What What disturbed disturbed our our dogmatic dogmatic slumbers? slumbers? QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. Values Education in Schools * Where have we come from? * What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers? * What pedagogic challenges? 1. Nature of values What are some of the pedagogic challenges? 1. Describing the nature and sources of values Values are the priorities individuals and societies attach to certain beliefs, experiences, and objects, in deciding how they shall live and what they shall treasure. Values Education in Schools * Where have we come from? * What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers? * What pedagogic challenges? 1. Nature of values 2. Teaching domains 2. Identifying the teaching domains cognitive affective dispositional Teacher’s task = enhance capacities 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 come from? 3. Applying complementary strategies * What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers? * What pedagogic challenges? 1. Nature of values 2. Teaching domains 3. Two-prong strategy Across-the-curriculum implications for every learning area Values discourse A learning area in its own right Values Education in Schools * Where have we come from? * What disturbed our dogmatic slumbers? * What pedagogic challenges? What is the cognitive core? 1. Exploring underlying belief systems 1. Nature of values 2. Teaching domains 3. Two-prong strategy * What cognitive core? 1. Underlying belief systems Across-the-curriculum implications for every learning area Towards critical affiliation 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 core? 1. Underlying belief systems 2. Clarifying the core . . . 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. Values Education in Schools * 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 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 Values Education in Schools 3. Two-prong strategy * What cognitive core? 1. Underlying belief systems 2. Clarifying the core 3. Transcending x public/private MAINTAIN MAINTAIN THE THE MOMENTUM MOMENTUM