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Strategies In Values Education: Horse Or Cart?, Laurie Brady
Strategies In Values Education: Horse Or Cart?, Laurie Brady
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
This article describes briefly the growing emphasis in Australia on values education as evidenced by the Australian Government’s National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools (2005), and the responses of the respective States and Territories. Arguing that the major approaches to the teaching of values (the trait approach often taught through moral biography; values clarification; the cognitive developmental approach taught typically by discussion of moral dilemmas; and role playing) are markedly different in theory and practice, and that the National Framework is not prescriptive about the nature of teaching, the author suggests that the strategies embedded in the approaches, …
Making The Implicit Explicit: Values And Morals In Queensland Teacher Education, Amanda Mergler
Making The Implicit Explicit: Values And Morals In Queensland Teacher Education, Amanda Mergler
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
Since the mid-1990s, the role of the teacher has expanded to include overseeing and intervening in the moral development of students. In Australia, this expectation of teachers was generated largely by the national coalition government, and has been continued by the Labor government. As a result, it is essential that pre-service teacher education courses skill pre-service teachers in appropriate ways to educate students about values and morals. Additionally, education degrees must provide opportunities for pre-service teachers to analyse and reflect on their own values and morals. Professional Standards for Queensland Teachers (Queensland College of Teachers, 2006) takes the view that …
Assessing Moral Reasoning Development Through Values Education Within A Western Australian Independent School, Kelvin Fairclough
Assessing Moral Reasoning Development Through Values Education Within A Western Australian Independent School, Kelvin Fairclough
Theses: Doctorates and Masters
The relationship between Values Education and corresponding moral reasoning development has been explored within a group of forty-six year eight students (twelve and thirteen years old). Participants were tested with a Sociomoral Reflection Objective Measure instrument to index their moral reasoning stage development (reported as a Moral Maturity Score). Randomly dividing the group into two equal proportions they were assigned to an Experimental or Control group. The Experimental group was presented with Values Education through exposure to age relevant moral dilemmas which envelope a societal value drawn from the Core Shared Values (Curriculum Council of Western Australia, 1998). Within each …