Informed by the most up-to-date research from around the world, as well as examples of good practice, this handbook analyzes values education in the context of a range of school-based measures associated with student wellbeing. These include social, emotional, moral and spiritual growth – elements that seem to be present where intellectual advancement and academic achievement are being maximized. This text comes as ‘values education’ widens in scope from being concerned with morality, ethics, civics and citizenship to a broader definition synonymous with a holistic approach to education in general. This expanded purview is frequently described as pedagogy relating to ‘values’ and ‘wellbeing’.
This contemporary understanding of values education, or values and wellbeing pedagogy, fits well with recent neuroscience research. This has shown that notions of cognition, or intellect, are far more intertwined with social and emotional growth than earlier educational paradigms have allowed for. In other words, the best laid plans about the technical aspects of pedagogy are bound to fail unless the growth of the whole person – social, emotional, moral, spiritual and intellectual, is the pedagogical target. Teachers and educationalists will find that this handbook provides evidence, culled from both research and practice, of the beneficial effects of such a ‘values and wellbeing’ pedagogy.
Author(s): Terence Lovat (auth.), Terence Lovat, Ron Toomey, Neville Clement (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 870
Tags: Educational Philosophy; Curriculum Studies; Religion and Education; Teaching and Teacher Education
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
The New Values Education: A Pedagogical Imperative for Student Wellbeing....Pages 3-18
Values Education, Instructional Scaffolding and Student Wellbeing....Pages 19-36
Student Wellbeing at School: The Actualization of Values in Education....Pages 37-62
Personal and Professional Values in Teaching....Pages 63-74
School Values and Effective Pedagogy: Case Studies of Two Leading Edge Schools in England....Pages 75-90
When Research Meets Practice in Values Education: Lessons from the American Experience....Pages 91-110
Mathematics Education and Student Values: The Cultivation of Mathematical Wellbeing....Pages 111-135
Value in Shadows: A Critical Contribution to Values Education in Our Times....Pages 137-152
Teacher Values Underlying Professional Ethics....Pages 153-161
Teachers as Key Players in Values Education: Implications for Teacher Formation....Pages 163-177
Valuing the Self....Pages 179-194
Values and Wellbeing in the Curriculum: Personal and Public Dimensions....Pages 195-210
Classroom-Based Practice in Values Education....Pages 211-224
Values Education and the National Curriculum in England....Pages 225-238
Teacher Practice and Students’ Sense of Belonging....Pages 239-260
Values of Problem-Based Learning: Perceptions of Facilitators in an Initial Teacher Training Program at Temasek Polytechnic, a Singapore Institution of Higher Learning....Pages 261-272
Values, Wellness and the Social Sciences Curriculum....Pages 273-289
Inspiration as a Thought-Provoking Concept for Values Education....Pages 291-302
Values Education and the Hidden Curriculum....Pages 303-317
Towards an Ethics of Integration in Education....Pages 319-336
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
New Research Directions in Character and Values Education in the UK....Pages 339-357
Nurturing Teacher Wellbeing Through Values Education....Pages 359-375
Embracing Philosophy and Raising the Standard of Pre-service Teacher Education Programs....Pages 377-394
Re-visiting the ‘Quiet Revolution’....Pages 395-407
Promoting Student Resilience and Wellbeing: Asia-Pacific Resilient Children and Communities Project....Pages 409-426
The Power of Character: Needed for, and Developed from, Teaching and Learning....Pages 427-454
Facilitating Values Education Leadership Through Discovery of Personal Beliefs and Values....Pages 455-470
The Positive Action Program: Improving Academics, Behavior, and Character by Teaching Comprehensive Skills for Successful Learning and Living....Pages 471-501
A Teacher’s Duty: An Examination of the Short-Term Impact of Values Education on Australian Primary School Teachers and Students....Pages 503-520
Continuity and Discontinuity in Character Education....Pages 521-548
Values Education and Whole Person Development in Ukraine: The Role of Vasyl Sukhomlinsky and Current Applications....Pages 549-558
Imaginative Education and the National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools: Practical Implementations for Promoting Ethical Understanding....Pages 559-577
The Developmental Contours of Character....Pages 579-603
The Unhappy Moralist Effect: A Story of Hybrid Moral Dynamics....Pages 605-614
Front Matter....Pages 615-616
Towards Pedagogy of Giving for Wellbeing and Social Engagement....Pages 617-630
Values Education as an Ethical Dilemma About Sociability....Pages 631-643
Values Education, Mental Reality Constructs and Student Wellbeing....Pages 645-657
Building a Sustaining Classroom Climate for Purposeful Ethical Citizenship....Pages 659-673
Valuing Social and Emotional Connectedness Among Learners at All Levels....Pages 675-701
Teach Our Children Well: A Social Work Perspective on Integrating Values Education in Schools....Pages 703-716
Front Matter....Pages 615-616
Making Values Education Real: Exploring the Nexus Between Service Learning and Values Education....Pages 717-735
Passion and Purpose: Teacher Professional Development and Student Social and Civic Growth....Pages 737-763
Education and Diversity: Values Education and Cross-cultural Learning Through Socratic Dialogue and the Visual Arts....Pages 765-777
Developing Student Wellbeing Through Education for Sustainability: Learning from School Experience....Pages 779-794
Translating Values Education into Values Action: Attempts, Obstacles, and Potential for the Future....Pages 795-809
Active Citizenship Education and Critical Pedagogy....Pages 811-823
The Impact of Social Interdependence on Values Education and Student Wellbeing....Pages 825-847
Students Leading in Investigating and Enacting Values in School Communities....Pages 849-866
Values Implicit in Vocational Education and Training: The Challenge for Wider Issues of Personal and Social Engagement....Pages 867-882
Integrating the Personal with the Public: Values, Virtues and Learning and the Challenges of Assessment....Pages 883-896
Transmitting Social and National Values Through Education in Singapore: Tensions in a Globalized Era....Pages 897-917
Values in Motion: From Confident Learners to Responsible Citizens....Pages 919-935
Using a New Body/Mind Place-Based Narrative Pedagogy to Teach Values Education in the Age of Sustainability....Pages 937-945
Facilitating a Moral Journey in a University Setting for Managing an Age-Old Conflict in the Abrahamic Holy Land....Pages 947-957
Theorizing Social Wellbeing: Subjective Mental States, Preference Satisfaction or Mitsein?....Pages 959-976
Back Matter....Pages 977-1015
