Character education is urgent in passing down the ethical and moral values in the cultured community life. The local cultural values are a source of ethics and moral education for elementary school students. The school keeps taking an essential role in cultivating the local values through online character education during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Schools play a vital role in inculcation of values and development of values. It has become, of late, the central concern of teacher education. Teacher education programmes are the effective modes of transmission of values having a direct impact on the school education. A College of Teacher Education was established at Badrachalam exclusively for…

A concern for Catholic educators is how to keep Catholic schools viable and healthy in a milieu of diminishing numbers of religious as well as a very complex and changing world. This article addresses the Augustinians' response to the challenge to keep the Order's mission of education alive and thriving in the 21st century. This article hopes to…

This article reports findings from a study of England's most improved academy, a high school in a former mining community serving a designated social priority area. The correlation between academic success and character education based upon the core values of the school is reported with reference to quantitative and qualitative data obtained from…

Review of research is said to support the contention that there is a relationship between values and behavior, but to indicate a need for further development of the theory of values clarification. (GW)

A model of decision-making in regard to health education is presented which focuses on the elements of knowledge, values, and strategy. (GW)

The authors stress that teaching persons to communicate their values is an important component of an educational program of values clarification. (GW)

This paper, intended to assist users in developing a rationale for vocational education, lists a series of values, followed by two or more citations from the literature that support the particular item. The thesis of the paper is that vocational education can and does play a number of significant roles in the secondary school setting. The values…

Argues that contemporary world problems involve intractable questions of values and value priorities. Presents supporting material from four sources and considers the challenges posed to higher education. States that teaching must evoke a personal response from students so that they may deal with questions of values. (Author/GEA)

Discusses the use of the opinion poll technique which requires students to take a stand on an issue and to defend or give reasons for taking the stand they chose. Students become aware of their values and how they affect decisions. Issues for elementary students are suggested. (RM)

Several current viewpoints concerning values education are identified and suggestions for a comprehensive approach to values education are offered. (JMF)

Designed to be used with the Illinois teacher's manual, "Vocational Ethics: Toward the Developing of an Enabling Work Ethic," this supplementary instructional information contains the following: (1) student worksheets; (2) activities; (3) assessment information; and (4) a Teacher's Trouble Shooter's Guide to enable teachers to check their own…

Discusses the place of values in the pedagogy of higher education, specifically how transcendent values might play an important role in teaching. States that, while there is no agreement as to the proper role of values in the classroom, teaching contexts can be viewed as value-rich environments. Argues that values themselves can serve as pointers…

Value neutrality and values clarification fail to foster critical thinking about values. The values articulation approach identifies the rationality that is applied to value claims. It avoids noncognitivism and moral relativism and suggests ways the discussion of values in the classroom prepares students to deal with broader moral issues. (VM)

Proposes a view of values counseling that emphasizes values clarification and suggests that the strength of this approach is found in the process of values clarification. Encourages counselors to think about values counseling as an integrative process that is a purposeful approach derived from a theoretical base. (JAC)