Full Description
Presenting Values Education as a solution to major challenges in education such as student disengagement and teacher burnout, this book provides a wealth of practical advice about how to implement the Education in Human Values approach in schools, promoting wellness and improved educational outcomes.
Values Education is a world-wide movement and comes in several forms. This book explains the need for and nature of values education, provides practical, easy strategies for implementing the Education in Human Values (EHV) approach, and outlines the educational theories that underpin it. The practical strategies in this book can be implemented in small increments in all aspects of school life. The focus is on both student and teacher wellbeing. The methods can also be used by teachers to address their own professional and personal challenges and to help them cope with difficult situations that cannot be changed.
Written for teachers, teacher educators, and teachers in training, this book is the one-stop-shop for gaining a better understanding of values education, how it can support whole-school wellbeing and how to implement it effectively.
Contents
Introduction 1. Can Values Improve the Anthropocene? 2. Re-discovering and Promoting Values through EHV 3. What is The Right Thing to Do? 4. Values Acquisition and the Language of Values for Teaching EHV 5. The Ongoing Search for Meaning 6. Reappraising Character 7. The Lifelong Journey of Values-Based Education 8. Methods for Teaching EHV 9. Integrating Values into Current Practices: The 'Hidden' Curriculum 10. Integrating Values into Current Practices: Overtly Through the Curriculum 11. Maintaining Positivity through EHV 12. Curbing Excesses - Placing a Ceiling on Desires 13. Learning Partnerships to Enhance Values-Based Education 14. Character Education through EHV in Practice
