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Values Education and Lifelong Learning

Principles, Policies, Programmes

  • Provides accounts of the philosophies, beliefs, world-views and traditions that might frame values education policies and programmes
  • Examples of policies for values education and lifelong learning in various national and international contexts are reviewed and assessed
  • Good practice programs and practices from different schools and school systems around the world are presented and explored
  • Contributes to assisting those concerned to achieve high quality lifelong learning for all, particularly in the realms of values education, personal development, education for citizenship and social cohesion
  • Assists with the work of educational systems and institutions in building new futures for education, that seek to be more sensitive to the needs of learners and are informed by new and emerging educational and societal priorities

Part of the book series: Lifelong Learning Book Series (LLLB, volume 10)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xli
  2. The Ontology of Values and Values Education

    • David N. Aspin
    Pages 27-47
  3. Opening the Road to Values Education

    • Gerhard Zecha
    Pages 48-60
  4. Values Education in Context

    • Ivan Snook
    Pages 80-92
  5. Rational Autonomy as an Educational Aim

    • Jim Mackenzie
    Pages 93-106
  6. Combining Values and Knowledge Education

    • Jean-luc Patry, Sieglinde Weyringer, Alfred Weinberger
    Pages 160-179
  7. Formalizing Institutional Identity: A Workable Idea?

    • Johannes L. van der Walt
    Pages 180-198
  8. A Vision Splendid?

    • David H. Brown
    Pages 211-237
  9. “What Kinds of People are We?”: Values Education After Apartheid

    • Shirley Pendlebury, Penny Enslin
    Pages 238-254
  10. Clusters and Learning Networks: A Strategy for Reform in Values Education

    • Judith D. Chapman, Ron Toomey, Sue Cahill, Maryanne Davis, Janet Gaff
    Pages 315-345

About this book

The aim of this book is to provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the nature, theory and practices of the ideas of values education and lifelong learning. Each chapter in this book is written in an accessible style by an international expert in the field. Authors tackle the task of identifying, analysing and addressing the key problems, topics and issues relevant to questions about the nature, purpose and scope of values education and Lifelong Learning that are internationally generalisable and, in times of rapid change, of enduring interest to the scholar and practitioner. Authors explore the ways and means by which learners may be encouraged to become educated and grow, both as individual beings and social agents, throughout the whole of their lifespan.

The book seeks to provide accounts and critical appraisal of some of the different principles, philosophies, theories, beliefs, traditions and cultures that might form the basis of, frame and furnish the setting for values education policies and programs. We look at some of the main theories behind versions of value in lifelong learning and we point to some of the key concepts and categories at work in such theories. We provide reference to and accounts of some examples of policies or proposals in various national contexts and a range of examples of good practice in policies, programs and curriculum schemes from different schools, school systems and other educating agencies, institutions and organisations around the world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    David N. Aspin

  • Centre for Lifelong Learning, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

    Judith D. Chapman

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