This book summarizes and updates findings from the Australian Values Education Program with a focus on the latest international research in the field, both theoretical and practice-based. Further, it provides a theoretical and practical basis for understanding the disenchantment with low-level accountability approaches to learning (e.g. NAPLAN in Australia).
In turn, the book demonstrates the effectiveness of Values Education as a holistic pedagogy with the potential to enhance students’ learning effects in terms of their personal, social, emotional and academic development. It offers well-tested alternative pedagogical approaches, based on research insights largely originating from actual classroom-based practice.
Demonstrates the effectiveness of Values Education Offers recent research insights from fields such as neuroscience and perspectives across international regimes Positions Values Education as an alternative to broad literacy and numeracy assessment programs such as Australia’s NAPLAN
Terence Lovat
Australian Values Education Program literacy and numeracy device Values-based education holistic learning in Australia holistic goals in education wellbeing and inclusion individual learning and and assessment holistic pedagogy learning and instruction