How Values Education Can Improve Student and Teacher Wellbeing
A Simple Guide to the âEducation in Human Valuesâ Approach
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- English
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How Values Education Can Improve Student and Teacher Wellbeing
A Simple Guide to the âEducation in Human Valuesâ Approach
About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Can Values Improve the Anthropocene?
- 2 Rediscovering 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 Nature of Values-based Education
- 8 Methods for Teaching EHV
- 9 Integrating Values into Current Practices: The âHiddenâ 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
- Index