Values education and quality teaching: the double helix effect

Values Education and Quality Teaching: The Double Helix Effect reports on theresults of two of the major projects in the Australian Government’s Values Education Program. These results point to the fact that Values Education can no longer be seen as marginal to the main role of teaching and schooling nor as aventure merely for religious schooling. In contrast, the results show that Values Education sits at the centre of teaching and schooling wherever it occurs. The importance of Values Education is in its potential to re-focus teachers and schools on their essential purpose, namely the holistic betterment of the students in their care. Presenting ground breaking research on the relationship of values education and quality teaching The theory presented in this book is a truly international innovation based on the best educational research findings Has impact on teaching and schooling across the globe INDICE: Acknowledgements. About the Contributors. Introduction: Values Education — A Brief History to Today. 1: Values Education and Quality Teaching: Two Sides of the Learning Coin. 2: Perspectives from Research and Practice in Values Education. 3: Student Action Teams, Values Education and Quality Teaching and Learning — Case Study from Manningham Cluster, Victoria. 4: Placing Values at the Centre of School Policy and Classroom Practice — Case Study at Modbury School, South Australia. 5: Moving Values Beyond the Half Hour: Peer Leadership and School Vision — Case Study of Townsville Cluster, Queensland. 6: Valuing Diversity in Children’s Voice — Case Study of the Western Australian Cluster. 7: Values and Quality Teaching at West Kidlington School, UK. 8: A PerfectMatch: Living Values Educational Program and Adventura City of Excellence School, USA. 9: The Double Helix of Quality Teaching and Values Education and ItsImplications for the Professional Lifelong Learning of Teachers. References. Subject Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9961-8
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés