BITS & BYTES
VALUES AROUND THE WORLDwebsites last viewed 4 October 2003
In the United Kingdom
In South Africa
In Scotland
In Northern Ireland
In America
In Australia, Asia and the Pacific
The role of civics
and citizenship education
Racial and
sexual discrimination
General
In the United Kingdom
http://telematics.ex.ac.uk/amv/index.htm
Awareness, Mystery and Value: A resource for teachers of religious education and values education. This resource includes nine modules, such as Experience and Belief, Human Beings and the Environment, Expressions of Belief, What Do People Believe? and What’s to Be Done? Each module has lesson plans for major subjects of the curriculum. Currently most of the material submitted is in the first two modules.
http://re-xs.ucsm.ac.uk/values/main.html
Values Education Council membership comes from community and government organisations, committed to promoting and developing resources for values in education.
http://www.ehv.org.uk/
This site is brought to you by the Human Values Foundation, UK. The aim is to introduce this universal values-based approach to spiritual, moral, social and cultural/citizenship education, known as ‘Education in Human Values’ (EHV), and explain how schools can benefit from it.
In South Africa
http://education.pwv.gov.za/DoE_Sites/Curriculum/Values/values_in_education_initiative.htm
It was in a climate of anxiety about the need for moral regeneration and the re-norming of society, that the Working Group on Values in Education presented this document ‘as a starting point in what ought to become a national debate on the appropriate values for South Africa to embrace in its primary and secondary educational institutions’.
In Scotland
www.scre.ac.uk/spotlight/spotlight56.html
Understanding Values Education in the Primary School: A summary of the report of research carried out by the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE), which finds, ‘Teachers agree with parents that the ultimate responsibility for the development of children’s values lies with parents. However teachers also recognise that they themselves have an important role to play and that fostering values is integral to what goes on in the classroom’. These are among the conclusions to emerge from a two-year study of values education in primary schools conducted by researchers at the SCRE and funded by The Gordon Cook Foundation.
www.virtuesproject.com/
The stated aim of the Virtues Project is to provide multicultural products and programs of excellence and simplicity, which can serve as tools for the cultivation of virtues in individuals, families, organisations and communities. This site contains a summary of the project and some details of the products and services available from the project.
In Northern Ireland
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/education/ docs/values.htm
This document is the report entitled ‘Values in Education in Northern Ireland’, published by the Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (NICEA). The project aims were to research existing approaches to values in education; generate specific ‘profiles’ of values initiatives in education; and evaluate the current provision for values in education in the Northern Ireland curriculum. The document contains a list of organisations and projects involved in values education in Great Britain. There is also a bibliography of values education literature.
In America
www.collegevalues.org
An online journal dealing with character education in higher education, largely in North America. Published by the Center for the Study of Values in College Student Development, Florida, this resource has a large number of papers under the headings: Character Education, Spirituality on Campus, Student’s Reflections and Featured Journal Articles.
www.globalethics.org/bds/default.html
The Institute for Global Ethics is a non-profit research and educational organisation based in Maine, and established to increase public awareness and promote the discussion of ethics in a global context. This site summarises the institute’s programs in the education, corporate and public sectors. There are samples from ‘Building Decision Skills’, a curriculum for character education in secondary schools.
www.wittenberg.edu/ame/
The AME is an American-based society with international membership, founded in 1976 to provide an interdisciplinary forum for professionals interested in the moral dimensions of educational theory and practice. These pages carry details of previous and forthcoming AME conferences, the AME newsletter and links to other related resources.
www.ethicsusa.com/
Bureau of Essential Ethics Education: Information about products and services available from the Character Education Center. A monthly online newsletter, ‘Values in Action’, contains news and documents relating to character education, values education and ethics awareness. There is also a substantial list of ethics-related Internet resources.
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/ce/strat-splash.html
Strategies for Empowering Students: The University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service have a section of their service concerned with character education. The intention is to assist educators to provide character education and includes ‘Strategies for Empowering Students’, a series of 30 classroom activities designed for three age ranges.
In Australia, Asia and the Pacific
www.unescobkk.org/education/aceid/moral_education.htm
The Asia-Pacific Centre of Education Innovation for Development (APEID) is a UNESCO non-government organisation. Their work focusses on research studies on Asia-Pacific core values of peace, human rights, tolerance and social coherence, and on aspects of education for international understanding.
www.neat.tas.edu.au/HENT/ (link no longer available)
Holistic Education Network of Tasmania: The purpose of the site is ‘to discuss the application of the principles and practice of holistic education to teaching and learning for all students’. There is an online newsletter, discussion forum and discussion of principles and definitions.
www.edna.edu.au/sibling/unesco/index_apnieve.html
APNIEVE is a UNESCO NGO, established in 1995. The principal objectives of APNIEVE are to promote and develop international education for peace, human rights, democracy and sustainable development through inter-country cooperation among individuals and institutions working in those fields among member states of the Asia-Pacific region.
www.global-education.asn.au
Global Education Centre is a non-profit, non-government organisation committed to global education, by supporting South Australian community members, teachers and students through conferences, educator workshops, library resources, and school and community programs.
www.cooberpedy.sa.edu.au/virtues.htm
The Virtues Project is an initiative which began in 1991 to empower individuals and families to live by their highest values. It was inspired by the desire to counteract the rising violence in and around families. It recognises that education is the key to transformation, but it insists that education must touch the human spirit. Five basic Virtues Project strategies are posted at this site.
The role of civics and citizenship education
www.abc.net.au/civics/teach/articles/jgore/jgore2.htm
This site features a paper, ‘Revisiting values education: The role of civics and citizenship education’, prepared for the Pacific Circle Consortium Conference, Mexico, 1998 by John Gore, then Chief Education Officer, New South Wales Department of Education and Training. Read of his experience in 1997 in Oregon, US, during a session specifically targeted at local teachers and wherein they were providing examples of their classroom practice. When asked how they taught values, their answer, ‘we don’t’, stunned a number of overseas participants and resulted in a sharing session about how values are taught in a number of different countries.
Racial and sexual discrimination
www.breaking-through.com
Breaking Through is a project that allows students, teachers and families to share stories about racial and sexual discrimination, as well as how they cope with bullying, myths, silence, intolerance, victimisation and stereotypes with others in an anonymous way. Breaking Through is a whole school approach to a safer, more tolerant school environment for our students. Includes links to other relevant sites.
www.dialogueaustralasia.org/
This ethics-focussed movement gathers around the Dialogue Australasia Network and is based on a ‘five-strand’ approach developed by philosopher Peter Vardy in Britain. In Australia it is called RAVE-religion and values education.
www.tdd.nsw.edu.au/resources/papers/lovat.htm
Online paper ‘Australian Perspectives on Values Education’ by Professor T. Lovatt at the University Newcastle.
www.uq.net.au/~zzglcent/glc_values_ ed.html
Values education activities from the Global Learning Centre, Brisbane.
www.kk.ecu.edu.au/sub/schoola/research/confs/aiec/papers/cnetolic04.htm A paper on values-based education for Indigenous Students, Edith Cowan University.
www.investigatemagazine.com/_NEWSTALK/00000edf.htm
A news item about the report ‘Kids Adrift’, which critiques the development of values education in New Zealand.
General
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/erozycki/ValuesConflict.html A paper challenging the development of values through education.
www4.gu.edu.au/ext/unesco/pdf/theme_d_pdf/mod20.pdf A UNESCO module on values as they relate to sustainability.
www.globaleducation.org/values.html The Global Education Centre is a site with many links to resources related to values education.
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