Transcript Values education and moral judgement

UNIT
4.5
VALUES
EDUCATION
AND MORAL
JUDGEMENT
Ruth Heilbronn and
Tony Turner
From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009
OBJECTIVES
At the end of this unit you should be able to:
• describe the legal responsibility of the school towards pupils
in the area of moral, spiritual, social and cultural development
• begin to identify opportunities in school to promote these
aims
• try out some methods of teaching towards these aims and
evaluate them
• place moral and values education in a subject and school
context, including citizenship education
• relate these aspects of a teacher's role to the
standards/competences expected of a newly qualified teacher.
From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009
VALUES EDUCATION
• Diversity and common values
• Settings and opportunities for values education and moral
development
• Aims of schools
• Subject teaching
• Class management
• Assessing pupils
• Critical incidents
• Valuing diversity
From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009
FURTHER INFORMATION
To explore this material further, read:
Heilbronn, R. and Turner, T. (2009) ‘Values education and moral judgement’,
in S. Capel, M. Leask and T. Turner (eds) Learning to Teach in the
Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience, 5th edn,
London: Routledge.
From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009
FURTHER READING
Haydon, G. (2006a) Values in Education, London: Continuum.
Haydon, G. (2006b) Education, Philosophy and the Ethical Environment,
London: Faber and Faber.
Langford, P. (1995) Approaches to the Development of Moral Reasoning,
Hove: Erlbaum.
Smith, R. and Standish, P. (eds) (1997) Teaching Right and Wrong: Moral
Education in the Balance, Stoke on Trent: Trentham.
From: Learning to Teach in the Secondary School 5th edition, Routledge © 2009