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Values Education

Summary/Abstract: Values education is a field where there is a lot of disagreement and lack of clear views, especially related to approaches and methods of teaching, values that should be transmitted and the role of teachers and schools in this process. This article gives a brief review of those questions and answers, guided by an intention to recognize and offer some explanations of theoretical and practical problems that education faces in the process of implementing values into the educational system. Two of the most influential but opposite approaches in values education are depicted – direct approach or character education and cognitive-developmental approach – with an overview of a possible reconciliation of their differences. Also, the UN decade of education for sustainable development is given as an example where an emphasis on values in education gets a special role as it gives a framework for education that is directed not only towards environmental protection but also towards protection and survival of global society.

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