This book summarizes and updates findings from the Australian Values
Education Program with a focus on the latest international research in
the field, both theoretical and practice-based. Further, it provides a
theoretical and practical basis for understanding the disenchantment
with low-level accountability approaches to learning (e.g. NAPLAN in
Australia).
In turn, the book demonstrates the effectiveness of Values Education as
a holistic pedagogy with the potential to enhance students' learning
effects in terms of their personal, social, emotional and academic
development. It offers well-tested alternative pedagogical approaches,
based on research insights largely originating from actual
classroom-based practice.