The Values Education for Australian Schooling initiative, funded by the Australian Government, encourages all Australian schools to provide values education in a planned and systematic way by:

  • Articulating, in consultation with their school community, the school’s mission/ethos;
  • Developing student responsibility in local, national and global contexts and building student resilience and social skills;
  • Ensuring values are incorporated in school policies and teaching programmes across key learning areas; and
  • Reviewing the outcomes of their values education practices.

National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools – Vision Statement, page 3

The Values Education initiative includes:

  • The National Framework for Values Education: provides a context, an underpinning vision for values education, a set of values for Australian schooling, and guiding principles, key elements and approaches to support schools implement values education
  • Values Education Curriculum and Professional Learning Resources: an integrated package of resources to support values education in schools, encompassing a wide range of print, audiovisual and electronic resources for all levels and distributed to every school in Australia;
  • Values Education Good Practice Schools Project: Stage 1 and Stage 2: a programme to determine what constitutes evidence of good practice in values education as a way of fostering and supporting improved values education practice in Australian school; and
  • Values in Action Schools Project - a program in which funded cluster school projects will build on current understandings in effective values education practice and, through action research, develop deeper knowledge about evidence-based approaches that will embed improved values education practice in Australian schools.

The Values Education website is a portal to resources for values education, including news, events, articles, links, school forum snapshots, lesson plans and co-curricular activities, and the following materials:

Other aspects of the Values Education initiative include:

  • Values Education School Forums: supporting schools to develop their own approaches to values education in partnership with their local communities;
  • Partnership projects: with parents, principals, teachers and teacher educators; and a
  • National Forum:exploring current and future directions in values education in Australia and internationally.

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