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Values Education Good Practice Schools Project - Stage 2: Final Report

At the Heart of What We Do: Values Education at the Centre of Schooling – The Final Report of the Values Education Good Practice Schools Project – Stage 2, August 2008 is a report of the learnings and outcomes of the Values Education Good Practice Schools Project – Stage 2 (VEGPSP 2).

Values Education Good Practice Schools Project - Stage 2: Final ReportVEGPSP – Stage 2 built on the work of Stage 1 and involved the funding of 25 school clusters, comprising 143 schools across Australia, to design, implement and evaluate quality projects in values education through action research. The projects in Stage 2 also centred on demonstrating good practice for implementing values education with some clusters having a particular emphasis on integrating values education in teaching programs in or across key learning areas (KLAs) or exploring values education in intercultural and global contexts.

At the Heart of What We Do: Values Education at the Centre of Schooling – The Final Report of the Values Education Good Practice Schools Project – Stage 2 identifies ten principles of good practice in values education for Australian schools. (A number of the Stage 2 findings about good practice directly reflect some of the Stage 1 recommendations to schools and these have not been repeated.) The Final Report also contains synopses of Cluster Projects which capture the key activities, approaches, evaluative reflections and voices of key participants in the projects.

Ten principles of good practice in values education

  1. Establish and consistently use a common and shared values language across the school.
  2. Use pedagogies that are values-focused and student-centred within all curriculum.
  3. Develop values education as an integrated curriculum concept, rather than as a program, an event or an addition to the curriculum.
  4. Explicitly teach values so that students know what the values mean and how the values are lived.
  5. Implicitly model values and explicitly foster the modelling of values.
  6. Develop relevant and engaging values approaches connected to local and global contexts and which offer real opportunity for student agency.
  7. Use values education to consciously foster intercultural understanding, social cohesion and social inclusion.
  8. Provide teachers with informed, sustained and targeted professional learning and foster their professional collaborations.
  9. Encourage teachers to take risks in their approaches to values education.
  10. Gather and monitor data for continuous improvement in values education.
     

The Final Report and an executive summary are available for downloading.

Download The Final Report for Values Education Good Practice Schools Project – Stage 2