If you want evidence of the success of a values-based approach to teaching and learning then download this article from Bridget Knight who has inspired Herefordshire schools to become values-based. She is currently on secondment to QCDA in the UK.
Now Neil Hawkes and the Values Education Trust bring you a completely revised and up to date issue of “The Values Education Folder”. It provides insight and all the information needed to establish an effective Values Education programme in your school.
The research describes how values-based schools give increasing curriculum and teaching emphasis to Values Education. As a consequence students become more academically diligent, the school assumes a calmer, more peaceful ambience, better student-teacher...
My experience, as a former Headteacher of West Kidlington School in the UK, is that when a school seriously develops the moral and spiritual aspects of the curriculum (that is, those that positively contribute to the inner world of thoughts, feelings and emotions of the teacher and the pupil)..
They love their children and they love their staff, and they love their work! They are people who seem to have endless reserves of altruism, coupled with what one member of staff called 'a phenomenal capacity for caring'. They create a nurturing ethos in which individuals feel distinct, recognised and valued. Their benevolence makes a marked difference to the lives of others forever.”
What is values based education
Values education folder (download)
The Quiet Revolution by Frances Farrer
The Little Book of Values by Julie Duckworth
Listen to Neil Hawkes' latest radio interview
