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.

Demonstrates the effectiveness of Values Education Offers recent research insights from fields such as neuroscience and perspectives across international regimes Positions Values Education as an alternative to broad literacy and numeracy assessment programs such as Australia's NAPLAN

Autorentext
Terence Lovat was the Chief Investigator in the research and practice projects that ran as part of the government-funded Australian Values Education Program (2003-2010). He is an extensively published academic author, including many books and journal articles arising from his Values Education work. He is also a regular keynote speaker at international conferences, chiefly on Values Education.

Inhalt
1 The Instrumentalist Curse: 'NAPLAN must go!'.- 2 Values as Implicit and Explicit: The Two-sided Coin of Values Pedagogy.- 3 Findings from the Values Pedagogy Projects.- 4 Features of the Learning Ambience created by Values Pedagogy: Calmness, Positive Relationships and Safety & Security.- 5 Service Learning.- 6 The Theorist and the Practitioners.- 7 Concluding Thoughts.