Paper for the Sixteenth Annual Conference of The Hong
Kong Educational Research Association "Exploring New
Frontiers in Education", Hong Kong, China, October 1999
This
paper was presented at the Eighth UNESCO-APEID
International Conference on Education, under Innovations in
Secondary Education:Meeting
the Needs of Adolescents and Youth in Asia and the Pacific.
The conference was held in Bangkok, Thailand, 26th
to 29th November 2002.
This paper was presented at
the Ninth UNESCO-APEID International Conference on Education, in
Shanghai, China, 4th to 7th
November 2003, as part of Educational Innovations for Development in Asia
and the Pacific: Quality education for all-round human development.
Published in the 2001 International Focus Issue of Childhood
Education, this article describes the approach used in this Living Values program
for refugees and children affected by was as well as its implementation in a Karen refugee camp.
This
paper explores how children and youth can be encouraged to
explore and develop values in today's world. The
importance of a values-based atmosphere is shared, and the
sequence of activities used in the Living Values Education model
are described.
This
paper, by the primary author of LVEP's Living Values Series of
books, shares the theoretical underpinnings of this program
along with some of the current research that supports this
approach to values education. The rationale for including
various types of activities with Living Values Education are
delineated.
Encouraging positive values in our children
Honesty - Truthfulness - Respect - Happiness - Peace - Responsibility -
Love
These key concepts form part of a remarkable initiative lead by head
teacher, Neil Hawkes, at West Kidlington Primary School, Oxford. Here a
quiet revolution is in process: teaching children how to deal with complex
situations from a position of strength and self-respect, and how to
develop a stable inner world.
