Values Education and Quality Teaching The Double Helix Effect /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lovat, Terry (Editor), Toomey, Ron (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Learning & Instruction.; Educational Psychology.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Sociology of Education.

Values Education and Quality Teaching: The Double Helix Effect reports on the results of two of the major projects in the Australian Government’s Values Education Program. These results point to the fact that Values Education can no longer be seen as marginal to the main role of teaching and schooli...

Table of Contents:

• Values Education and Quality Teaching: Two Sides of the Learning Coin
• Perspectives from Research and Practice in Values Education
• Student Action Teams, Values Education and Quality Teaching and Learning—Case Study from the Manningham Cluster, Victoria
• Placing Values at the Centre of School Policy and Classroom Practice—A Case Study of Modbury School, South Australia
• Moving Values Beyond the Half Hour: Peer Leadership and School Vision—A Case Study of the Townsville Cluster, Queensland
• Valuing Diversity in Children’s Voice: A Case Study of Children, Stewardship and Mapping the Care of Special Places in the Western Australian Cluster
• Values and Quality Teaching at West Kidlington Primary School
• A Perfect Match: Living Values Educational Program and Aventura City of Excellence School, USA
• The Double Helix and Its Implications for the Professional Lifelong Learning of Teachers.