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Title

Odgoj i obrazovanje za vrijednosti (Values education)

Author(s)

Rakic, Vini;  Vukusic, Svjetlana

Abstract

Values education is a field where there is a lot of disagreement and lack of clear views, especially related to approaches and methods of teaching, values that should be transmitted and the role of teachers and schools in this process. This article gives a brief review of those questions and answers, guided by an intention to recognize and offer some explanations of theoretical and practical problems that education faces in the process of implementing values into the educational system. Two of the most influential but opposite approaches in values education are depicted - direct approach or character education and cognitive-developmental approach - with an overview of a possible reconciliation of their differences. Also, the UN decade of education for sustainable development is given as an example where an emphasis on values in education gets a special role as it gives a framework for education that is directed not only towards environmental protection but also towards protection and survival of global society.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Brain Sciences Institute

Source

Drustvena Istrazivanja (Journal for General Social Issues), Vol. 19, no. 4-5 (Oct 2010), pp. 771-795

Publication year

2010

FOR Code(s)

1608 Sociology

Keyword(s)

Character education;  Cognitive-developmental approach;  Education for sustainable development;  Universal values;  Values

Publisher

Institut Drustvenih Znanosti lvo Pilar (Institute of Social Sciences lvo Pilar)

Language

Croatian

ISSN

1330-0288

Publisher URL

http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=90544&lang=en

Copyright

Copyright © 2010. This is an open access journal; all content is freely accessible to all users.

Peer reviewed