The aim of this book is to provide an easily accessible, practical yet scholarly source of information about the international concern for the nature, theory and practices of the ideas of values education and lifelong learning. Each chapter in this book is written in an accessible style by an international expert in the field. The book tackles the task of identifying, analyzing and addressing the key problems, topics and issues relevant to education and Lifelong Learning.

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InhaltsangabeThe Ontology of Values and Values Education.- Opening the Road to Values Education.- The Ethics of Lifelong Learning and its Implications for Values Education.- Values Education in Context.- Rational Autonomy as an Educational Aim.- Avoiding Bad Company: The Importance of Moral Habitat and Moral Habits in Moral Education.- How Cognitive and Neurobiological Sciences Inform Values Education for Creatures Like us.- Challenges for Values Education Today: In Search of a Humanistic Approach for the Cultivation of the Virtue of Private Citizenship.- Combining Values and Knowledge Education.- Formalizing Institutional Identity: A Workable Idea?.- Values Education: The Missing Link in Quality Teaching and Effective Learning.- A Vision Splendid?.- "What Kinds of People are We?": Values Education After Apartheid.- Anti-egoistic School Leadership: Ecologically Based Value Perspectives for the 21st Century.- Teaching for a Better World: The Why and How of Student-initiated Curricula.- The Neglected Role of Religion and Worldview in Schooling for Wisdom, Character, and Virtue.- Clusters and Learning Networks: A Strategy for Reform in Values Education.- Values Education and Lifelong Learning: Policy Challenge.- Lifelong Learning in Asia: Eclectic Concepts, Rhetorical Ideals, and Missing Values. Implications for Values Education.- Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, and Democratic Values: Evoking and Shaping an Inclusive Imagination.- Whole-School Approaches to Values Education: Models of Practice in Australian Schools.

Acknowledgements.- Preface.- Foreword.- 1. David N. Aspin: The Ontology of Values and Values Education.- 2. Gerhard Zecha: Opening the Road to Values Education.- 3. Richard Bagnall: The Ethics of Lifelong Learning and its Implications for Values Education.- 4. Ivan Snook: Values Education in Context.- 5. Jim Mackenzie: Rational Autonomy as an Educational Aim.- 6. Janis (John) Ozolins: Avoiding Bad Company: The Importance of Moral Habitat and Moral Habits in Moral Education.- 7. Darcia Narvaez: How Cognitive and Neurobiological Sciences inform Values Education for Creatures like Us.- 8. Duck-joo Kwak: Challenges for Values Education Today: In Search of a Humanistic Approach for the Cultivation of the Virtues of Private Citizenship.- 9. Jean-Luc Patry, Sieglinde Weyringer and Alfred Weinberger: Combining Values and Knowledge Education.- 10. J L (Hannes) van der Walt: Formalising Institutional Identity: A Workable Idea?.- 11. Terry Lovat: Values Education: The Missing Link in Quality Teaching and Effective (Lifelong) Learning.- 12. David Brown: A Vision Splendid: The National Initiative in Values Education for Australian Schooling.- 13. Penny Enslin and Shirley Pendlebury.- Virtues and Vices in a New Democracy: Values Education after Apartheid.- 14. Larry Sackney and Keith Walker: Ecologically-based Leadership Values for the 21st Century.- 15. Joanna Swann: Teaching for a Better World: The Why and How of Student-initiated Curricula.- 16. Neville Carr and Julie Mitchell: Challenges Facing Values Education in Victorian Schools: A Christian Perspective.- 17. Judith Chapman and Ron Toomey with Sue Cahill, Maryanne Davis and Janet Gaff: Clusters and Learning Networks: A Strategy for Reform in Values Education Schools.- 18. Susan Pascoe: A Renaissance of Values Education in Australian Schools.- 19. Wing On Lee: The Irony of Values in Lifelong Learning in Asia: The Dominance of Economic Values over Humanistic Values.- 20. Peter Willis: Lifelong Learning, Adult Education and Democratic Values: Evoking and Shaping an Inclusive Imagination.- 21. Libby Tudball: Whole-school approaches to Values Education.- Index.