VALUES
DEVELOPMENT
NSTP chapter II Group 3 report
OBJECTIVES:
VALUES DEVELOPMENT
A. VALUE DEFINED
1. Value is derevied from Latin word, valere, to be worth,
be strong-something intrinsically valuable or desirable.
2. Since values are the basis of judging what attitudes and
behavior are correct and desirable and what are not.
B. VALUE SYSTEMS: VARIOUS VIEWS
The meaning of values
According to Clyde Kluckholm: “A value is a conception, explicit or
implicit, distinctive of an individual or characteristics of a group, of
the desirable which influences the selection fro available modes,
means and ends of action.”
According to Cornelius Van Der Poel: “Value refers to the
understanding of a certain good for an individual or society which is
considered worthy or realization.”
According to Brian Hall, Michael Kenny, and Maury Smith: Value is
“something that is freely chosen from alternatives and is acted upon,
that which the individual celebrates as being part of the creative
integration in development as a person.”
C. VALUES EDUCATION
Values Education is the process by which values are formed in the learner
under the guidance of the teachers and parents as he/she interacts with
his/her environment.
1. Values as subject matter must have a direct and immediate relevance to the
personal life of the learner
2. The process must involve all the faculties of the learners. It must not just be
cognitive. It must appeal not only to the mind but to the heart, recognizing
the total human person
3. The teacher’s and parent’s personal values play important roles in values
learning.
D. THE WHY, WHEN, WHERE, WHO, WHAT, AND HOW
IN TEACHING VALUES
[Link]? Value should be taught to all ages with
1. Why teach values? because it is the most differing agendas and changing emphasis as one
significant and effective gets nature. Teach values now and always.
because our parents thing to attain happiness [Link]? Values are best taught in the home, in
tried to teach them to us either the positive or the negative sense. It can be
far more influential than what is taught in school.
because they are what [Link]? Parents are the crucial examplses and
makes our society safe instructors of values. They are the general contractor.
and workable The teachers, the institution, and organizations are
considered as subcontractors serving as supplement,
support, and back up of parents.
because it helps
develop a sense of [Link]? Decide which values to teach. Choose a
autonomy, teaching system that will help you decide what to
teach.
independence, and
confidence 6. HOW? There are methods especially designed in
teaching values to pre-schoolers, elementary ages,
adolescents, and community people.
E. Importance of Teaching Values
1. Values are extremely powerful.
2. Values have to do with being and with giving.
3. The values of being (who we are) are honesty, courage, peacebility, self-reliance, discipline,
and fidelity.
F. The Values of Being and Giving (Linda Eyre, et al., 1993)
1. On values of Being. The following are 2. On Values of Giving. The following
values of being: are values of giving:
Honesty Loyalty and Dependability
Courage Respect
Peaceability Love
Self-Reliance and Potential Unselfishness and Sensibility
Self-discipline and moderation Kindness and Friendship
Fidelity and Chastity Justice and Mercy