Values Education
Theory, Practice, Problems, Prospects
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1975
- Category
- Aims & Objectives, Educational Psychology, Essays
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780889206854
- Publish Date
- Sep 1975
- List Price
- $32.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889200159
- Publish Date
- Sep 1975
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
Values—those intangible guideposts—serve as standards and perceptual screens which assist us in selecting our priorities for reflection and action. Our quest is to clarify, compare, and form values expressed in defensible and consistent value judgements and actions.
About the authors
John R. Meyer is the Director of the Values Education Centre in Burlington, Ontario.
Brian Burnham, who was educated at the Universities of Toronto, London and Stockholm, was formerly Head of the History Department, York Memorial Collegiate. As Assistant to the Director of the Ontario Curriculum Institute, Mr. Burnham edited many of the original study reports. At the merger he became Staff Project Director, Office of Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
John Cholvat is the Research Officer of the Halton Board of Education in Burlington, Ontario.