VALUES
- Comes from the Latin word “valere”, which means to be strong or to be worth.
-Those standards by which a group of society judges the desirability and importance of people, ideas, actions or objects.
-shared conceptions of or beliefs in what are considered desirable or undesirable.
- Something deserving of one’s best effort, something worth living for, and if need be worth dying for.
DEFINITION OF VALUES
- Enduring conception of the preferable which influences choice and action.
- The ideals, customs, institutions, etc. of a society toward which the members of the group have an affective regard.
- Refers to the utility of a thing, the environmental conditions at the time of evaluation. - quality of anything which renders it desirable or useful. Worth implies intrinsic excellence or desirability. VALUE CLARIFICATION
PROCESSES
6 Aspects of Values
Choosing
1. Value is chosen freely.
2. Chosen among alternatives and with consideration of the consequences of choice.
VALUE CLARIFICATION
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Affirming/ Prizing
3. There’s celebration; the person is happy for his choice
4. There’s public affirmation of the choice VALUE CLARIFICATION
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Acting
5. The value must be acted upon; it must be evident in one’s behavior.
6. Acting must be repeatedly done in some fashion to a fashion to a variety of similar experiences.
FUNCTIONS OF VALUES
-provides the framework within which judgments are made. Values are guides for behavior.
- give purpose and direction to the lives of people.
- Make things desirable, satisfying, and worthy of approval. - define what are important to people, what are worth living for and if need be, what are worth dying for.
- Provide gap between knowledge and action.
- Have a primidoral place in education, in the total formation of the person
FUNCTIONS OF VALUES
-provides the framework within which judgments are made. Values are guides for behavior.
- give purpose and direction to the lives of