What is Values Clarrification
What is values clarification?
Howard Kirschenbaum (Co-Director of Sagamore Institute and Executive Director of the National Coalition for Democracy in Education, Sarasota Springs New, York) says:
I think the basic thing that values clarification does — which is to identify an important issue that has value dimensions and to provide an effective way for young people to identify their own beliefs and feelings on this issue and to share these and to interact with others — is something that is a part of quality education and something that is going to continue to take place. (Martin)
“Values clarification is one way to help students choose their values freely while maintaining an open mind.”
Through specific games and strategies, students clarify their own values (not the values of their communities or the values of Western culture).
The role of the teacher is to engage students in activities that cause them to wrestle with such issues as war, family, and the whole range of human relationships and teacher themselves are supposed to remain neutral in discussions.
Values Clarification: Pros & Cons
Pros
Promote critical thinking, rational individual choice, and public affirmation.
Values clarification - which emphasizes critical thinking, rational individual choice, and public affirmation - seems a sensible and essential remedy against authoritarian leadership wherever it might appear.
Responsible decision making.
Traditional indoctrination is inadequate in today's culture.
These valuing process in making decisions would lead more personally satisfying
Individual value development & Better equipped to adapt to society.
Through values clarification, human reason will best lead to individual value development anyway, and the child becomes better equipped to adapt to the changing cultural norm
Cons
"Values-neutral"
It is morally or ethically irresponsible to remain neutral while determining values.
Indoctrination of ethical subjectivism and
Howard Kirschenbaum (Co-Director of Sagamore Institute and Executive Director of the National Coalition for Democracy in Education, Sarasota Springs New, York) says:
I think the basic thing that values clarification does — which is to identify an important issue that has value dimensions and to provide an effective way for young people to identify their own beliefs and feelings on this issue and to share these and to interact with others — is something that is a part of quality education and something that is going to continue to take place. (Martin)
“Values clarification is one way to help students choose their values freely while maintaining an open mind.”
Through specific games and strategies, students clarify their own values (not the values of their communities or the values of Western culture).
The role of the teacher is to engage students in activities that cause them to wrestle with such issues as war, family, and the whole range of human relationships and teacher themselves are supposed to remain neutral in discussions.
Values Clarification: Pros & Cons
Pros
Promote critical thinking, rational individual choice, and public affirmation.
Values clarification - which emphasizes critical thinking, rational individual choice, and public affirmation - seems a sensible and essential remedy against authoritarian leadership wherever it might appear.
Responsible decision making.
Traditional indoctrination is inadequate in today's culture.
These valuing process in making decisions would lead more personally satisfying
Individual value development & Better equipped to adapt to society.
Through values clarification, human reason will best lead to individual value development anyway, and the child becomes better equipped to adapt to the changing cultural norm
Cons
"Values-neutral"
It is morally or ethically irresponsible to remain neutral while determining values.
Indoctrination of ethical subjectivism and