Higher Education for Professional and Civic Values: A Critical Review and Analysis
Abstract
:1. Introduction: The Context of Values-Education in Higher Education
2. Situating Values-Education within Learning and Teaching
3. Experiential Learning
4. Role Models
5. Assessment and Evaluation
6. Critical Insights into Values Education
7. Critical Thinking
8. Discussion
Student to Professor; “So what you are saying is that you expect me to develop a critical disposition that will guide my own beliefs and behaviours; but that actually you don’t trust me to do this, so instead you insist that I adopt this long list of your values, that will guide my behaviours if my own learning points me in the wrong direction.”
Professor to Student; “Put like that it doesn’t appear to be particularly sensible.”
Professor to Student; “So, we would rather say that as educators, we shall do our best to provide you with experiences that will help you to develop a critical disposition. On the way we can be clear, and critical, about the values that we value, and that broader society and the professions value; but we hope that you will use your own developing critical faculties to decide if we actually use these in our professional practice, or merely profess to do so, and to decide what you value.”
Professor to Student; “Although we are really interested in what you learn, and will do our best to monitor your progress, what you actually learn in higher education, and learn to value, is very much up to you.”
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