Values as the Pedagogy: Countering Instrumentalism

Title: Values as the Pedagogy: Countering Instrumentalism
Creator: Lovat, Terence
Relation: Pedagogy in Basic and Higher Education: Current Developments and Challenges
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.86823
Publisher: IntechOpen
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2020
Description: The chapter sets out to identify ways in which the dominant pedagogy in the west has been shaped and influenced by instrumentalist imperatives emanating from the high age of logical positivism. It will furthermore expose the harm that has been done to education as a result, limitations on learning that are most apparent with the insights of updated sciences. The chapter will propose a values approach to pedagogy as a way of countering the narrow bounds of instrumentalism with an approach that possesses greater potential to address the whole person and the full range of human development measures, including personal, social, emotional, moral, spiritual and academic learning. The chapter will utilize international research that supports the beneficial claims of values pedagogy, with special reference to data from the Australian Values Education Program
Subject: values; pedagogical approaches; curricular approaches; holistic education
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1462236
Identifier: uon:46416
Identifier: ISBN:9781838802684
Language: eng