Values Education and Quality Teaching
. Ed(S): Lovat, Terry; Toomey, Ron
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Description for Values Education and Quality Teaching
Hardback. This book reports on the results of the Australian Government's Values Education Program that illustrate the vital role played by relationships of care, trust and respect with teachers if students are to achieve both academically and more broadly. Editor(s): Lovat, Terry; Toomey, Ron. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JNC; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 990.
Some revision of public schooling history is necessary to challenge the dominant mythology that public schools were established on the grounds of values-neutrality. In fact, those responsible for the foundations of public education in Australia were sufficiently pragmatic to know that its success relied on its charter being in accord with public sentiment. Part of the pragmatism was in convincing those whose main experience of education had been through some form of church-based education that state-based education was capable of meeting the same ends. Hence, the documents of the 1870s and 1880s that contained the charters of the various state ... Read more
Some revision of public schooling history is necessary to challenge the dominant mythology that public schools were established on the grounds of values-neutrality. In fact, those responsible for the foundations of public education in Australia were sufficiently pragmatic to know that its success relied on its charter being in accord with public sentiment. Part of the pragmatism was in convincing those whose main experience of education had been through some form of church-based education that state-based education was capable of meeting the same ends. Hence, the documents of the 1870s and 1880s that contained the charters of the various state ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402099618
SKU
V9781402099618
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Ref
99-15
About . Ed(S): Lovat, Terry; Toomey, Ron
Terry Lovat is Professor of Education and Pro Vice-Chancellor at The University of Newcastle. He is chief investigator on the Australian Government Partnerships Project in Values Education with the Australian Council of Deans of Education, and is a consultant on several other Values Education projects funded by the Australian Government. Ron Toomey is an Adjunct Professor in the ... Read more
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