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Values are central to our thinking, decision making and ultimately our actions and behaviour – and lie at the heart of everything that takes place in schools.
** What are values? ** They are the principles, fundamental convictions and standards that, over time, shape and form the reference points for how we live our lives. The Human Values Foundation (HVF) provides two exciting, well structured programmes each with a simple but very effective framework for exploring, developing and practising real-life values, based upon the universal values of Truth, Peace, Love, Right Action and Non-violence.
** What is values education? ** It is a learning process that promotes the understanding of values and develops the attitudes, skills and knowledge that enable individuals to live their chosen values as members of their various communities, applying them for example in their families, education environments, workplaces and within transnational organisations. [continue reading»]
We have some excellent news for teachers, saving hours of research, easing the task of designing and implementing an inspiring, modern curriculum that will help boost performance, enhance wellbeing, improve the outcomes for all pupils and their schools and provide children with a well-rounded, values-based school experience. Education in Human Values (“EHV”), published by the Human Values Foundation, is a fully resourced, well structured, ready-to-teach values education programme, designed for early years and primary schools (ie ages 4 to 12) and highly acclaimed worldwide. [continue reading»]
The Human Values Foundation provides widely acclaimed, practical resources, enabling schools to deliver to their pupils, an enjoyable values-based education and we are delighted to be involved in the Memory4Teachers campaign, bringing together so effectively, practitioners and key decision makers in the education sector and those keen to contribute to a high quality education experience for young people, in all its facets. [continue reading»]
The Trustees of the Human Values Foundation (HVF) are delighted to announce that Dr Anthony Seldon, one of the most famous and inspiring head teachers in the country — and a pioneer — has agreed to support the HVF as Education Advisor. [continue reading»]
Having worked for 20 years with Special Needs children in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, I retired from teaching. I joined the Human Values Foundation (HVF) in 2004 and began to introduce its values program, called Education in Human Values (EHV), to the public school system in B.C. [continue reading»]
The year 1994 was an epochal year in the history of South Africa. It was the year that signalled the end of apartheid in this stunningly beautiful but hitherto traumatised land. [continue reading»]