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Teaching Values

Teaching Values front cover

Topic: Values education
Type: Curriculum materials
Years: Upper primary

Key curriculum links:
Values for Australian Schooling; Investigation, Communication and Participation; Time, Continuity and Change; Culture.

Teaching Values draws on the collection of the National Museum of Australia to provide a new set of texts for teachers to share with their students as they work with the nine Values for Australian Schooling:

  • Care and compassion
  • Doing your best
  • Fair go
  • Freedom
  • Honesty and trustworthiness
  • Integrity
  • Respect
  • Responsibility
  • Understanding, tolerance and inclusion.

The texts are presented within learning sequences that allow teachers to explore the commonality of values and the ways in which we see those values in our daily lives.

Some of the sources within Teaching Values are reproduced on the following pages:

Chapter 1: Care and Compassion - these texts can be used to explore a range of possible representations and interpretations of the value 'care and compassion'.

Chapter 2: Doing your best - these texts will allow students to reflect on how societal expectations of gender can influence interpretations and definitions of 'doing your best'.

Chapter 3: Fair go - in exploring this value, students reflect on the impact that power, particularly socioeconomic power, has on the notion of a 'fair go'.

Chapter 4: Freedom - these texts help students to explore the relative and multiple meanings of freedom in different contexts.

Chapter 5: Honesty and trustworthiness - these texts allow students to reflect on how 'honesty and trustworthiness' relates to their life, and how a person's age can affect expectations of their honesty.

Chapter 6: Integrity - this learning sequence allows students to understand the value of 'integrity' in the context of human interactions with the environment.

Chapter 7: Respect - in this learning sequence students will reflect on who achieves respect and who is excluded.

Chapter 8: Responsibility - students investigate a number of texts representing different aspects of responsibility in relation to cultural identity.

Chapter 9: Understanding, tolerance and inclusion - students explore how difference, particularly religious difference, can result in discrimination; and then reflect on how to promote a more understanding, tolerant and inclusive Australia.