Integrating Values-Education in the Daily Disciplinary Teaching
Integrating Values-Education in the Daily Disciplinary Teaching
School Leadership Symposium ZUG, Switzerland, Sept 2009
Yael Edri and Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL
Nathan Rotenstreich 1914-1993
An Israeli philosopher Definition: What Is a Value? • Many philosophers addressed this issue. Various encyclopedia include the entry “values” with various definitions. For this study we chose Rotenstreich’s definition: • “Values are principles or norms of behavior. Value is a type of content that brings us to prefer one action over another.” (1962)
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz 1903-1994
An Israeli philosopher and scientist
The importance of a value
• “…is defined as an answer to the following question: What is the price that a person is willing to pay in order to stick to that value?; that is, in order to behave according to the value?" (1988)
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About Values-Education in the literature
Professor Shelomo Kaniel ,School of Education, University of Bar-Illan, Israel, 2008: “It is true that more emphasis on thinking skills within more school subjects will lead to an independent learner, however not to a more moral one." Professor Hayyim Adler, School of Education, Hebrew University, Israel, 2008: “Disciplinary subjects can nourish moral education, at least by illuminating their connections to educational values.”
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About Values-Education in the literature
Professor Nimrod Allony, Kibbutz College of Education, Israel, 2008 "There is a fear, that the narrow view of math education as a task without any human value, will bring-up a generation of narrow-minded pupils... Such a generation will know, possibly, how to keep the trains running on time, but may not check if that train is going to Auschwitz..."
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Integrating Values Education
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Values-Education and the
School Leadership Symposium ZUG, Switzerland, Sept 2009
Yael Edri and Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL
Nathan Rotenstreich 1914-1993
An Israeli philosopher Definition: What Is a Value? • Many philosophers addressed this issue. Various encyclopedia include the entry “values” with various definitions. For this study we chose Rotenstreich’s definition: • “Values are principles or norms of behavior. Value is a type of content that brings us to prefer one action over another.” (1962)
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Integrating Values Education
3-5.9.09
Yeshayahu Leibowitz 1903-1994
An Israeli philosopher and scientist
The importance of a value
• “…is defined as an answer to the following question: What is the price that a person is willing to pay in order to stick to that value?; that is, in order to behave according to the value?" (1988)
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Integrating Values Education
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About Values-Education in the literature
Professor Shelomo Kaniel ,School of Education, University of Bar-Illan, Israel, 2008: “It is true that more emphasis on thinking skills within more school subjects will lead to an independent learner, however not to a more moral one." Professor Hayyim Adler, School of Education, Hebrew University, Israel, 2008: “Disciplinary subjects can nourish moral education, at least by illuminating their connections to educational values.”
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About Values-Education in the literature
Professor Nimrod Allony, Kibbutz College of Education, Israel, 2008 "There is a fear, that the narrow view of math education as a task without any human value, will bring-up a generation of narrow-minded pupils... Such a generation will know, possibly, how to keep the trains running on time, but may not check if that train is going to Auschwitz..."
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Integrating Values Education
3-5.9.09
Values-Education and the