Approaches in Teaching Values Education: Inculcation Approach
Approaches in Teaching Values Education: Inculcation Approach
Approaches in Teaching Values Education: Inculcation Approach
MAJOR APPROACHES
Inculcation
Value Clarification
Moral Development
Value Analysis
Transpersonal
Rest and relaxation exercises, meditation and brief fantasizing, imagination, creativity and mind
games, self-awareness activities
Action Learning
Inculcation Approach
Students are forced to act according to specific desired values. A positive and negative reinforcement by
the teacher helps value inculcation. This can be done by a teacher’s natural actions and responses.
Rationale
• Abraham Maslow is its major proponent. He believed that every human being is capable of
attaining self-actualization through the valuing process.
• Self-actualization in an ongoing process of using one’s innate capacities and potentials in full,
creative and joyful ways.
Purposes of Values Clarification:
• To help students become aware of and identify their own values and those of others.
• To help students use both rational thinking and emotional awareness to examine their
personal feelings, values and behavior patterns.
For something to be considered as a value using the clarification approach, the person must go through
the seven (7) criteria of the valuing process
• choosing freely;
• prizing;
• affirming in public;
• acting consistently
• Urge students to discuss the reasons for their value choices and positions
Pre-conventional Morality
Conventional Morality
I will do what I am supposed to do as things work out better when everyone follows the rules.
Post-conventional Morality
I will do (or won’t do) what I am supposed to do because I think (or don’t think) it is the right
thing to do.
VALUES ANALYSIS
Help student’s use logical thinking and scientific investigation procedures in dealing with social issues,
especially values education issues.
The individual is regarded as a rational being in the world who can attain the highest good by
subordinating feelings and passions to logic and scientific method.
ACTION LEARNING
To provide students with opportunities and chances to discover and act on their values.
To encourage students to view themselves as personal-social interactive beings, not fully autonomous,
but members of a community or social system.
Values are assumed to have their sources in society or in the individual but in the interaction
between the person and the society.
Derived from a perspective that it is important to move beyond thinking and feeling to acting.
Related to the efforts of some social studies educators to emphasize community-based rather than
classroom-based learning experiences
Place more emphasis on action- taking inside and outside the classroom;
Values are seen in the interaction between the person and society; and A problem-solving/decision
making model.
Transpersonal Approaches
ACES Approach
(Affective, Cognitive, Experience for Self-Learning)
Puts a heavy premium on the affective development of the students not because the affective scope
precedes the other dimensions, but because the former serves as the most vital force in the integration
of the students personality for a fuller and viable way of life.