Giving Voice to the Impacts of Values Education The Final Report of ...

This project exemplifies a number of the
principles noted in the VEGPSP Stage 2
project work:
• the importance of values-focused, studentcentred
pedagogies in the curriculum
• developing values education as an
integrated curriculum concept
• explicitly teaching values so that students
develop an understanding and capacity to
practise and test their values
• the importance of providing teachers with
targeted professional development to
support values education teaching.
Key outcomes
• Students acquired a deeper understanding of their own values, took responsibility for their values
and developed agency in articulating them.
• Teachers developed more confidence in teaching values explicitly and in designing curricular and
co-curricular projects around values education.
• The project was expanded to a whole school approach, which included parents and school
leadership in further project work.
• The importance of values conversations in the development of student leadership skills, resilience
and confidence has encouraged the schools to develop innovative strategic plans for future
collaboration on values education.
• There is evidence that the way the project enabled parents to become involved in the work in an
authentic way – discussing values with their children at home and also reflecting on ways values
might shape future directions at school – has had positive impacts for students, families and
the schools.
• The project established a collaborative ethos within the cluster, which will be sustained into
the future.
Section 3: Accounts of the VASP cluster projects
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