Values education through thinking, feeling and doing

More and more sense a need for the purpose of education to be more than just knowledge acquisition. Values and morality are an integral part of our lives and should for this reason be carefully integrated into educational contexts. For values to become ‘owned’ by students, however, opportunities must be provided for them to actively and critically construct our so-called shared values. Imaginative teaching is a constructivist way of engaging learners emotionally in values-based education; and service learning, or a ‘curriculum of giving’, is a practical manifestation of sharing and caring, thus teaching students our core values through activity and doing – the most natural means of expression in children and adolescent learners.