Education, Culture And Values: Including Volumes One To Six (values, Culture And Education Series) (vol 1-6)

A comprehensive treatment of the current concern with values in education. In six volumes, a team of over 120 contributors and experts from around the world examine the issues and place them in a context of culture and diversity. Volumes 1 to 3 provide a wide-ranging consideration of the diversity of values in education at all levels, and thus represents a framework for the focus of Volumes 4 to 6, which focus more specifically on values education (moral, religious, spiritual and political). Overall the six volumes bring together the fundamental domain of values with the important issue of pluralism and the world of independent cultural traditions, to generate new, fruitful and progressive reflection and exemplars of good practice. Handsomely bound and printed they are an essential reference tool and represent a significant contribution of interest and benefit to educators, policy makers, parents, academics, researchers and student teachers. "Institutional Issues: Pupils, Schools and Teacher Education considers values and culture at the institutional level. What constitutes a good 'whole school' approach in a particular area? There are discussions of key issues and reports of whole-school initiatives from around the world. Several chapters focus on the vital issue of teacher education."--Jacket Vol 1. Systems of education : theories, policies and implicit values v. 2. Institutional issues : pupils, schools and teacher education v. 3. Classroom issues : practice, pedagogy and curriculum v. 4. Moral education and pluralism v. 5. Spiritual and religious education v. 6. Politics, education and citizenship. "Systems of Education: Theories, Policies and Implicit Values is concerned with the theoretical and conceptual framework for reflecting about values, culture and education and thus provides an introduction to the series as a whole. It is concerned with state and policy level analysis across the world."--Jacket In the context of cultural pluralism, volumes 1-3 deal with values diversity in education covering the levels of systems, institution and classroom; volumes 4-6 focus on moral education, religious and spiritual education, and political and citizenship education.