The benefits of Values-based Education – useful summary

Values-based Education (VbE) gives learners an ethical compass, which nurtures their capacity for authentic self-leadership that develops life-enhancing character traits. The outcomes of VbE include: quality education, positive school culture; happy, self-led staff and children, a high level of wellbeing and resilience, which all contribute to a new story of human sustainability and flourishing.
Benefits of VbE include:
School | Learner | Society | |
Academic | Improves academic diligence. | Empowers a learner to have a meaning and purpose, be motivated and self-disciplined, getting the most from their learning. | Produces well-educated learners. |
Social | High degree of relational trust between staff and learners. | Good relationship with self and others, with the capacities to take the lid off their potential. | Well-adjusted contributing members of society. |
Ethical | Positive school culture and ethos that empowers harmony, enabling each person to flourish. | Each learner l discovers their authentic self, learning to be self-led; is empowered by an understanding of a universal narrative based on positive human values. | Learners live their values. They have an altruistic, compassionate attitude to others and contribute to the good of society and the flourishing of our world. |
The VbE method:
Each school setting understands the need to underpin all aspects of its culture, curriculum and life with a deep understanding of an ethical vocabulary, based on a community agreed set of positive human values, such as respect, love, tolerance, trust, justice and empathy. Such a vocabulary develops ethical intelligence, empowering learners to live their lives using a new universal narrative.
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