1 The Instrumentalist Curse: 'NAPLAN must go!' -- 2 Values as Implicit and Explicit: The Two-sided Coin of Values Pedagogy -- 3 Findings from the Values Pedagogy Projects -- 4 Features of the Learning Ambience created by Values Pedagogy: Calmness, Positive Relationships and Safety & Security -- 5 Service Learning -- 6 The Theorist and the Practitioners -- 7 Concluding Thoughts.

This book summarizes and updates findings from the Australian Values Education Program with a focus on the latest international research in the field, both theoretical and practice-based. Further, it provides a theoretical and practical basis for understanding the disenchantment with low-level accountability approaches to learning (e.g. NAPLAN in Australia). In turn, the book demonstrates the effectiveness of Values Education as a holistic pedagogy with the potential to enhance students’ learning effects in terms of their personal, social, emotional and academic development. It offers well-tested alternative pedagogical approaches, based on research insights largely originating from actual classroom-based practice.