The Australian Values Education Journey: Leading change, shaping futures, building community.

The 2008 National Values Education Forum was held on the 29th and 30th May and brought together keynote speakers, International panellists, stakeholders, teachers, parents, principals and students to:

• Explore the implementation of the National Framework for Values Education in Australian schools as the basis for the implementation of values education in schools;
• Provide an update to participants on the Values Education Program;
• Share good practice in values education in Australian schools;
• Involve student voice in values education;
• Draw together the research findings of the Program since 2005; and
• Facilitate discussion about future directions for values education.
  

Workshops and presentations provided the impetus for discussion on current and future directions in values education in Australia and internationally with targeted input from speakers from South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Values Education Forum Presentations

Keynote Presentations:

• Positive psychology, positive education and public policy
  - Professor Martin Seligman, Directeor, Positive Psychology Centre, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Values and learning: Twin sides of the same coin or different currencies?
  - Dr Ruth Deakin Crick, University of Bristol, UK
• Exploring the purposes, complexities and future of Values Education
  - Dr Andy Furco, University of Minnesota, USA
• The thread that binds: Values Education in South Africa
  - Nazareen Dasoo, University of Joohannesburg, South Africa

Workshop Presentations:

• Values, technology and relational literacy
  - Dr Janet Smith, University of Canberra, ACT
• Building and sustaining an R-12 Service Learning Program
  - Lynne Moten, Edmund Rice Ministeries Cluster, Rostrevor College, SA
  Accompanying Video
• Engage or enrage: Embedding Values Education using a whole school approach at Seaford 6-12 School
  - Marion MacKenzie, Seaford 6-12 School, SA (Sea and Vines Cluster)
• Shaping futures: Exploring the importance of Values Education with pre-service teachers
  - Deborah Henderson, Queensland University of Technology
• What is Values Education telling us about education in general?
  - Professor Terry Lovat, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Newcastle and
  - Professor Ron Toomey, Adjunct Professor, Australian Catholic University
• Student action teams: Students leading in investigating values in schools and communities
  - Roger Holdsworth, Senior Research Associate, University of Melbourne and
  - Sue Cahill, St Charles Borromeo Primary School, VIC
• Values and other conversations
  - Gary Shaw, Victorian Values Education Project OfficerConnecting story, values and place

Other Presentations:

• Values Education Good Practice Schools - Stage 2 Project - Barbara Bereznecki, Curriculum Corporation