Values Education and Quality Teaching

Terry Lovat is Professor of Education and Pro Vice-Chancellor at The University of Newcastle. He is chief investigator on the Australian Government Partnerships Project in Values Education with the Australian Council of Deans of Education, and is a consultant on several other Values Education projects funded by the Australian Government. Ron Toomey is an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Lifelong Learning at Australian Catholic University. He manages the Australian Council of Deans of Education Values Education Project as well as the research aspects of the Values Education Good Practice Schools Project for Curriculum Corporation Australia.

• Values Education and Quality Teaching: Two Sides of the Learning Coin.- Perspectives from Research and Practice in Values Education.- Student Action Teams, Values Education and Quality Teaching and Learning—Case Study from the Manningham Cluster, Victoria.- Placing Values at the Centre of School Policy and Classroom Practice—A Case Study of Modbury School, South Australia.- Moving Values Beyond the Half Hour: Peer Leadership and School Vision—A Case Study of the Townsville Cluster, Queensland.- Valuing Diversity in Children’s Voice: A Case Study of Children, Stewardship and Mapping the Care of Special Places in the Western Australian Cluster.- Values and Quality Teaching at West Kidlington Primary School.- A Perfect Match: Living Values Educational Program and Aventura City of Excellence School, USA.- The Double Helix and Its Implications for the Professional Lifelong Learning of Teachers.