Developing values in primary classrooms and the place of the humanities |
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| Authors: | Sue Cox |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UKs.p.cox@uea.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTIn this article, I discuss how the context of children’s classroom activities and the quality of their participation and agency are key to learning around values. These pedagogical approaches lie in a socio-cultural theoretical framework which I use to show how ‘empowered’ participation in classrooms and in enquiry activities in curriculum areas is bound up with learning democratic values. Focusing on humanities subjects, I show how such values-based democratic pedagogical approaches in these areas of the curriculum (along with others) can be transformative, promoting values education, personal agency and social change. |
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| Keywords: | Values primary curriculum participation democratic approaches agency humanities |
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