curriculum enhancements for values enrichment

CURRICULUM ENHANCEMENTS FOR VALUES ENRICHMENT; DOES IT MATTER?KENYA PRIMARY SCHOOLS HEAD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION (KEPSHA) CONFERENCE 11TH - 13TH APRIL 2016 Voi Mombasa, KenyaTHEME: INTEGRATION OF VALUES IN EDUCATION: OUR CHILDREN, OUR PRIORITY, OUR FUTURE LEADERSSPEAKER: Dr. Gioko Maina

ENRITCH THE MINDKNOWLEDGEWARM THE HEART FEELINGS

AWAKEN THE SPIRITCONSCIOUSNESS

SCHOOL TRANSFORMATION • INTROSPECTION

• INQUIRY

• INCLUSION

• INNOVATION

• IMPLEMENTATION

• INSIGHT

Six I’s

VBE• Education opens up our mind, but Value-Based Education (VBE) gives us purity

of heart too.• Education provides us with skills, but VBE provides us sincerity too. • Education extends our relationship with the world, but VBE links us with our own

family members too. • Education makes our living better, but VBE makes our life better too.• Education teaches us to compete with others, but VBE encourages us to be

complete too.• Education makes us a good professional, but VBE makes us a whole human too.• Education takes us to the top, but VBE takes the whole society to the top. • Education gives us capacity of better learning, but VBE gives us the tool for a

deeper understanding too.• Education may bring limitations but VBE is for liberation.

"THE REAL DIFFICULTY IS THAT PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT EDUCATION TRULY IS. WE ASSESS THE VALUE OF EDUCATION IN THE SAME MANNER AS WE ASSESS THE VALUE OF LAND OR OF SHARES IN THE STOCK-EXCHANGE MARKET. WE WANT TO PROVIDE ONLY SUCH EDUCATION AS WOULD ENABLE THE STUDENT TO EARN MORE. WE HARDLY GIVE ANY THOUGHT TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CHARACTER OF THE EDUCATED. THE GIRLS, WE SAY, DO NOT HAVE TO EARN; SO WHY SHOULD THEY BE EDUCATED? AS LONG AS SUCH IDEAS PERSIST THERE IS NO HOPE OF OUR EVER KNOWING THE TRUE VALUE OF EDUCATION".

– Gandhi


• INQUIRY

• INCLUSION

• INNOVATION

• IMPLEMENTATION

• INSIGHT

Six I’s

WHY VBE• Miserable Lives

• Poor Quality of Education

• Murder, Hatred, and Selfishness have spread out like wildfire everywhere.

• Few Civilized People

• Degrees with no Dignity

• Trained Insincere People

• Books Written, Research Undertaken, Professional Achievement yet Humanity is under threat

WHY VBE

Degeneration of

values due to the

miss use of inventions

and technology

WHY VBE

Pursuing short-cuts to

success (fair or foul)

WHY VBE

Emerging

individualism

WHY VBE

Growing

Extremism and

Chauvinism

WHY VBE

Developing

Pessimisms

WHY VBE

Escalating

intolerance

WHY VBEBeing more fascinated

by the hierarchical

position that the

strength of ones

character

WHY VBE

Educating children

for grades rather

than for

knowledge

IT IS UNACCEPTABLE…


• INQUIRY

• INCLUSION

• INNOVATION

• IMPLEMENTATION

• INSIGHT

Six I’s

IMPORTANCE

• Builds positive character

• Strengthens students’ self esteem

• Helps student exercise ethical judgment and

social responsibilities

SIGNIFICANCE OF VALUES IN ACADEMICS

• Refinement• Enhancement. • Catering• Intellectual• Perceptions• Emphasis• Support

SIGNIFICANCE OF VALUES IN PROFESSION

Students will emerge:

• As a tolerant and humble professionals

• Honest and dedicated workers

• Owners of the community

• Hard strivers to make world a better

place

SIGNIFICANCE OF VALUES IN SOCIAL FIELD

Student will be able to:

• Emerge as a truth seeker

• Develop good listening skills to the other’s point of view

• Communicate well

• Emerge as more ethical leaders for the society

SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE VALUES IN INDIVIDUAL LIFE

Students will be able to:• Emerge as a humble human being• Practice the religious values, education and

ethics in their lives• Think for the mankind instead of being selfish• Practice respect for human rights and

democratic principles• Promote self reflection and critical inquiry

that foster critical thinking of ones’ value and the values of others• Learn to transform for much better visions


• INQUIRY

• INCLUSION

• INNOVATION

• IMPLEMENTATION

• INSIGHT

Six I’s

I BELIEVE…

WAYS TO INCORPORATE VALUES IN CURRICULUM

• Classroom Teaching • Through role plays• Group Studies• Projects• Debates on vales based topics• Reading and research program

• Enriching Existing Curriculum • Clubs and societies• House Council• Service Learning through community Service• Student –Exchange Programmes• Students Workshops• Monthly project on Values

• Publications –Newsletters, Magazines

• School Assembly Presentations.

• Parents Workshop

• School Development Plans

• In-service Training programmes

• Guest Speakers

• Leadership Programmes


• INQUIRY

• INCLUSION

• INNOVATION

• IMPLEMENTATION

• INSIGHT

Six I’s

OUTCOMES• A tolerant Society• Respect and Acceptance of diversity• Rise in a moral fiber of children as well as

youth• The care about environment, living beings

and human beings• Promotion of social justice• International Peace and prosperity• Positive thinking• Law abiding nation• Harmonious and Peaceful life

Teacherprenuers

Eduprenuers

"THERE IS A PART OF A CHILD'S SOUL THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN UNKNOWN BUT WHICH MUST BE

KNOWN. WITH A SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE AND ENTHUSIASM WE MUST GO IN SEARCH LIKE THOSE

WHO TRAVEL TO FOREIGN LANDS AND TEAR UP MOUNTAINS IN THEIR SEARCH FOR HIDDEN

GOLD. THIS IS WHAT THE ADULTS MUST DO WHO SEEKS THE UNKNOWN FACTOR THAT LIES

HIDDEN IN THE DEPTHS OF A CHILD'S SOUL. THIS IS A LABOR IN WHICH ALL MUST SHARE,

WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF NATION, RACE, OR SOCIAL STANDING SINCE IT MEANS THE

BRINGING FORTH OF AN INDISPENSABLE ELEMENT FOR THE MORAL PROGRESS OF MANKIND."

- Maria Montessori

CONCLUDING THOUGH

“Let there become of you a

nation that shall call for

righteousness, enjoin justice

and forbid evil. Such men will

surely triumph.” (the Holy

Quran 3: 104)