Values Formation and You Values Formation and You

Prepared by:Atienza, Joan R.

Bachelor of Secondary Education IIIGolden Gate Colleges

The Teaching ProfessionThe Teaching Profession

“ Is there such thing as RIGHT, UNCHANGING and UNIVERSAL values? ”

Idealist Point of View

There are unchanging and universal values.

The values of love, care, and concern for our fellowmen are values for all people regardless of time and space.

These are called transcendent values

Relativist Point of View

Claim that there are no universal and unchanging values. They assert that values are dependent on time and place.

“ Are values TAUGHT or CAUGHT? ”

Values are TAUGHT!

Values are CAUGHT...

Cognitive Affective

Behavioral

DIMENSIONS

3 Dimensions of Values Cognitive Dimension - Mental understanding and readiness

Affective Dimension - Experience toward something

Behavioral dimension - Living by the value

Value formation is a training of the Intellect

and willYour intellect discerns a value and presents it to

the will as a right or wrong value.

Your will wills to act on the right value and wills to avoid the wrong value presented by your intellect.

As described by St. Thomas Aquinas,

“The intellect proposes and the will disposes”

It is clear that “nothing is willed unless it first known”. Thought must precede the deliberation of the will. An object is willed as it is known by the intellect and proposed to the will as desirable and good. Hence the “formal and adequate object of the will is good as apprehended by the intellect”, (William Kelly, 1965)

It is, therefore, necessary that you develop your intellect in its 3 functions namely:

Formation of ideas Judgment Reasoning

Virtuous versus vicious life and their affect on the will

Max Scheler’s Hierarchy of Values

Values of the Holy

Spiritual Values

Vital Values

Pleasure Values

Pleasure Values - the pleasant against the

unpleasant- The agreeable against the

disagreeable * sensual feelings * experience of pleasure or pain

Vital Values- values pertaining to the well being either

of the individual or of the community * health * vitality

- values of vital feeling * capability * excellence

Spiritual Values- Values independent of the whole sphere

of the body and of the environment;

- grasped in spiritual acts of preferring loving and hating

* Aesthetic values: beauty against ugliness * Values of right and wrong * Values of pure knowledge

Values of the Holy- Appear only in regard to objects

intentionally given as “absolute objects”

* Belief * Adoration * Bliss

Values Clarification1.Did you choose it freely?2. Did you choose it from among

alternatives?3. Did you choose it after thoughtful

consideration of the consequences of your choice?

4. Do you cherish it?5. Do you affirm it publicly?6. Do you act on it?7. Do you act on it

repeatedly/habitually?

References:The Teaching Profession Book

http://www.gtcs.org.uk/professional-standards/the-standards/professional-values-into-action.aspx