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Values Socially Shared ideas what is good, right and desirable. Beliefs about what is desirable or undesirable, values reflect the culture of a society and if an individual accept a value for him/her self it may become a goal. (International Dictionary of Education) In general, important and enduring beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture about what is good or desirable and what is not. Values exert major influence on the behavior of an individual and serve as broad guidelines in all situations. (businessdictionary.com) Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something); "he has very conservatives values (wordnetweb and free dictionary.com Types of Values 1- Instrumental values are values which are instrumental in getting us to desired ends. (Examples of instrumental values include: honesty, politeness and courage). 2- End-state values are things we actually value. This is where 'values' and 'value' meet, as we seek and value end-state values. They are the destination, whilst instrumental values control the journey there. (Examples of end-state values include: happiness, salvation and prosperity) Importance/significance Values tell people what is good, beneficial, important, useful, beautiful, desirable, constructive...etc. They answer the question of why people do what they do. Over the time, they become the roots of traditions that groups of people find important in their day to day lives. Values are an integral part of every culture. Groups, societies, or cultures have values that are largely shared by their members. The values identify those objects, conditions or characteristics that members of the society consider important; that is, valuable. Values help people solve common human problems for survival. Related concepts Goals and Values Norms and Values Sohail Ahmed www.scribd.com/soahail_ed Govt. College of Education, Karachi- M.Ed. (facebook group) 1

Govt. College of Education F.B. Area Karachi Moral and Ethics Goals and Values Goals decide our objectives. Values define the measures we are ready to adopt to achieve your objectives. Norms and Values Values: Socially sheared ideas about what is good, right and desirable. Norms: Shared rules of a society or guidelines that prescribe the behaviour appropriate in a given situation. Norms defines, how people ought to behave in a situation under particular circumstances. Norms of a society are an expression of its values. The difference between norms and values is that, value are abstract, and general concepts, where as norms are specific guide lines for the people of a society. Values are related to the norms of a culture, but they are more global and abstract than norms. Norms are rules for behavior in specific situations, while values identify what should be judged as good or evil. Flying the national flag on a national holiday is a norm, but it reflects the value of patriotism. Values Values Socially Shared ideas What to behave (good, right, desirable). Abstract General Global Norms Norms Shared rules of a society or guidelines How to behave. Concrete Specific local

Morals and Ethics Values -- an individual's accepted standards of right or wrong Morals -- society's standards of right and wrong, very similar to ethics Ethics -- a structured system of principles that govern appropriate conduct for a group, including activities such as professional ethics, compassion, commitment, cooperation The terms values, morals and ethics are often used interchangeably, but there is a fine distinction among them. Morals are what is right or wrong for an individual, values are actions a person is great at and excited by, and ethics are what is right or wrong for a culture. Morals define personal character, while ethics stress a social system in which those morals are applied. In other words, ethics point to standards or codes of behavior expected by the group to which the individual belongs. (Defending a Killer , Abortion, Interest/Credit Cards) Classification of Values Personal values are those you take for yourself and which constitute a critical part of your values and are apparent in attitudes, beliefs, and actions. Sohail Ahmed www.scribd.com/soahail_ed Govt. College of Education, Karachi- M.Ed. (facebook group) 2

Govt. College of Education F.B. Area Karachi Social values are those which put the rights of wider groups of people first. This may include equality, justice, liberty, freedom, and national pride. These are often instilled into us when we were young. Political values are ideological beliefs about the best way to govern a country or organization, for example through welfare, democracy and civic responsibility. Economic values are those around money, and may include beliefs around ownership of property, contributing to the common good (taxes!), the balance of supply and demand and so on. Religious values are spiritual in nature and include beliefs in how we should behave, including caring of one another and in worship of our deity or deities. Education and Values Values education is a term used to name several things, and there is much academic controversy surrounding it. Some regard it as all aspects of the process by which teachers (and other adults) transmit values to pupils.[1] Others see it as an activity that can take place in any organisation during which people are assisted by others, who may be older, in a position of authority or are more experienced, to make explicit those values underlying their own behaviour, to assess the effectiveness of these values and associated behaviour for their own and others' long term well-being and to reflect on and acquire other values and behaviour which they recognise as being more effective for long term well-being of self and others. This means that values education can take place at home, as well as in schools, colleges, universities, offenders institutions and voluntary youth organisations. There are two main approaches to values education. Some see it as inculcating or transmitting a set of values which often come from societal or religious rules or cultural ethics . Others see it as a type of Socratic dialogue[2] where people are gradually brought to their own realisation of what is good behaviour for themselves and their community. For further studyvisit these websites. http://www.stevepavlina.com/articles/list-of-values.htm http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/whcv.htm www.wikipedia.org http://ardictionary.com/Value/247 www.businessdictionary.com http://www.magazine.uc.edu/0805/whatarevalues.htm http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/values_types.htm

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