Table 1 Effective ‘values education’

• helps students to understand and to be able to apply values

such as care and compassion;

• pursues excellence by requiring the students to do their best;

• purses and protects the common good where all people are treated fairly for a just society;

• pursues freedom in order to protect the rights of self and others;

• pursues honesty and truth;

• helps the students achieve consistency between their words and deeds in accordance with moral and ethical conduct;

• promotes the respectful treatment of others;

• promotes personal responsibility and accountability of one’s own actions and the resolve of differences in a non-violent and peaceful ways;

• promotes the understanding and tolerance of others and their cultures, the acceptance of diversity and the inclusion of others.