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Original language: English

Brian V. Hill (Australia) Professor of Education, Murdoch University, Western Australia, since its creation in 1974. Initially a high school-teacher, he has obtained degrees from the Universities of Western Australia, Sydney and Illinois, and has lectured in many countries. He was Fulbright Senior Scholar at Stanford University in 1980. His interests concern ethics and values education, youth policy and religious education, about which he has published over 200 academic articles and chapters. The most recent of his ten books are:Values education in Australian schools (1991); andTeaching secondary social studies in a multicultural society (1994).

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Hill, B.V. Values education: the Australian experience. Prospects 28, 172–191 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736941

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