Historically, not much of values education theory has been rooted in the neuro- and psychological sciences. Kohlberg’s enterprise was rooted in philosophy (Kohlberg 1981), Piaget’s in non-human biology (1932), Gilligan’s in psychoanalytic theory (Gilligan 1982), Shweder’s in cultural anthropology (Shweder 1993). Yet a prescription for moral or values education requires an up-to-date and frank assessment of human nature, needs, and possibilities (Flanagan 1991; McKinnon 1999). Like a chef, educators need to think about the nature of the ingredients with which they work and the potentials that lie within. In education, this requires having an empirically derived human psychology and an empirically grounded pedagogy. A smattering of each is provided here. After reviewing two main approaches to values education, I suggest new directions for values education more strongly rooted in recent findings of social sciences and in a Triune Ethics theory.
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Narvaez, D. (2007). How Cognitive and Neurobiological Sciences Inform Values Education for Creatures Like us. In: Aspin, D.N., Chapman, J.D. (eds) Values Education and Lifelong Learning. Lifelong Learning Book Series, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6184-4_7
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