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This chapter will summarize research findings from the late 1980s to today that identify the clear link between a ‘values’ approach to learning and good practice pedagogy in eliciting maximum student effects as measured across a range of developmental factors, including academic attainment. The Carnegie Corporation Taskforce Report on Student Achievement (1994) will be identified as a keystone moment in which both the values and pedagogy agendas of the 1990s into the 2000s were pre-figured. Carnegie provided a holistic definition of learning that stretched the traditional conceptions beyond the more predictable matters of cognition, to include matters of communication, empathy, self-reflection and integrity as being as central to effective learning. This chapter will briefly highlight ways in which the values and pedagogy agendas have interfaced in research and classroom innovations internationally. Special attention is given to the Australian programs with which the authors have been associated and the demonstrated effects of such an approach on student achievement across the range of developmental measures.
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Lovat, T., Dally, K., Clement, N., Toomey, R. (2011). Values and Good Practice Pedagogy. In: Values Pedagogy and Student Achievement. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1563-9_1
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