Value-related educational goals of primary school teachers: a comparative study in two European countries.

ABSTRACT: Schools serve as social institutions that convey values in the context of socialization and enculturation. Teachers are pivotal in this transmission process via their value-related educational goals (VrEGs), which outline how they would like to see their pupils in terms of values. What factors influence these VrEGs? We suggest that those vary on an individual level, but also correspond to the prevailing value orientations of the society. In our study we followed two main goals to test this thesis. Firstly, we examine the differences in VrEGs between teachers of two European countries: Switzerland (CH) and United Kingdom (UK). Secondly, we investigated the similarity of the teachers' VrEGs with prevailing national value orientations from the specific countries. One hundred and

SUBMITTER: Oeschger TP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11619050 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature