values clarification
Prioritizing personal principles
Values clarification is an approach to moral education that helps people identify and articulate their own values rather than adopting prescribed ones.
Popular in 1970s American schools, it emphasizes personal reflection over external moral instruction: The workshop used values clarification exercises to help students examine their beliefs about honesty.
Critics argue it promotes relativism by treating all values as equally valid.
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- prioritizationRanking by importance
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
- soul searchingHonest internal moral inventory
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- ethicsmorality, deontology, dignity, sanctity of life, utilitarianism
values clarificationindoctrination
Systematic uncritical belief instillation
character education · behavioral conditioning · moral instruction · religious instruction
values clarificationdogmatism
Unyielding adherence to doctrine
religious instruction · propaganda · political indoctrination · traditionalism · fundamentalism
values clarificationblind obedience
Compliance without critical thought