Value/Moral Education in Canada: The Work of AVER

Abstract

The Association for Values Education and Research (AVER) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers located at the University of British Columbia. Focusing upon the competencies deemed necessary for a morally educated person, research, both conceptual and empirical, has been carried out. Teaching/learning units have been developed in order to expose students to value issues and to teach some of the processes of normative reasoning. Teachers have been trained to use some of the processes of values education and courses have been established to expose students to a variety of philosophies, psychologies and curricular approaches to values education.