Moving Values Beyond the Half Hour: Peer Leadership and School Vision—A Case Study of the Townsville Cluster, Queensland

This chapter provides an overview of a school cluster’s take up of the Peer Support Program, a program with the potential to support Values Education in primary and secondary schools. The Peer Support program is one of many pre-packaged programs available to schools and in this chapter we argue that such programs can be adopted in a range of ways as Values Education initiatives. As both a cautionary and a celebratory tale, we examine the implementation of the program across the cluster, drawing on seven case studies completed as part of work to benchmark schools against examples of good practice Values Education internationally. The chapter discusses the various levels at which the Peer Support program impacted on the life of the schools, transforming broad approaches to social relations within them, through teachers’ perceptions of changes in relations within the school and students’ accounts of their learning through the program.