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The Role of Animals in the Values Development of Children

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In response to Government and community calls to maintain, emphasise, or reintroduce values in schooling, there is a growing literature concerning values education in Australian schools. Despite descriptions of clear aims and expectations within the documents that guide curriculum development, the existing literature exposes a gap, both in studies that identify effective pedagogies for the development of values, and in the availability of instruments to measure values development in children.

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Yorke, A., Moltow, D., Swabey, K. (2016). The Role of Animals in the Values Development of Children. In: Fan, S., Fielding-Wells, J. (eds) What is Next in Educational Research?. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-524-1_27

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