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PAGS 6110 VALUES EDUCATION CURRICULUM 3 CREDITS

Synopsis
This course enables students to examine and understand the aims, objectives and organisation of
curriculum pertaining to values education in the educational system for schools and higher institutions of
learning. Topics to be discussed include: aims of values education programme in schools and institutions of
higher learning, objectives of values education curriculum, organisation of the curriculum, curriculum content and
its implications to teaching and learning as well as on the aspects of curriculum change and innovations.
Emphasis will be given to research on the implementation of values education programme in the educational
system in the region of Asia and Western countries.

Assesment Method : Continuous assessment (Assignments; Presentations): 70%,
Examination: 30%

Medium of Instruction : Malay and English Language

Main References
Vishalache Balakrishnan (2009). Pendidikan Moral untuk universiti dan kolej. Subang Jaya: Arah Pendidikan
Power, C.F, Nuzzi, R.J., Narvaez, D., Lapsley, D.K. & Hunt, T.C. (eds) (2007). Moral education [Two
Volumes]: A handbook. Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated.
Chang Lee Hoon, Norani Mohd Salleh, Wan Hasmah Wan Mamat & Vishalache Balakrishnan (2008) (Eds.),
AsiaPacific Moral, Civic and Citizenship Education. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press.

PAGS 6111 RESEARCH IN VALUES EDUCATION 3 CREDITS

Synopsis

This course introduces students to challenges, issues and processes in research involving values
education. Among the topics discussed are (a) concepts and theories used as a basis for research in values
education (b) method and research design in the field of values education (c) data collection and data analysis in
the field of values education. This course requires students to critically analysis issue in research which have
been conducted in values education.

Assesment Method : Continuous assessment (Assignments; Presentations): 70%,
Examination: 30%

Medium of Instruction : Malay and English Language

Main References
Killen, M. & Smetana, J. (2006). Handbook of moral development. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bogdan, R.C. & Biklen, S.K. (2003). Qualitative research for education: an introduction to theory and
methods (4 ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
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Journal of Moral Education.

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