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Canterbury Cluster

A pedagogy of service learning

Canterbury Cluster, Queensland

  • Canterbury College
  • Loganlea State High School
  • Marsden State High School
  • St Hilda’s School

Project proposal summary

Middle Schooling is traditionally a time of disengagement; we aim to develop programs and resources which link values and values education. Vales are vital at this stage of learning, with the pedagogy of Service-Learning, which promotes all the basic tenets of Middle Schooling. Service-Learning utilises reflection as an integral part of any project. This is a methodology which will assist Middle Schoolers in developing their values systems: (eg students can reflect upon and talk about what it means to have individual and societal responsibility; how trust is generated and why it is so important and what justice really means). US research supports inextricable links between values education and service-learning and we are encouraged by counterparts in the US to continue to link them in partnership for our students.

Final Report 

Stage 1 Of the Values Education Good Practice Schools Project has now been completed. An extract from Implementing  the  National  Framework  for  Values  Education  in  Australian  Schools:  Report  of  the  Values  Education  Good  Practice  Schools  Project  –  Stage  1:  Final  Report  September  2006 for Canterbury Cluster can be downloaded as a PDF document.