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Maroondah North Cluster

Promoting relational learning through values education

Maroondah North Cluster, Victoria

  • Croydon Hills Primary School
  • Kalinda Primary School
  • Mullum Primary School
  • Norwood Secondary College
  • Park Orchards Primary School
  • Parkwood Secondary College
  • Warranwood Primary School
  • Wonga Park Primary School
  • Yarra Road Primary School

Project proposal summary

As an existing Schools for Innovation and Excellence Cluster, we have a keen interest in promoting ‘Relational Learning’.

‘Relational Learning’ is a model which recognises that effective, healthy learning occurs in relationship to community rather than in isolation.

This model recognises five student learning relationships:

  • student to self;
  • student to the subject matter;
  • student to their peers;
  • student to teachers; and
  • student to the wider community.

These relationships have a huge bearing on the social, emotional and physical wellbeing of students as well as their academic performance. We believe that it is incumbent upon us as educators to recognise the significance of relationships in the learning process and strive to actively develop these relationships.

However, to address relationships, we first need to ‘lay the foundation stones’ of relationships – values. These will be the basis for all relationships throughout students’ lives enabling them to be effective community members.

We propose to facilitate a cultural change which encourages students to see values as ‘roadmaps for life’ and teach how values translate into behaviours.

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 Maroondah North Cluster can be downloaded as a PDF document.