Values Formation is a training of the intellect and will PDF

Title Values Formation is a training of the intellect and will
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VALUES FORMATION There are two varied answers to the questions, depending on the camp where you belong. If you belong to the idealist group, there are unchanging and universal values. The values of the love, care and concern for the fellowmen are values for all people regardless of time and space. They remain unchanged amidst changing times. These are called transcendent values, transcendent because they are beyond changing times, beyond space and people.

In this Lesson, our discussion on values formation is based on the premise that there are transcendent values. Most Filipinos, if the not all, believe in a transcendental being whom we call different names Bathala , Apo Dios, Kabunian, Allah, and whom the like. 

Values are taught and caught

Another essential question we have to tackle is; “are values caught or taught? Our position is that values are both taught and caught. If they are not taught because they are merely caught, then there is even no point in proceeding to write and discuss your values formation as a teacher here! 

Values have cognitive, affective and behavioral dimension

We must understand the value that we want to acquire. We need to know why we have to value such. This is the heart of conversion and values formation. We need to know to live by threat value. These are the concept that ought to be taught. Values are in the affective domain of objectives. For instance, “it is not enough to know what honesty is or why one should be honest. One has to feel something towards honesty, be moved towards honesty as preferable to dishonesty” {Aquino, 1990}. Value formation includes in the cognitive, affective and behavioral aspects Your values formation as teacher will necessarily includes the three dimensions. According to {Aquino, 1990].   

Knowledge Wisdom Sensitivity These are the three value formation that a teacher needs to grow.

Values Formation is a training of the intellect and will

Your value formation in the essence is the training of the intellect and will, your cognitive and rational appetitive powers, respectively. Your intellect discerns a value and presents it to the will as a right or wrong value. Your will wills to act on the right value and wills to avoid the wrong value presented by your intellect. As described by St. Thomas Aquinas. “The intellect proposes and the will disposes”. It is, therefore, necessary that develop your intellect in its three functions, namely: “formation of the ideas, judgment and reasoning’’ (William Kelly, 1965). How can your will be trained to desire strongly the desirable and act on it? William Kelly explains it very simply: Training of the will must be essentially self-training. The training of yielding to impulse results in the enfeeblement of self-control. The power of inhibiting urgent desires, of concentrating attention on the more remote good, of reinforcing the higher but less urgent motives undergoes a kind of atrophy  Health  Vitality - Values of vital feeling  Capability  Excellence Virtuous versus vicious life and their effect on the will In short, a virtuous life strengthens you to live by the right values and live a life of abundance and joy while a vicious life leads you to perdition and misery. 

Max Scheler’s hierarchy of values

Max Scheler outlined a hierarchy of values. Our hierarchy of values is shown in our preferences and decisions. Aquino (Aquino, 1990) presents Scheler’s hierarchy of values arranged from the lowest to the highest as shown below:  Pleasure values- the pleasant against the unpleasant - The agreeable against the disagreeable  Vital Values- values pertaining to the well being either of the individual or of the Community Values clarification

After introducing transcendent values, let me introduce you to the process of value clarification. In a plurastic society, we can’t help but face the value confusion and value contradictions of our times. The term value is reserved for those “individual beliefs, attitudes and activities… that satisfy the following criteria: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7)

Freely chosen Chosen from among alternatives Chosen after due reflection Prized and cherished Publicly affirmed Incorporated into actual behavior, and Acted upon repeatedly in one’s life.

This means that if you value honesty you have chosen it freely from among alternatives and after considering its consequences

Spiritual Values environment;

- values independent of the whole sphere of the body and of the

-grasped in the spiritual acts of preferring, loving and hating  Aesthetic values: beauty against ugliness  Values of the right and wrong  Values of pure knowledge Values of the Holy objects’

- appear only in regard to objects intentionally given as ‘absolute

 Belief  Adoration  Bliss

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