Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC STUDIES CONGRESS, Antalya, Türkiye, 3 - 05 Ağustos 2022, ss.10-11
Values Educatıon Through Multıcultural Texts
Abstract
Values education started to gain importance for many decades since teaching values
was associated with educational concerns and principles. For example, the
socialization approach shows the theories of moral development and character
education by Dewey, Piaget, and Kohlberg. Additionally, academics like Heider,
Lovinger, Marx, Hoffman, Anderson, and Schwartz highlight their ideas by
emphasizing the integration and individuality of moral development and personal
evolution. According to this view, global and universal values exist everywhere.
Schwartz (1992) lists the following characteristics as examples of these values: 1.
Values are beliefs, 2. Values refer to desirable goals, 3. Values transcend specific
actions and situations, 4. Values serve as standards or criteria, 5. Values are ordered
by importance, 6. The relative importance of multiple values guides to action. The
current study aims to assess whether multicultural literary texts can improve values
or not. The current study uses six diverse short stories to teach English teachers-intraining two basic values, benevolence and universalism, based on multiculturalism.
In this study, two groups willingly participated in the research, and the Portrait
Values Questionnaire (PVQ) was used as a pre-and post-test design to gauge the
participants' perception of values and attitudes. The result indicated that the
intervention through literary texts based on the multiculturalism criterion improved
the treatment group's understanding of benevolence and universalism.
Keywords: Values, Character Education, Multicultural Literary Texts,
Universality, Moral Development