Identification and Critique of the Values Education Notion Informing the "Itorero" Training Program for High School Leavers in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Autor/in	Nzahabwanayo, Sylvestre
Titel	Identification and Critique of the Values Education Notion Informing the "Itorero" Training Program for High School Leavers in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Quelle	In: Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 49 (2018) 1, S.111-132 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0826-4805
DOI	10.1007/s10780-017-9312-3
Schlagwörter	Values Education; High School Graduates; Foreign Countries; Informal Education; Citizenship Education; Questionnaires; Focus Groups; Interviews; Caring; Ethics; Moral Development; Cognitive Development; Values Clarification; Rwanda + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Werterziehung; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Ausland; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Ethik; Moralische Entwicklung; Kognitive Entwicklung; Wertbewusstsein; Ruanda
Abstract	While the academic literature is replete with affirming that 'values-explicit' citizenship education programs are biased and indoctrinatory, there is scant attention to substantiate this claim. The present paper fills this gap; it investigates the values education notion informing "Itorero," a non-formal citizenship education platform for high school leavers (HSLs) in post-genocide Rwanda. The research reported here used a survey questionnaire, focus groups and interviews. The article engages with character education, care ethics, cognitive moral development and values clarification approaches to highlight the values education notion deemed preferable to competing concepts. It is revealed that in educating HSLs for values, "Itorero" is vehemently committed to character education. I argue that the overreliance on this approach raises serious concerns particularly because values education as it is done in "Itorero" seems like the cultivation of supportive behavior towards the government in office. Its content focuses on understanding what the government wants and the crafting of dispositions required for the implementation of defined policies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01