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SHAPING VALUES
Universal Human Values
An increasingly uncertain and complex world requires the agile embracing of opportunities and equally responsive solutions to the challenges provoked. Under such circumstances, it is time to think harder and ask ourselves about what it is to be a human and support students to develop the types of attitudes and values that are inherent to being human and find a sense of purpose with their own moral compass. In doing so, students will not need to rush to a single answer, to an either-or solution, but rather reconcile tensions, dilemmas and trade-offs – for instance, between equity and freedom; autonomy and solidarity; efficiency and democratic processes; ecology and economic logic; diversity and universality; and innovation and continuity – by integrating seemingly contradictory or incompatible goals as aspects of the same reality.
Learn more about these values here
Despite the range of values and attitudes that countries/jurisdictions would like to see embedded in student learning, there is a degree of commonality across the categories of personal, social, societal and human values and attitudes seen as desirable. These values and attitudes reflect, by and large, those prioritised by national curriculum frameworks and dominant social groups (e.g. respect, diversity, responsibility, human dignity, tolerance, democracy, equality, integrity, self-awareness, and justice).
As such, defining the shared values of ISB has been a focus and is a constant work in progress of refinement. These values pages are utilised to create a shared understanding of these identified school values and what they mean.
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