Education and Diversity: Values Education and Cross-cultural Learning Through Socratic Dialogue and the Visual Arts

Abstract

This chapter is concerned to investigate educational issues associated with cross-cultural understanding, values education and student wellbeing, and to identify the ways in which innovative approaches to curriculum and teaching can provide opportunities for enhancing learning for all students in a time of personal, societal and global transition and change. The chapter draws from the experience of students associated with the schools involved in the Melbourne Interfaith and Intercultural Cluster of the Australian Commonwealth Government's Values Education Good Schools Practice Project and investigates the ways in which Socratic dialogue and learning through the visual arts can be used to enhance values education and student wellbeing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)