Values Education for Children and Young Adults

Educators involved in Living Values Education in more than 80 countries, welcome you to the website of the Association for Living Values Education International (ALIVE). We invite you to join us in this global endeavor to help students explore and develop positive values and move toward their potential. We hope you will join us in creating caring, respectful environments where students feel safe, want to learn, and live their values.

Young people around the world are increasingly affected by violence, social problems, and a lack of respect for each other and the world around them. Educators in many countries are impacted by greater challenges and pressures. The Living Values Education Program is effective in decreasing violence and bullying, and creating safe, caring school climates which are conducive to quality learning. Living Values Education (LVE) is a way of conceptualizing education that promotes the development of values-based learning communities and places the search for meaning and purpose at the heart of education. LVE emphasizes the worth and integrity of each person involved in the provision of education, in the home, school and community. In fostering quality education, LVE supports the overall development of the individual and a culture of positive values in each society and throughout the world, believing that education is a purposeful activity designed to help humanity flourish.

ALIVE, ALIVE Associates and LVE Focal Points around the world provide:

Professional development courses, seminars and workshops for teachers and others involved in the provision of education.

Classroom teaching material and other educational resources , in particular an award-winning series of five resource books containing practical values activities and a range of methods for use by educators, facilitators, parents and caregivers to help children and young adults to explore and develop twelve widely-shared human values ( Living Values Activities for Children Ages 3-7, Living Values Activities for Children Ages 8-14, Living Values Activities for Young Adults, Living Values Parent Groups: A Facilitator Guide, and LVEP Educator Training Guide). There are also resource books for children in difficult circumstances (street children), youth in need of drug rehabilitation, and children affected by war. The approach and lesson content are experiential, participatory and flexible, allowing – and encouraging – the materials to be adapted and supplemented according to varying cultural, social and other circumstances. The approach and materials may also be used systematically, and in alignment with the ten principles of The Living Values Education Approach*, as the Living Values Education Program.

Consultation to government bodies, organizations, schools, teachers and parents on the creation of values-based learning environments and the teaching of values.

This extensive, multi-lingual website with materials available for downloading free of charge