The Value of Values Education in the Virtual Classroom

Abstract

This research endeavored to follow in a way the ideals of Herbert Spencer regarding value- based education. It inquired on the value or importance of values education in online instruction during this time of the pandemic. The researchers had used narrative descriptive method and strategy in analyzing the data that were collected through the digital data approach from several educators of higher and other educational institutions. Primarily, this research presented the various practices observed before, during, and after online learning, to ensure value-laden education aside from identifying the specific values needed to be promoted and intensified during this pandemic by reason of necessity and urgency like sensitivity, self-care, courage, perseverance, discipline, respect, accountability, faith, justice, peace, honesty, humility, and love. This research yielded to the importance and impact of values education to educational excellence while still in pandemic which are classified as personal character development, social and world development, and spiritual development on the account of the good nature of the value-based education, availability of much needed structures, quality of delivery, and dynamic support system.