- 10 universally accepted values and their meanings
- 1- Health
- 2- Harmony with nature
- 3- Truth
- 4- Wisdom
- 5- Love
- 6- Compassion
- 7- Creativity
- 8- Appreciation of beauty
- 9- Peace
- 10- Justice
- Others
- 11- Respect for Human Rights
- 12- Sustainable Human Development
- 13- National unity
- 14- Global solidarity
- 15- Global spirituality
- 16- Honesty
- 17- human dignity
- 18- Human equality
- References
The values are universal principles by which humans refuse to live regardless of geographical and cultural differences. They allow human beings to reflect on their development within their social environment, taking into account that they are subject to rights and duties.
Education in values allows to transmit knowledge in the initial stages to form citizens with criteria to live their culture in their place of residence, respecting the cultural differences of their peers.
Values are practices that are maintained over time. Education programs in some countries, such as the Asia-Pacific region, seek to formulate appropriate values and promote the use of effective pedagogical strategies in the curriculum.
Faced with the risks that violence and terrorism have brought, teachers cannot allow education to be devoid of good behavior and they have the moral responsibility to teach universal human values that allow healthy coexistence.
The challenge is to design diversified educational materials with the appropriate approaches for the varied needs of children and adolescents with respect to their physical and psychological development characteristics.
10 universally accepted values and their meanings
1- Health
Health is understood as the absence of disease, but its meaning today indicates interrelationships between physical health and other aspects of the human being. The holistic approach to health addresses the physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being.
2- Harmony with nature
It is a sense of care, respect and responsibility with natural resources.
3- Truth
The love of truth implies a tireless and enthusiastic search process for knowledge in all its forms. His search is based on the full development of the human being.
4- Wisdom
It is the personal quality required to understand what is true, correct and lasting, it involves judgment on the good and the bad with balance, sobriety and moderation.
5- Love
They are the basic conditions of ethics and morality. Love is the energy that emanates by itself, nurtures its own human dignity and that of others. It is committing yourself for the good of the human being, helping others without obtaining anything in return.
6- Compassion
It is the quality of being actively aware and sensitive to adverse conditions that affect others, their sufferings and hardships.
7- Creativity
Creativity means seeing things from an unusual point of view. It helps people generate more knowledge and innovations, which can mean discoveries, new initiatives and products.
8- Appreciation of beauty
It is the appreciation of the beauty and harmony of all creation and being grateful to the creator. It involves the human sensitivity inherent to the beauty and meaning of the various forms of artistic expressions from different eras and cultural groups.
9- Peace
It is the absence of war and also the presence of affirmation structures and values for life. It implies more the absence of direct and physical violence. It includes values such as Human Rights, tolerance, non-violent activities, others.
10- Justice
It is the complement to peace. Without the presence of just social structures and relationships, oppression and discrimination will flourish and turn these conditions into anger and hostility.
Others
11- Respect for Human Rights
It recognizes not only the fundamental rights and equality of all regardless of race, creed, gender or social condition, it includes access to food, clothing, shelter, public health and education.
12- Sustainable Human Development
It is the basis of economic development. Well-being cannot be measured by such development, since economic justice or equity is required to be ensured.
This allows to empower citizens to access education, health services and other basic human needs. The satisfaction of these is the basic indicator of sustainable human development.
13- National unity
It is based on unity in diversity within a nation, regardless of cultural differences, language, creed or political beliefs, as there are common needs that unite citizens.
14- Global solidarity
They are the common aspects that unite people of diverse nationalities and creeds who share values and interrelations within the planet, which is the common home for all human beings.
15- Global spirituality
It refers to a spiritual journey that has aspects inward, outward, and forward. They are not opposing parts and they form a flow, like a spiral. The inner journey allows us to develop a closer relationship with our sacred source of life.
The external journey allows to grow in relationships with other communities of people and the entire global community, making the deep unity between all human beings and nature more conscious.
16- Honesty
It is one of the main elements that enrich the relationships of human beings. Dishonesty towards others causes problems that can turn into conflicts. That is why it is important to be sincere when establishing socializing relationships with our peers.
Honesty is the courage to express the truth with the necessary trust and respect to maintain a relationship over time.
17- human dignity
It is the anchor norm of Human Rights. It became the norm or standard by which political, social and economic structures would be judged. People should never be seen or used as a means to an end.
18- Human equality
It is essential in the system of basic freedoms postulated by Human Rights laws.
These values can be defended through human security, which consists of protecting human lives, encompassing their freedoms and their fulfillment.
References
- Definition of Human Values. Recovered from: conceptdefinition.de.
- Human Security in Theory and Practice, an overview of the Human Security Concept and the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security. Recovered from: un.org.
- Keely, F. The Principle of Human Dignity. Recovered from: caritas.org.au.
- Quinn, G. and Degener T. (2002). The current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments in the context of disability. New York, United Nations.
- Suárez, R. Ethics and Human Values. Bogotá, Ministry of National Education.
- UNESCO (2002). Learning to be. Bangkok, Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education.