Clarification details
Updated May 2015. This document has been updated to address the MOE review of all Education for Sustainability Achievement Standards.
Personal values
The aligned version 2 of this standard requires students to demonstrate understanding of how different people's values, and the behaviours associated with them, have implications for a sustainable future. Students generally need to be prompted to discuss these links.
Learners need to examine their own and others’ characteristics of different personal values in response to information on sustainability during the assessment process.
They need to consider their own values in terms of the particular context at the beginning of the assessment, as these may change, and this change may directly inform the analysis. It would therefore be advisable to record the original value position.
Values versus behaviours and linking to the sustainable future concept
Learners need guidance to differentiate between values and behaviours. They have to firstly examine the values and then consider how the associated behaviours/actions have implications for the sustainable future concept.
They may state what they currently do and what behaviours they would now modify, giving reasons for the change. The implications for a sustainable future need to be more specific than: “If I did this…then it would meet the needs of the future generations”. They need to clearly say how their behaviours would or would not support a sustainable future.