Values
Development
Module 3
Objectives
• Cite the different values and its
application;
• Discuss values in the light of one’s own
experience;
• Conceptualized values and its importance;
and,
• Discuss common values and its
importance to one’s life.
Concepts on Values and Its
Importance
• Values, is a personal perception of
one’s own future, relatively of the
family, works, friendship, group,
community and nation as a whole. It
converge to one’s culture and it forms
values observed among members.
Traditionally, it was practiced and
eventually it became a part of our
culture.
Concepts on Values and Its
Importance
• Values sprout anywhere as living
example of one’s culture and tradition.
• In Philippines, it was presumed as the
source of status symbols like wealth,
economy, authority, politics and even
personal ambition.
– Self enhancement should be lived and
observed with strong sense of honor and
pride.
Concepts on Values and Its
Importance
Our Values are behind all our human goals.
o They linked with the basic human needs.
o They emerge in the curse of time through our exposure
to people and different conditions.
o We may be conscious of our values, reflecting on them
regularly or we may be driven by unexpressed and
unconscious desires.
o We may be motivated by undertakings that offer short
term benefits or driven by momentary desires.
o Or, we may be choosing purposely the values that
propel our growth.
The choices we make determine
the quality of the life that we
shall go through.
Theoretical Framework for
Values Development
• Human values as ideals, which determine our
priorities and direct our behaviors.
• Human ideals as they reflect different levels of
needs. (The goals that we pursue relate to the
satisfaction of these needs.)
• Human pursuit for the ultimate and highest
values as they relate to the spiritual nature of
man.
• Human ideals as pursued individually and
collectively.
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Human Ideals Reflect Different
Levels of Needs
• What levels of needs
do your priorities The ideals that give
reveal? significance to our lives
reflect different levels of
needs. According to Maslow
(1993), there are at least five
• Do you pursue values sets of goals related to the
that satisfy both basic needs of a person:
foundation and ultimate physiologic, safety, love and
belongingness, esteem and
needs? self-actualization.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Physiologic needs – Primary needs for food,
water, rest, sleep and other biologic
requirements to keep the body healthy and fit.
• Safety needs – A broad concern for safety and
stability in the world security from environmental
hazards, assault, tyranny, etc.; being assured of
adequate provisions such as having a job with
tenure, retirement and other privileges, savings,
insurance of various kind, and so on; also being
in a predictable and familiar environment.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• Love and belongingness – Being in a mutual
relationship of affection, caring and nurture with one’s
significant others.
• Esteem needs – Self- respect that is firmly based on
capacity, achievement and respect from others.
Satisfaction of the self-esteem needs leads to feeling of
self-confidence, worth, strength, capability and
affirmation of being useful and necessary in the world.
• Self-actualization – Becoming more and more what one
is, and what one is potentially capable of becoming. The
person is basically satisfied in all his or her needs, and
functions to the fullest and healthiest creativeness. He or
she pursues ultimate values and timeless principles
based on a discerned, unique purpose in life.
