Aspects of effective issues analysis and values development

1. Students need opportunities to:
   • develop
   • justify
   • critically evaluate
   • reflect on and modify their values.
     
2. Students need to become aware of the diversity of views in a multicultural society.
   
3. Students need to be aware that views do and should change over time.
   
4. Students need to be provided with an effective and explicit decision-making model. This may be to:
   • understand the science behind the problem
   • identify possible solutions/options/choices
   • weigh up the short and long term consequences of the possible solutions by, for example, a risk benefit analysis or by using principles like justice and autonomy
   • make and reflect on the decision.

   Other decision making strategies can be used.

5. Adolescents, who are the audience for these materials, tend to focus on short-term consequences and give the rights of individuals excess emphasis in decision making. They should be encouraged to consider the long-term consequences of decisions.