Values Handout

Name: ____________________________ Grade 9 ____
Family and Resource Management 5th May, 2023
WEEK 3
TOPIC: Values
Activity
The answers you give to the following questions will help to indicate what your values are. Here
are the questions:
These questions are examples of choices that people make whether they are young or old, and
they help to show our values.
Definitions of the term ‘Values’

1. The term 'values' is used to denote those beliefs, attitudes and purposes that are chosen
freely, that are prized and acted upon. Values act as guides to our behaviour. They show
what we do with our time and energy.
2. Beliefs or principles that guide one’s action and inform decisions.
3. Qualities, characteristics, or ideas about which we feel strongly. Our values affect our
decisions, goals and behaviour.
4. A belief or feeling that someone or something is worthwhile.
5. Values define what is of worth, what is beneficial, and what is harmful. Values are
standards to guide your action, judgments, and attitudes.
The Value Processes/ Value Triangle
Values are based mainly on three processes. These are:

(i) Choosing
(ii) Prizing and
(iii) Acting
Choosing
A value can result only when there is something from which
to choose. These choices are known as alternatives.
There must be more than one alternative from which to
choose. If there is no choice in a certain matter, then there is
no place for decision making and so no value can come from
it. In choosing then we do so freely, from a number of
The values triangle
alternatives, after careful consideration of the other alternatives.
(Draw in Books)
Prizing
Although value is abstract in nature, it does have a positive tone. A
value is something we hold dear, something we cherish and prize and
hold in high esteem. It is the kind of choice that we would like to
speak about in public, such as honesty, ambition, comfort and desire
for knowledge.
Acting
Acting entails doing something with the choice we make. This we
repeat several times in our daily living and so form a pattern of life.
Sources of values
*our homes *school

*society* friends *TV
*Temple/church *music
*books *families *culture
*employers *time-period
The family
The family is perhaps the most important source of values for the child especially in the early
years. A person tends to have values like those of his family. However, because of changes in
society, young people and adults are being asked and are asking themselves questions that often
lead them to important decisions and actions which are not necessarily based on family values.
Many of the values in the family are passed on through home management via problem solving,
making choices, family plans, budgeting and other activities involving management.
The community and the society
The community is regarded as the near environment and the society as the far environment. Both
play an important part in the shaping of values. Advertising by radio, television and social media
helps to shape our values by the food we eat, the clothes we wear; in fact, by the goods and
services and ideas which are at our disposal for choosing, prizing and acting. When prices are
high and there is scarcity of goods, these forces in the environment do not cause our values to
change. Instead, we tend to adjust the goals which we had set ourselves.
Contact with different people
Values develop from our contact with other people. Values are constantly related to the
experiences that shape them and test them. They are not for any one person; they are the shaping
of certain patterns or lifestyles in certain surroundings.
Values develop from our contact with people who are not like us; people perhaps from other
places, countries or regions.
Students who grow up meeting the same people every day and having no outside contact are
deprived of a broadening of ideas. Moving with different people helps to broaden the range of
experiences which goes to develop values. As a person's contacts and experiences widen, some
of his values get stronger while others are changed or forgotten.
Reaction to authority
We develop values from our reaction to those in authority. This authority may be the home, the
church or the laws of the country which set standards that help develop values. We interpret the
standards which help us to develop certain values as individuals and as a family or a community.
Reaction to individual experiences
Values grow from a person's experiences so that different experiences give rise to different
values. These experiences could arise from the home, the school or the community. Different
people may react differently to certain experiences and so develop different values. Some authors
make the point that although values are learned beliefs thoroughly internalized, they are passed
on, transmitted, not given. In other words, values are caught not taught.
Value Indicators
Value indicators point out or indicate that expression (in statement or action) tells something
about values. They have a relationship to values but they cannot be regarded as such.
When I say 'Someday I shall have just two children, one boy and one girl,' I indicate my values
in terms of family size by aspiration.
'After saving $500 I shall buy the two books I need.' I indicate my values in terms of money use
by purpose.
If I say, 'I read everything I can get about management,' this indicates my values in terms of
reading by interest.
'My friends and I cleaned the house,' indicates my values in terms of cleanliness by action or
activities.
Values and Management
Family and Resource Management provides excellent examples for students to develop values
like thrift, orderliness, cleanliness and work ethic for self-respect. This is done unconsciously.
On the other hand, studying about values is part of Family and Resource Management.
Your present study of management takes into account things like resources (home and
community), use of time and money and how to develop your own abilities to achieve certain
goals. These factors can help you achieve what you want in life, but first you must understand
what are your own values. When you are able to predict what will be satisfying to you in the long
run and can give the reasons why, then you will be better able to get what you want by using the
available resources including your own will and determination.
Our goal in management is to get satisfaction from the use of resources. Management draws
attention to the wise use of resources to achieve what we want most in life. We all use time,
money, skills and abilities in our everyday life. We can use all of these resources much better if
we think about our own values and what is important to us. If cleanliness, for example, is
important to us then we will plan on clean surroundings, be proud to uphold cleanliness and take
steps to see that we have cleanliness around.
Relationship between Values and Goals

Values have been defined as what is prized in life, what is important, what is worthwhile, as
learned beliefs. They are beliefs about what we hold dear. Goals develop from your values.
Values may be considered as the source of goals. You direct your efforts towards the
achievement of things that you are interested in. when a person values something, he/she sets
certain goals. Our values determine the standards by which we judge our own success, how we
choose to work towards those goals we have set. The goals are concrete; they are the realization
of the value. Goals are more easily defined. When a goal is achieved, something of value has
been realized.

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Name: ________________________ Grade 9

Family and Resource Management 5th May, 2023

Definitions of the term ‘Values’

4. A belief or feeling that someone or something is worthwhile.

The Value Processes/ Value Triangle

Values are based mainly on three processes. These are:

our homes school

Relationship between Values and Goals

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