The aim of this course is to enable the pre-service teachers to understand the importance of value and character education.

Conceptual framework: character, personality / personality, value, virtue, morality, temper, temperament, etc. character development and education; family, environment and school in character development and education; definition and classification of values; sources of values and individual, social, cultural, religious, moral foundations; approach to character and value education; a culture of intercultural differentiation and coexistence in character and value education; character and value education in terms of educational philosophy and objectives; teaching methods and techniques in character / value education; values crisis and education in modern and multicultural societies; value education in the process of human-cultural development; Turkey examples about the value of education and cultural history education, practice and research values education in Turkey; teacher as role model in character and value education.