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value orientation

value orientation

6.4
A person's or group's beliefs about right and wrong that guide their choices
  • noun
  • /ˈvæljuː ˌɔːrɪənˈteɪʃən/
translation icon : orientación de valores
  • The teacher discussed different value orientations to help students understand various perspectives on ethics.
  • value orientations for preservice
  • five value orientations
  • teachers' value orientations

Examples

  • Teachers who prioritize the learning process value orientation believe that how pupils learn is as important as what they learn.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Ennis and Chen (1995) studied physical educators' value orientations for curricular decision-making in urban and rural teaching settings.

    Academic text (2012)
  • In physical education, five major value orientations have been identified.

    Academic text (2004)
  • First of all, it is necessary to assess whether economic issues and value orientations are independent of each other.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Each item is a description of a goal of physical education within one of the five value orientations.

    Academic text (2004)
  • In addition, the influence of gender, experience, and activity background on teachers' value orientations was examined.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Control and influence brought to bear on value orientation and acquisition are integral parts of curriculum reform.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Relatively few studies of preservice physical education teachers' value orientations have been completed, and fewer have been published.

    Academic text (2004)
  • Findings indicated that the preservice teachers' value orientations were not stable and changed during the semester.

    Academic text (2004)
  • In contrast, this analysis suggests rather significant socialization effects on cadets' value orientations.

    Academic text (1997)

Synonyms

ethics
vsvalue orientation
584 4.2

Moral rules that tell people what is right and wrong and the study of those rules

is the personal or group moral set used to guide attitudes and behavior
orientation
vsvalue orientation
96 4.2

A person's set of beliefs or preferences that guide their actions

is specifically about moral principles rather than general attitudes or preferences
ethic
vsvalue orientation
79 4.4

A set of moral rules that guide how a person or group behaves

is the same meaning but often expressed as a named guiding label
value-system
vsvalue orientation
18 5.2

A set of ideas about what is right and wrong that guides a person or group

is focused on moral principles that guide attitudes and everyday behavior
values
vsvalue orientation
11 3.4

Ideas about what is important and how to behave

is the set of moral principles that guide attitudes and behavior
morals
vsvalue orientation
1 2.3

Ideas about what is right and wrong that guide how people behave

is an accepted set of moral principles that guide attitudes and behavior

How Strong

value orientation
6.4
amorality
2 8.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

value + orientation

The noun phrase combines 'value' (a guiding belief) and 'orientation' (a prevailing attitude) in a directly compositional way, so the overall meaning of a set or direction of values follows naturally from the parts. This construction and logic are cross‑linguistically common and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

Value orientation comes from the image of a compass: values are like points on a compass and orientation is the direction you face. So it means the set of beliefs about right and wrong that 'guide' a person's actions.