Author(s)

Maria Helena de Agrela Gonçalves Jardim^1,2, Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior³, Márcia Lúcia Sousa Dias Alves⁴

¹The School of Health, University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal.
²Psychology and Health Sciences, Public Health Graduate, Health Sciences Center, University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil.
³Faculty of Medicine, Public Health Graduate Program, Health Sciences Center, University of Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil.
⁴Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

The values of students occupy a central position in the cognitive system and on student’s personality, because it includes components of knowledge, affective and behavioural, determining their attitudes and motivations. In order to respond to the question “what are the values in students of higher education”, we have done a review of literature indexed in databases online, getting 23 articles published between 2008/2017. The reflection on the values of a student is of extreme importance to the educational system, due to the relationship between education and human values, resetting or recapturing the true role of the school in the formation of values. The results show that through the school it is possible to construct and develop human values in students, making it a place for this construction, without neglecting the importance of family. With the heterogeneity of methodologies of the studies, we suggest the development of more homogeneous research, materials and methods to evaluate the values of University students.

Values, Students, University

de Agrela Gonçalves Jardim, M. , da Silva Junior, G. and Alves, M. (2017) Values in Students of Higher Education. Creative Education, 8, 1682-1693. doi: 10.4236/ce.2017.810114.