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In this paper we are interested in the educational task of mediating such values in societies imbued with individualist values and attitudes. As a background we use the results from the recurring \"World Values Survey\" (WVS) which maps the evaluative profile of citizens in about 80 different countries worldwide. The results from WVS reveal that Swedes in general stand out as remarkably individualist with respect to their reported value judgements. Hence, Sweden constitutes our example of an individualist society, i.e., a society whose members to a large extent share an individualist evaluative profile. One important feature of such an individualist evaluative profile is a tendency to regard questions of value as largely a private matter and to downplay the importance of ethics in general. Against this background we investigated the evaluative outlook of 134 Swedish teacher students, using questions from WVS as a point of departure. The results indicate that these students do not differ to any significant degree from the Swedish population in general as regards their evaluative outlook, and yet they are supposed to mediate both individualist and social basic values in their coming profession. The purpose of this paper is to make visible and problematize the tension between an individualist evaluative profile and the educational task of mediating a set of basic values. This tension, it is argued, poses special challenges for teachers and the teacher education in societies on the individualist side of the scale.  \nKeywords: basic values, evaluative profiles, mediating values, teacher education, value reproduction, individualism  \nIntroduction  \nJust as teachers are supposed to convey information, methods and skills to their pupils, they are also expected to mediate certain basic values, although the precise content of these values varies between different societies. Depending on which country we look at, the task of mediating such values is either implicitly taken for granted within the country’s educational system, or explicitly established in its regulatory documents. In Sweden, for instance, the curriculum for the upper secondary school states that \"[e]ach and everyone working in the school should… encourage respect for the intrinsic value of each person and the environment we all share. […] In accordance with the ethics borne by Christian tradition and Western humanism, this is to be  \n􀀍 Associate Professor, Umeå University, Sweden.  \n† Associate Professor, Umeå University, Sweden.  \n[https://doi.org/10.30958/aje.4-2-3](https://doi.org/10.30958/aje.4-2-3) doi=10.30958/aje.4-2-3  \nachieved by nurturing in the individual a sense of justice, generosity, tolerance and responsibility\" (SNAE, 2013) .  \nIn this paper we are interested in the educational task of mediating such basic values in societies imbued with individualist values and attitudes. As a background, and for illustrative purposes, we use the results from the recurring\"World Values Survey\" (WVS), which maps the evaluative profile of citizens in about 80 different countries worldwide (WVS, 2016) . It has become a common practice to present the results from WVS along two value dimensions: traditional versus secular-rational values, and survival versus self-expression values (e.g. Inglehart, 2006) . In general, secular-rational and self-expression values are representative of an individualist evaluative profile, whereas traditional and survival values are representative of a more collectivist, or social, evaluative profile (these value dimensions and the connections between them are elaborated below) . Hence, it is possible to use the results from WVSto roughly categorize countries as more or less individualist.  \nT","cbCaik4FvSXMbrbY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik4FvSXMbrbY","pdf",562465,11,"English","# Introduction\n## Educational task and curriculum expectations\n## Using the World Values Survey background\n## Sweden as an individualist society example\n# Theoretical Background\n## Evaluative dimensions","[{\"question\":\"What educational task do teachers have beyond teaching skills and information?\",\"answer\":\"Teachers are expected to mediate basic values, even though the exact values vary across societies.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the World Values Survey (WVS) support the study’s background?\",\"answer\":\"WVS maps evaluative profiles across about 80 countries and helps categorize countries along individualist versus collectivist value profiles.\"},{\"question\":\"What main challenge does the paper identify for teachers in individualist societies?\",\"answer\":\"The paper argues that a tension exists between an individualist evaluative profile (values as private and ethics downplayed) and the educational task of mediating basic values.\"}]","On the Educational Task of Mediating Basic Values in an Individualist Society | PDF",1792075164,28]