Impact Of The "Orientation Based On Formal Axiology"

Abstract

This paper is a summary of my PhD Thesis in Human Development entitled “Axio-orientation, A Proposal to Facilitate the Harmonious Development of a Personality Value System”. Following the structure of scientific research, in this work I have measured the effectiveness of the implementation of Axio-orientation through mixed research to evaluate the impact of a 14-hour training course on Formal Axiology applied to Human Development aimed at a group of adolescents and another group of adults. There was a control group of adolescent middle school students who did not receive the course. I found that the implementation of Axio-orientation has a statistically significant impact on people who receive it, especially adolescents, where positive changes in 12 of 16 Hartman Values Profile (HVP) scores selected for research were found. Regarding the adult group, there were statistically significant positive changes in 6 of the 16 scores of the HVP selected. I corroborated these changes with the qualitative part of the research and found a positive usefulness of the knowledge acquired in an experiential way in both young people and adults. The adolescents of the control group that did not receive a course in Formal Axiology showed significant negative changes, a degradation of their value system, in 10 of the 16 scores of the HVP. Given the evidence of the effectiveness of Axio-orientation, I make an ambitious proposal to prevent social violence and the wars that shake us, consisting of including the teaching of Formal Axiology in the official programs of the Ministries of Public Education of Mexico and the whole world, from pre-kindergarten to bachelor’s degrees.