Teaching Values - Without Values!? A contribution to the discussion of the premises of value education

The author focuses on the question of whether values exist outside of the concrete evaluation process of evaluative subjects. With reference to selected value concepts such as diligence, justice, freedom, or truth, possibilities of identifying these "values" are discussed, in order to then reflect on them and to examine which function they fulfill in the educational practice. It becomes apparent that people do not orient their actions by (non-"existent" and thus not "communicable") values, but rather that references to values are suitable for justifying or veiling the interests that come into play in those debates which first and foremost give rise to the need for e-valuation.