"Values"

This is from a document entitled:
National Framework
for Values Education
in Australian Schools 2004

In the Glossary it defines "values" by giving two quotations without any explanation:

• “… the principles and fundamental convictions which act
as general guides to behaviour, the standards by which
particular actions are judged as good or desirable.’”
(J Halstead, J and M Taylor, ‘Learning and teaching about
values: A review of recent research’, Cambridge Journal of
Education, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2000, pp 169-202);

• “the ideals that give significance to our lives, that are
reflected through the priorities that we choose, and that
we act on consistently and repeatedly” (Emeritus Professor
Brian Hill), keynote address, first National Forum on Values
Education, Melbourne, April 2004.

What is interesting here is relationship in both quotations between 'principle' and 'action', and the relationship between both of these and 'judgment' or 'significance'. What kind of moral universe does this reflect?

My gut reaction as a Christian is that 'following Jesus' doesn't really work with either of these, because it is not an 'ideal' or a 'principle' - though it is more like the former than the latter.

Of course, the question that is begged by all of this is: 'which 'values' '? Or better, 'whose'?