The taxonomy of the affective domain (Krathwohl, Bloom &Masia 1964) deals with the thoughts, feelings and
actions that students are expected to develop as a consequence of the instructional process. The five levels of
the taxonomy describe a continuum of affective values where the learner learns to attend to phenomena, to
respond to them, to value them and finally to conceptualise them as a way of life. The internalisation of values
shows the student’s achievement at the level of characterisation, which is marked by the development of a
philosophy of life.