Value-Oriented Education: Aims and Approaches
Value Education -- The Need of the Hour
K. Premalakshmi, Ph.D.
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Abstract
Education is a powerful and pervasive agent for all round development, individual and social transformation. This alone can sustain culture and civilization. Education should lead to the development of integrated personality and inculcate values like patriotism. Spirit of national unity and a healthy appreciation of the rich variety of cultural expressions and promote a humanistic out look.
Value education is a many-sided endeavor as value itself. The theory and practice of value education speak to emotional, rational and active selves of individuals. It helps individuals to resolve or accept conflicts with others and to realize their beliefs in action. The school authorities can organize various activities and functions for the purpose of inculcation of values in the students. The Head of the
Institution and the Teaching Staff can play and organize a number of programmes for this purpose.
Introduction
The values are taught by the Family, Society, Religious organizations, formal and informal education system and NGOs, etc. However, more stress on value education may be laid at the school level as these are the formative years of children. Child is the future of the country. We must develop them thoughtfully. The fulfillment of the basic needs leads to a higher set of socio-political needs and ultimately to the goal of the full flowering of human personality or total development and the release of the creative energies of every individual. In all these, values play an important role.
Education is a systematic attempt towards human learning. All learning is subjective and selfrelated.
Educational activity starts with the individual. Knowledge should not be made remote from individual reality and irrelevant to the individual. Knowledge can never be ‘learned’. Knowledge is the
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K. Premalakshmi, Ph.D.
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Abstract
Education is a powerful and pervasive agent for all round development, individual and social transformation. This alone can sustain culture and civilization. Education should lead to the development of integrated personality and inculcate values like patriotism. Spirit of national unity and a healthy appreciation of the rich variety of cultural expressions and promote a humanistic out look.
Value education is a many-sided endeavor as value itself. The theory and practice of value education speak to emotional, rational and active selves of individuals. It helps individuals to resolve or accept conflicts with others and to realize their beliefs in action. The school authorities can organize various activities and functions for the purpose of inculcation of values in the students. The Head of the
Institution and the Teaching Staff can play and organize a number of programmes for this purpose.
Introduction
The values are taught by the Family, Society, Religious organizations, formal and informal education system and NGOs, etc. However, more stress on value education may be laid at the school level as these are the formative years of children. Child is the future of the country. We must develop them thoughtfully. The fulfillment of the basic needs leads to a higher set of socio-political needs and ultimately to the goal of the full flowering of human personality or total development and the release of the creative energies of every individual. In all these, values play an important role.
Education is a systematic attempt towards human learning. All learning is subjective and selfrelated.
Educational activity starts with the individual. Knowledge should not be made remote from individual reality and irrelevant to the individual. Knowledge can never be ‘learned’. Knowledge is the
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