Thursday, December 18, 2008

METHODS OF IMPARTING VALUE EDUCATION

The development of morality is an important aspect for the formation of good character. Today there is deterioration of values in the society. The values have been not only at the social level but at the national level also. In the educational programme only mental development has been stressed. In the modern age, the aim of education is all-round development of personality. In the present educational system, provision has been made for intellectual education. By giving importance to intellectual development. Thus to successful life, important human qualities such as sympathy, love, cooperation, mercy, compassion, truth, sincerity etc.have been ignored. The development of such human qualities along with intellectual development should be the aim of value education.

Values like love, joy, trust, dignity, respect, understanding and reverence are the keys to the survival of human beings. Teaching of values is teaching of better survival skills. Human life is more complex at present than in the past. Our educational system gives us an idea about how far we are successful in making value education successful. Value education is a positive effort towards bringing about a synthesis of different values in a human being. It spans the entire learning structure and is related to the general education system. A teacher faces a challenge on how to make value education effective to the youth. The human Race has to last for centuries. In a society, based on human values, man’s precious resource is his fellow men. It is teachers’ role to foster Human

Values through his teaching in the classroom and follow those values. To the youth the classroom messages are love, safety, security, belonging and warmth. The difficulty arises in deciding the way and content of morality to be taught to the student community. The teachers in schools, colleges and universities should be oriented and motivated by the orientation Courses, workshops, fieldworks, seminars and extension activities for imparting

value education to students.