meaning, definitions concept, nature significance, need, and importance of value education in our daily life

1. Values
Education
By: Aastha Bhatia

2. “We live in difficult times when peace and
human security are facing new challenges
at the individual and global level.
Education is a key dimension of the long
term process of building peace, tolerance,
justice and intercultural understanding- the
reorientation of education to create a
better world is truly urgent.”

3. Values education is not new or something
extra, it is building upon what already exists.
 Values education is on both national and
state agendas.
Values can be personalised, politicised and
contested.
 Values education can strengthen students
self esteem, optimism and help students to
exercise ethical judgement and social
responsibility.

4. Active learning
Action research
Inquiry
 Problem Solving
Community based
Service learning
Critical literacy
Student Action Teams
 Student Mentoring

5. SIGNIFICANT NATURE
 civics and citizenship education
 environmental education, sustainable futures
 international and global education
 indigenous studies, languages and multicultural
education
 history, philosophy, social sciences
 health and human development
 sciences – ethical dilemmas, problem solving
 math, economics (equity issues –gap between
haves/have-nots)
 media & ICTs – critical thinking, discernment, choosing
screen-based information

6. Establishes a shared values language across the school.
Explicitly teaches and models values.
Uses a range of learning strategies.
Enhances student agency.
Develops approaches relevant to the local context.
Gathers data for continuous improvement.

7. We need to understand why people hold different values
and why they behave differently.
We need to understand why people hold different values
and why they behave differently.
Providing a place in the curriculum for specifically studying
values– their nature and significance in our life-choices,
and how one goes about justifying them and negotiating
value agreements in the group: in short, studying the
“discipline” of values discourse.
Values Education Programs:
Drug Education, Religious Education, Program Achieve,
Social Skills Programs

8. NEEDS OF VALUE EDUCATION
 Moral Development
 Culture Development
 Social Development
 All-Round development
 Solving Conflict
 Development of Democratic qualities
 Cooperative living

9. Instrumental values.
Intrinsic values.
Immediate values.
Remote values.
Aesthetic values.
Absolute and Related values.

10. Healthy and Balanced Personality.
Vocationally Efficiency.
Ideal Citizens.
Reconstruction of experiences.
Adjustable Environment.
Promotes social Efficiency.
Develops Cultural values.

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