This document discusses the values of geography education, including educational values, ecological values, social values, physical development values, recreational values, and cultural values. It provides examples of how co-curricular activities can impart practical knowledge and firsthand experience to students. Excursions and tours can reinforce classroom learning in history and geography. Participation in debates and recitations can improve language skills. Drama can help teach history. It also discusses how values play an important role in integrating impulses and desires, building societies, influencing behavior, and guiding social norms.

1. VALUES OF GEOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
AMOL UBALE

2. Types of values
• Educational Values,
• Ecological Value,
• Social Value,
• Physical development Value,
• Recreational Value,
• Cultural Value

3. Educational Values
• All classroom teaching is theoretical.
• Practical knowledge can be imparted through co-
curricular activities.
• Excursions and tours provide firsthand experience and
reinforce classroom knowledge in subjects like history,
geography, nature study etc.
• Language and expression improves through debates
and recitations. Teaching of History gets vitalized by
dramatization.

4. Ecological Value
पारिस्थितिक मूल्य
• Ecology is the science of relationships between living
organisms and their environment.
• The need to integrate physical and human geography
• 1907 - Goode first used human ecology in the context of
geography
• Defined geography as the study of mutual relations
between humans and the natural environment ;human
adjustment to physical environment

5. Physical development Value
भौतिक विकास मूल्य
• While games, sports and athletics directly
contribute to physical development of students,
other co-curricular activities also indirectly
contribute to it. These activities provide a useful
channel for the growth and development of the
body.

6. Recreational Value मनोिंजन मूल्य
• Lack of ability and training in proper utilization of
one's leisure time is one of the major defects in
our present system of education. By providing
and organizing various activities, we provide
wholesome opportunities to our students, rather
than to spend their spare time in undesirable
activities e.g. Movies, TV, idle talk etc. Hobbies
developed at the secondary school stage
become lifelong habits.

7. Cultural Value सांथकृ तिक मूल्य
• Some co*curricular activities are of tremendous
value, as they help in providing opportunities for
better understanding of our cultural heritage and
traditions, for example, activities like dramatics,
folk songs, dance, folk music, exhibitions and
celebration of various religious and social
festivals provide better knowledge and
understanding of our culture, foster cultural
tastes and awaken cultural interests among
students.

8. functions of values
The main functions of values are as follows:
1. Values play an important role in the integration and fulfillment of
man’s basic impulses and desires in a stable and consistent manner
appropriate for his living.
2. They are generic experiences in social action made up of both
individual and social responses and attitudes.
3. They build up societies, integrate social relations.
4. They mould the ideal dimensions of personality and range and depth
of culture.
5. They influence people’s behaviour and serve as criteria for
evaluating the actions of others.
6. They have a great role to play in the conduct of social life.
7. They help in creating norms to guide day-to-day behaviour.