2. VALUE EDUCATION
• Purpose of education is to facilitate the development of clarity on the aspiration and
adequate competence to actualize it.
• Value education is the education which enables to understand ‘what is valuable’ for
human happiness.
• All human beings aspire for a happy, fulfilling life. For a human being, there are two
important questions pertaining to this:
What to do? - Understanding
How to do? - Developing the skills
3. OBJECTIVES OF VALUE EDUCATION
1. To improve the integral growth of human being.
2. To create attitudes and improvement towards sustainable lifestyle.
3. To increase awareness about our national history, our cultural heritage, constitutional
rights, national integration, community development and environment.
4. To create develop awareness about the values and their significance and role.
5. To know about various living and non-living organisms and their interaction with
environment.
4. NEED OF VALUE EDUCATION
• Correct identification of our aspiration.
• Understanding universal human values to fulfill our aspirations in continuity.
• Complementarity of values and skills.
• Evaluation of our beliefs.
• Technology and human values.
5. BASIC GUIDELINES FOR VALUE EDUCATION
• Universal
• Rational
• Natural and verifiable
• All encompassing
• Leading in harmony
6. SCOPE OF VALUE EDUCATION
• Includes all 4 dimensions of a human being :- Thoughts, Behavior, Work and Realization.
• Includes all 4 levels:-
1. Individual – Role within myself (ensuring happiness in self and health of the body)
2. Family – Role in my family (ensuring feeling of relationship and prosperity)
3. Society – Role with the society (to participate in social systems for ensuring justice,
peace and harmony
4. Nature – Role in nature (mutual fulfilment with rest of nature)
7. CONTENT OF VALUE EDUCATION
• To understand myself, my aspirations, my happiness.
• To understand the goal of human life.
• To understand the other entities in nature, their inter-connectedness and co-
• existence and role of human being in nature.
• To understand harmony at the four levels of human living.
8. PROCESS OF VALUE EDUCATION- SELF
EXPLORATION
• Value education begins with self-exploration i.e., looking inside yourself.
• Self-exploration
What Am I What is naturally acceptable
to me
