This document discusses the values of teaching geography. It identifies several types of values, including educational values, recreational values, physical development values, social values, and ecological values. The educational values of geography include developing cultural understanding, observation and thinking skills, and the ability to draw conclusions. The recreational value is developing lifelong hobbies. Teaching geography also has social values like fostering sympathy for others and international cooperation. It concludes that teaching values helps develop students' all-round personality and provides benefits for their social, physical, and mental development.

1. Values of Teaching Geography
By
Amol B Ubale
PVDT College of Education For Women

2. Meaning of Values
the principles that help you to decide what is right and
wrong, and how to act in various situations

3. Basic Values

4. Values and Geography
 “The real value of geography lies in the fact it helps man to place
himself in the world to learn his true position & duties”.

5. Types of Values of Teaching Geography
Educational
Values
Recreational
Value
Physical
development
Value
Social Value
Ecological
Value

6. Educational Values
• Develops the cultural consciousness
• Develops the understanding of carring livelihood.
• Develops the understanding of use of leisure twicein proper manner.
• Develops the power of observation.
• Develops the power of thinking, resoning, memory & power of imagination.
• Develop their ability to draw conclusion and to generalise.
• Develops the creative talents of pupils and to develop an attitude of discovery in
• Them.
• Develops the skills of reading map & globes, to develop drawing & measuring skills
• And to develop the skills of using & manipulating geographical instrument.
• Develops scientific attitude and to develop the ability to draw valid conclusion &
• Interdependent thinking.

7. Ecological Value
Ecological value generally as the level of benefits that the space. Water,
minerals, biota, and all other factors that make up natural ecosystems
provide to support native life forms. Ecological values can accrue to both
humans and nonhumans alike.
• Wildlife maintains the balance of nature by transfer of energy in the food
chain.
• They maintain the oxygen cycle, water cycle and the nitrogen cycle in the
atmosphere.
• Trees prevent floods ,serve as habitat for animals and prevent soil erosion

8. Social Value
 Geography offer many possibilities for developing sympathy for the lives and
problems of others people. Really it develops in the pupils a social sympathy feeling
of relationship to others.
 To develop a constitive attitude towards all that corners his country.
 To create a requisite of creating love for once country is to make him know
it thoroughly. By laying honestly before the pupils interest ,aspirations and tradition
of this country.
 To develop and understanding of necessitates lining on a basis of international
cooperation and understanding.

9. Physical Development Value
 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

10. Recreational Value
 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.

11. Role of Values in a Student's Life
 develop the all-round personality of the students
 develop a sense of competitive spirit, co-operation, leadership, diligence,
punctuality, and team-spirit as well as to provide a backdrop for the
development of their creative talents.
 enhance social interaction, leadership, healthy recreation, self-discipline
and self-confidence.
 Physical activities like running, football etc. help not only in the physical
fitness they
 also refresh the burdened mind.