Contribution of Value Education towards Human Development in India: Theoretical Concepts

Value education is not simply the heart of education, but also the education of the heart. It is a necessary component of holistic citizenship education. Value education has been globally perceived as an answer to the challenge of strengthening moral and social fabric of societies. Fostering of fundamental and human values and generating a caring and compassionate consciousness has tremendous potential to salvage the human goodness. The central idea behind value education is to develop essential values among the students and it teaches to manage complexities that can be continued and further developed. Value education is a vital ingredient required to develop a strong moral basis to a student’s life and to give them opportunity of doing well on the world. Due to modern developments and fast changing role of parents, it has been very difficult for parents to inculcate significant values in their child. The school which gives education should also give equal importance to values, ethics and personality development as a means of preserving the standards of education. Values help us not only in self-evaluation, but also in self-drive too. Education in values is essential in helping each one of us directly encounter the values that we hold, understand them completely, so that we may order our relationship to the environment that lies outside us. This paper emphasizes that value education in modern context is considered much wider, transcending the boundaries of religions and encompassing ethical, social, aesthetic, cultural and spiritual values. Value oriented education needs to be realistically achievable in consonance with the academic framework of a school. The authors advocate that a judicious combination of academics, culture and value education will be an ideal approach to education and value education needs to be integrated within the school curriculum.