Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies,
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VALUE EDUCATION IN INDIA: CONCEPT, TYPES AND GENESIS
Jhansi Jena
1
, Gouranga Charan Nanda
2
, Ph. D. & Sankar Prasad Mohanty
3
, Ph. D.
1
Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Education, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, India
E-mail: jrjhansi@rediffmail.com
2
Formerly Professor and Head, Department of Education, Ravenshaw University,
Cuttack, India
3
Associate Professor of Education, Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha,
India, Email: spmohanty75@yahoo.com
This paper is a conceptual paper which deals with concept of values, value education and genesis or
historical development of values in India. Genesis or historical development of values has been
discussed with reference to ancient Vedic period, Buddhist period, medieval period, pre-independence
period and post independence period in India. The values such as Truth (Satyam), Beauty (Sunderam)
and Goodness (Sivam) have been referred to as intrinsic and instrumental. Different types of values
have been discussed in this paper such as health value, economic, social value, cultural value,
religious value, moral value, spiritual value, aesthetic value, humanistic value, constitutional values,
and global values. By going through this paper one can get a complete idea about values, its types
and historical development or genesis of values.
Keywords: Values, Value Education, Historical Development of Values.
Introduction
Values are both intrinsic, desirable in itself and instrumental, to achieve certain goals.
It is the essential norm which is the measure of all other good things in life. However, this
concept of value has been changing from time to time with the emergence of each new
generation. In academic as well as traditional philosophy, man comes across the widely
accepted concept of timeless values such as Truth (Satyam), Beauty (Sunderam) and
Goodness (Sivam). Value is the cohesive element that binds everything and is involved in
every event, every act of humans. So value apart from its traditional intrinsic function has to
play an instrumental role. It influences our actions and consequences of these actions uphold
the values in the community.
School is supposed to be a model institution for inculcation of values among the
students. But the students after completion of school education do not display desirable
values as expected by the society. The teacher-taught relationship seems to be deteriorated.
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