Sikshachinan, Vol. 3 : 72-76 (March, 2009) Value Awareness Among Secondary School Students of West Bengal Bhim Chnadra Mondal 1 and Jayanta Mete 2 1 Sponsored Teachers’ Training College, Deshbandhu Road, Purulia-723101, W.B. India 2 Reader, Dept Of Education, Kalyani University, Kalyani-741 235, Nadia, W.B. India ABSTRACT : The present investigation has been conducted to study the levels of value awareness among the secondary school students residing either at rural or urban sectors. A self-made situation based questionnaire was used to collect the data from 600 secondary school students. The collected data were analysed with suitable statistical techniques such as ANOVA, t-test etc. The results indicate that urban boys possess higher value awareness than that of its rural counter part. However no significant differences in the level of value awareness was found for boys and girls student. Introduction Value education refers to the study of development of essential values in pupils and the practices suggested for promotion of the same. Values are self-demanding, self sacrificing and are not based on impulsive act. In its full range of meaning, value education includes developing the appropriate sensibilities - moral, cultural, spiritual and the ability to make proper value judgment and internationalize them in one’s life. In spite of diverse meaning, the basic concept of values is same. The education Commission (1964-66) recommended that the educational system should emphasize on the development of the fundamental social, moral and spiritual values. Emphasis has also been given on the value education in recent years due to the crisis of values that our society is currently experiencing. The National Policy of Education, 1986 declares that the growing concern over the erosion of essential values and increasingly cynicism in society has brought to focus the need for readjustment in the curriculum in order to make the education a forceful tool for the cultivation of social and moral values. Value can be inculcated through proper education(R.B.L. Soni,2003). It is a powerful