Value Education And Social Transformation
Contents: Preface. Acknowledgement. I. Universality of Value Education: 1. India 2000: challenge and response/Karan Singh. 2. Value education: a sociological perspective/Yogendra Singh. 3. Value-based education: a civilizational perspective/L.M. Singhvi. 4. Some reflections on higher education, state and social hierarchy in India/K.L. Sharma. 5. Ethical concerns in public administration. 6. Balanced development: key to sustainable development/K.D. Gangrade. 7. Peace education in the third world/Naresh Dadhich. 8. Education, societal transformation and the global society: theoretical perspectives and operational dimensions/B.M. Jain. 9. Is peace education changing the world? A meta-evaluation of peace-building programmes in high-conflict regions/Susan Summers Raines. 10. Gandhi, non-violence and American literature/Michael True. II. Value education: some Indian experiments: 11. Education and values: changing dimensions and challenges - a Gandhian formulation/Asha Kaushik. 12. Self-development in education for peace, values and human excellence/Sunil Kumar. 13. Non-violence: an eternal religion/Acharya Mahapragya. 14. The Jain principle of Ahimsa and ecology/S.L. Gandhi. 15. Gandhian education: key to harmony/K.D. Gangrade. 16. Preparing humankind for the new millennium through value orientation in educational institutions: a Baha’i viewpoint/A.K. Merchant. 17. Caste and community in the private and public education of Mysore state/T.N. Madan and B.G. Halbar. 18. Discipline: the road to human development/Geeta Chaturvedi. III. Value education at the school and college levels: 19. Value education: premises and priorities/T.N. Chaturvedi. 20. Why moral education?/Yogesh Atal. 21. Value-oriented education in India/Ram Ahuja. 22. Designing a peace education programmes for schools/Naina Sharma. 23. Value orientation in higher education/T.K.N. Unnithan. 24. Social values and social regeneration: globalization of social values/Naina Sharma. 25. Implementation of national programmes for strengthening education value/D.K. Bhattacharjee. Appendixes. Contributors. Index.
In the present world where ills like communalism, terrorism, casteism, corruption, gender inequality and fundamentalism still constitute the ‘cultural ethos’ of society, the need for value education and the role it can play in social transformation, cannot be overemphasized.
Today, despite recognizing the importance of education in making children conscious of the value of social justice, democracy, equality, secularism, tolerance and fraternity, most of our schools are unable to internalize them into their personality. Thus, unless the cluster of purposive value system is transmitted to children at early schooling, the notion of a ‘just society’ will always remain a myth.
The present volume, with 25 articles divided into three sections, and written by widely acclaimed social scientists, philosophers and activists, has been designed against the above backdrop. In a sense, it exhibits the rules of polity, culture and economy in shaping education and value system and vice versa.
The volume will be useful not only for scholars and students but will also interest policy makers.
