Education in Human Values for Human Excellence

Contents: Preface. I. Philosophical foundations of human values: 1. Value of education vis-a-vis value education: Swami Vivekananda\'s fundamental thoughts on education and their practical application in the present-day context/Swami Atmapriyananda. 2. Good life in Mahabharata: Purusarthas revisited in the light of narrative ethics/Rekha Jhanji. 3. Human values for human excellence/B.H. Briz-Kishore. 4. Value education for human excellence/Bhoomittra Dev. 5. Relevance of Gandhian values in the twenty-first century/Anurag Gangal and Renu Gangal. 6. Values of peace and justice in Islam/Mohd. Akhtar Siddiqui. II. Human values, society and diversity: 7. Relevance of value education in the present-day world/Pooja and Sangeeta. 8. Understanding human values in times of cultural conflicts/Ashwani Rana. 9. Education in human values amidst diversities/S.L. Sharma. 10. Relationship between diversity and human values/Suraj Pathak. 11. Value-crisis, we and the present times/D.R. Vij. III. Techniques and approaches to value education: 12. Approaches to value education/Anuradha Agnihotri. 13. Teaching techniques for value education/Sucheta. 14. Education in human values: need and techniques/Kirandeep Singh. 15. Education in human values: some techniques/S. Abdul Kareem. 16. Inculcation of values: the crucial role of teachers/Kulwant Singh Pathania. 17. Value development among students: vital role of teachers/P.L. Gupta. 18. Trinity of learning: parents, teacher and child/Anant Ram Thakur. 19. Development of values: some practical approaches/Yadavendra Kumar Sharma. IV. Teacher education and human values: 20. Value oriented teacher education/Ramachandra Jantli. 21. Human values and teacher education/A.S. Sethi. 22. Teacher training in values: some thoughts/Kalplata Pandey. 23. Sri Sathya Sai education in human values for teacher education programme: teachers as role models/Madhu Kapani. 24. Value based teacher development in higher education/Yoginder Verma. V. Values in action: 25. Teaching of human values in professional courses/K. Aiyadurai. 26. Role of physical education in the development of values/Y.P. Sharma. 27. Education in human values: a case study of Sri Sathya Sai Baba\'s system of education/Neeta Khanna. 28. Human values, quality in education, judiciary and professional development: a critical review/Mehraj Uddin. 29. Science and technology and value inculcation/J. Shashidhara Prasad. 30. Value orientation in science teaching/K. Anil Kumar. 31. Managerial excellence and human values/Shashi Verma. 32. Values and environment/Kiran Rekha. 33. Effective administration of educational institutions: lessons from the Indian heritage/N. Sivakumar and U.S. Rao. Index.

"During the Tenth Plan, the UGC plans to promote value education and human rights and duties education in universities and colleges. Realizing that there is erosion of human values and desecration of moral landscape and also that disproportionate and excessive emphasis on the rights of citizens, as against duties has ignored the fact duty is inalienable mandatory part and source of right, value education should be made an integral part of various regular courses and programmes.

This volume is a collection of 33 essays contributed by educationists, religious thinkers, educational administrators and social scientists. The thoughts expressed in these writings will help the readers to understand the fundamentals which are the roots of various dimensions of human values. The solution to human problems at global level lies in value based living and that is possible only if a person becomes true human being. It is education that develops the humanness in a person. Besides formal education, the role of parents, teachers and societal environment is of paramount significance in helping the child to develop human values, the source of which lies within a person." (jacket)