Development of Values through Science Teaching
Abstract
Values are the guiding principles of our lives. They are essential for positive human behaviour and actions in our daily lives. They are formed on the basis of interest, choices, need, desire and preferences. They have played important role in not only sociology, but also psychology, anthropology and related disciplines.
Development of values is pivotal which shape human personality. Which provide identify of an individual in the society and in the surroundings.
Core values are thoroughly imparted to the students through science teaching which shape students personality. It is equally important to ensure that the youth are equipped with core values needed to live as responsible citizens in complex democratic societies.
Under the lust of greediness, the people in the world became self-centered and exploited their associates causing flux in world fiscal and public order .To come out of this confusion and strengthen the social fabric, are following all types of values which are common world over and are basic and relevant for all times through science teaching.
The need for value education has been stressed by all the commissions set up for educational development viz., Radha Krishna commission (1948), Sri prakasa committee on religious and moral instructions , Kothari commission (1964-66),National policy on education(1986).The programme of Action (1992) emphasized, value education as an integral part of school curriculum.
According to Plato the outstanding eternal values are Truth, Goodness and Beauty. These values are three areas of education .All these three aspects if practiced would make students value conscious.
The parliamentary standing committee on human resource development in its 81st report on the value based education (1999) has highlighted that Truth, Righteous conduct, peace, love and non-violence as the core universal values , which need to be identified as the foundation stone on which the value based education programme can be built up .so this paper discusses the need of value education, how science infuses the values in the students.
Various activities those help to inculcate each value in students are also discussed .Among the science lessons selected, emphasis was given to environment related topics , keeping in view, the position given to environmental values and sustainable development in human values education.
The main aim of the paper is to illustrate how development of values through science teaching.
