Iosr journal of Research & Method in Education (iosr-jrme) e-issn: 2320

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IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSR-JRME) 
e-ISSN: 2320
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7388,p-ISSN: 2320
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Volume 1, Issue 1 (Jan. 
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Feb. 2013), PP 17-20 
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Value-Based Education: Professional Development vital towards 
effective integration 
 
Dr. Ranjani Balaji Iyer 
Abstract: 
Value-based education promotes a thought provoking and interactive environment for the students 
through the values incorporated in the curriculum. It promotes quality education and holistic development of 
each child for a bright future. Teachers play an important role in helping students imbibe the values. 
Professional development is vital in integrating values in the classroom. Understanding the principles and aim 
of values education enable teachers to create effective learning environment for values education. This article 
suggests steps to construct a value based curriculum towards quality education. This also emphasizes the 
importance and need for teacher training for better outcome on the topic, and also suggests a plan to prepare 
teachers as values educators.
I.
 
Need for Value-based Education 
Value based education instills educational and cultural values among students and aims at achieving 
multi-faceted development of a human being namely intellectual, physical, spiritual, and ethical development. 
The values incorporated in a value-based curriculum may include cooperation, responsibility, happiness, 
simplicity, unity, peace, respect, love, tolerance, honesty, humility, and freedom. The main purpose of holistic 
education is to prepare students to meet the challenges of living as well as academics. Multiple studies have 
reported that value based education is a holistic approach to students' education, one that provides complete 
education of body and mind through innovative approaches and critical educational thinking.
Education can be considered as a means to impart general and specific information; teaching skills and 
most importantly inculcate values. The present system of education is almost wholly geared to the first, a little 
to the second and only marginally to the third (Burra, 2007). The neglect of ethical values, which should form 
the substratum of any good education, has led to ineffectual, decadent, empty learning. Burra describes in the 
article that it is the duty of every society to pass on the values enshrined in its scriptures and philosophical texts 
to each generation, in order, that the spirit of its culture lives on. This can be achieved only when education is 
value oriented. Education should be a process of acquiring true knowledge. In planning for good values and 
objectives, the teacher and student will have to cooperate and work together. The purpose of education is to 
strengthen character in the younger generation which is an answer to many of the problems that face people 
today. It can bring about a widespread renewal of individual commitment to an active life of principle and this 
renewal is imperative. Values like truth, right action, love, peace and non violence include in a balanced way the 
profound moral insights of the great civilizations.