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Wednesday, Jan 12, 2005

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`Adopt value-based education'

By Our Staff Reporter

BANGALORE, JAN. 11. The Commissioner for Public Instruction, Sanjiv Kumar, on Tuesday stressed the importance of value-based education.

He was inaugurating a symposium on "Value-based education," organised by the Associated Managements of Primary and Secondary Recognised English Medium Schools here.

"Value-based education is not merely a matter of discipline. It is the lifeline of one's being, an intra-personal transaction," he said and added that teachers should inculcate good values and impart them to their students.

"The existing curriculum-based teaching needs to change. Teachers should help students develop an ability to judge on their own. They should be able to differentiate between good and bad values in them and others too," Mr. Kumar said.

Advising school managements to include value-based education in their curriculum, he said: "Character building is the core of value education, and it is the duty of teachers to mould the character of their students."

The Deputy Director of the Department of Public Instruction, Bangalore Division, K. Joseph, wanted teachers to protect, preserve, practise, promote and preach values.

He expressed displeasure over the mass burial/cremation of bodies of tsunami victims and said this is because most people did not like to care and share. "The tsunami victims in other affected countries have been given a decent burial. This shows how important values are," he said.

The Regional Manager and Chief Editor of Orient Longman, Sheila J. Kurian, conducted a workshop on value-based education for teachers.

`We Are The World'

After its "Sangam" series (which integrate four subjects into one book), Orient Longman recently released a series on value-based education, We Are The World. The set of 10 books is for children from class 1 to 10. The publishers claim the books provide children with material to reflect upon, scope to think things out for themselves, and the freedom to make their own decisions and choices with growing confidence and responsibility.

The books are available at Tapovan, No 46/47, Rama Rao Layout, Banashankari 3rd Stage, Katriguppe, Bangalore (phone: 26690258).

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