INCULCATING VALUES IN SCHOOL STUDENTS: A RECOMMENDED PROGRAMME

Abstract

School Education Systems are charged with the daunting task of preparing the next generation of citizens. However, the research shows that School Education Systems, both government aided and government unaided, have struggled to effectively inculcate human and social values to meet the needs of our fast-changing Environment and Society. The affective development of a child is focused very less compared to cognitive development. Moral science as a subject is not focused as much as it deserves. Inculcating human and social values in students aims at sensitizing them in their life and making them responsible towards different components of the Society and Environment. To this end, this article recommends the human and social values inculcating programme for School Education Systems. In this article, advantages of inculcating human and social values in school students are discussed. Furthermore, this article presents a conceptual programme for inculcating human and social values in school students.This article is a conceptual paper that builds upon the hallmarks of human and social values inculcating programme, absence of which is reflected and manifested at every level in the society and the environment.A conceptual programme for inculcating human and social values in school students is presented. A school education system that does not inculcate human and social values may not have socially and environmentally conscious alumni and alumnae. A deliberate action to inculcate human and social values in school students is urgently required.It is recommended that United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) start an activity based Global School Students' Values Inculcation Programme (GSSVIP) across the world to achieve its overarching objectives. The knowledge partnerships and the programme execution partnerships can be done with bodies having a proven track record like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford Jesuit Institutions, Stanford University etc. The other terms and conditions may be set as per the, feasibility of different stakeholders.A pilot study can be conducted before the actual programme.Running programmes for inculcating human and social values in school students is imperative to support a sustainable society and environment.