Perspectives of Values in Teacher Education
The value education is becoming increasingly prominent in educational discussion at all levels for devoting more time and effort to achieve greater understanding and awareness of human values. In our pluralistic society education has to foster universal values as well as orient people towards unity and integration. The NPE 1986 envisages the need to make education a powerful tool for the cultivation of social and moral values. The 81st Report on value based education(1999) submitted to the Indian Parliament has emphasized on the inculcation of core universal values viz. Truth, non-violence, righteous conduct, love and peace, The Preamble of the Indian Constitution, ands a no. of Education commissions and Committees in India since Independence have emphasized on the need for formulation of programmes on value based education through educational institutions.