Value Analysis – A Holistic Approach to Value Education for Developing A Culture of Peace and Values Among Students

Abstract

Education in the true sense should be to empower individuals to enable them to be makers of peace rather than only consumers of peace. Teachers should make deliberate attempts to infuse and reinforce the importance of peace and values that are commensurate with the textual material taught in school and the developmental stages of children. Education for peace is holistic and transformative, incorporating a number of ideas in its definition and practice. It embraces the physical, intellectual and social growth of children within a framework of human values. How to teach peace and values in the classroom is a challenge as it is different from other conventional subjects, which are taught at any level of education. The process of value analysis or analysis of the value conflicts is done through the help of scientifically prepared worksheets. Values cannot be forced, even if conveyed with good intentions. As students begin to identify and think about values, they will be able to realize that values often conflict. Value conflict is a fact of life. Nobody can live without value conflict. It may often lead to inconsistencies in behaviour of individuals and put the individual into a painful situation. The individual tries to come out of the value conflict. He arrives at an appropriate and desirable conclusion. As value analysis is practiced in the classroom, a culture of peace and values can be created