Nature of value education

According to Gaur et al; value education has been developed to meet the following four requirements:

• Education should be holistic and not fragmented.

• Education should address the self.

• Education should be closely associated with life and living.

• Maternal mortality ratio (MMR)

• Its methodology should facilitate understanding and not just rote learning.

Thus the value education is not the education of one specific domain of knowledge. It covers the entire gamut of issues ranging from science to meaningful life. It covers the issues connected with existence, family and society, religion, politics, social action, science and development. It aims to empower the self. In this sense value education is not merely a structural or essentialist theory of man’s conditions it also empowers (humanizes) human beings. It is not just a matter of learning a new theory of one’s life-world, a man needs to be informed about, Jeevan Vidya meets the criterion of relevance in personal life and human relationships. Its methodology is simple and universal, the validity of propositions coming from experiential verification in the inter-subjective context. The assumption is that all of humans are capable of validating knowledge based on experiences, natural acceptance and inter-subjective dialogue.