Author: Swami Prabhananda
Publisher: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 332
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187332468
Description
The National Seminar on Philosophy and Science of Value Education in Today’s Context, held here on 21-22 January 2005, created great interest among scholars of several disciplines.
The notion of value is basically western and the examination of this concept is a recent phenomenon in India. Simply speaking, value stands for the worth of a thing or action or disposition, while valuation stands for the estimation. The realm of values is ordinarily distinguished from that of facts. But philosophers, theologians, psychologists, economists and other specialists have given connotations so very different from one another that a new researcher in the field find sit somehow bewildering. Some feel that the highly-used and misused word value should give way to a one precisely-defined word. But at the same time, many issues involved in various definitions are so important that they cannot be washed away.
The Country today is in the midst of a momentous transition. Advancement in the material sphere-aided by science and technology has been remarkable. There is however, an asymmetry between material progress and human moral capacity to sustain the same. This is written large in every major sector of human activity. The theory and practice of Value Education can be of great relevance in analyzing the present predicament. At the same time, it calls for a fresh look into the academic and other means of value transmission and value generation.
Contents
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
INAUGURAL SESSION
Welcome Address
Address of Benediction
Address by Guest of Honour
Inaugural speech
Chairman’s Address
Vote of thanks
FIRST ACADEMIC SESSION
Value Education: A Case Study of Sri Sathya Sai
Institute of Higher Learning
Value of Education and Value Education
SECOND ACADEMIC SESSION
Value Education as on a Philosophical theory of Relation between Facts and Values
The Crisis of family values Today
Value-based Leadership and Professional Education
THIRD ACADEMIC SESSION
Science, Education and Human Values
Evolutional Education vis-à-vis Value
Education-a Vedanta Perspective in the light of Swami Vivekananda’s Teachings
FOURTH ACADEMIC SESSION
Science as an Aid towers Value Education
Genes and Environment in the enrichment of Value
FIFTH ACADEMIC SESSION
Policy Perspective on Values in School Education
Role of teachers and Parents in Imparting value Education
SIXTH ACADEMIC SESSION
Absence of value Education-the Resultant clinical Mental Scenario
A common man’s View of Value Education and Media
Media’s Contribution to Value Education
DISCUSSION
Discussion on the paper of R Kumar Bhaskar
Discussion on the paper of J N Mohanty
Discussion on the paper of Keya Sinha
Discussion on the paper of S P Mukherjee
Discussion on the paper of Asis Dutta
Discussion on the paper of Swami Atmapriyananda
Discussion on the paper of J V Narlikar
Discussion on the paper of A K Sharma
Discussion on the paper of J S Rajput
Discussion on the paper of Nilanjana Sanyal
Discussion on the paper of Saibal Gupta
Discussion on the paper of Swapan Mallick
VALEDICTORY SESSION
Welcome Address
Swami Prabhananda
Brief Summing-up of the Proceedings
Samir Bhattacharya