Teaching of Moral Values Development : New Trends and Innovations

Contents: Preface. 1. Values clarification: nature and goals. 2. Difficulty of developing values. 3. The teaching of values. 4. Values in retreat. 5. Values and thinking. 6. Values clarification: process and content. 7. Values clarification in operation. 8. Values without philosophy. 9. Values in development. 10. Moral education in the liberal arts. 11. Humanities, moral education and the contemporary world. 12. Character development in the liberal arts. 13. Thinking and valuing. 14. Toward a spiritual education. 15. Indian school curriculum: moral values, aims and purposes. Bibliography. Index.

"In the context of value education, the national policy on education, 1986 (revised 1992) observed, "The growing concern over the erosion of essential values and an increasing cynicism in society has brought to focus the need for readjustments in the curriculum in order to make education a forceful tool for cultivation of social and moral values". In our culturally plural society, education should foster universal and eternal values oriented towards the unity and integration of our people. The programme of action, 1986 (1992) also suggested for establishing Institutes of Moral Education both at the centre and state levels for promoting moral values of integrity, truth, devotion, loyalty etc." (jacket)