Tulsi Prajna 1995 07

SR No.: 524584
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 164
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

Page 146

Vol. XXI, No. 2
so as to make it more relevant to the present society. We all know that science effects culture and creates conditions which demand the reinterpretation of old values and or formation of new ones. It includes moral revolution at all levels, may be, even, at the cost of modification in old values. The sayings 'science provides knowledge',
y provides ways to use this knowledge and values guide what we ought to do with both, is correct. So it is not
separate values from science teaching. The science teaching has to be humanized by including necessary informations for students, besides scientific knowledge. Realizing this, the science educationists from all parts of the world are busy in improving the contents and methodology of science, also called 'humanizing science' The work undertaken by National Science Foundation of USA. Nuffield Foundation of UK, NCERT of India, UNESCO, etc., are quite worthy and satisfactory. These agencies are developing science curricula in context with human values and social conditions existing in the society.
There are many science-based human problems like health, disease
trol, food production, energy resources, pollution, population control, mana gement of natural resources, etc. and can be solved with the help of social values to a great extent. The learning through value-oriented science makes it possible for students to become selfadaptive by developing moral convictions. This type of teaching also helps in examining scientifically real life problems in context of science, technology and society. The laboratory exercises related with real life problems should also form a part of practical work. Thus a demand for interdisciplinary curriculum has been made all corners of education, particularly, at school levels. An example can be cited from the social values like worship of natural resources such as forests, water, sun, moon, crops etc. help in conserving nature and natural resources of the earth. The destruction of plants, especially food producing ones, are considered antireligious-activities and it is a big sin to destroy plants, forests and other natural resources in Indian society. Teacher and Values Teaching
The teacher plays an important role in transforming the values of life through personal examples and mode of life. Teachers have been requested to follow and perpetuate Gandhian values like dignity of manual labour, sense of social awareness and responsibility, fearless, truthful, universal love, purity, service, peacefulness through their teaching. Teacher's life should be a spiritual lesson to the students and should help in perpetuating qualities like humility, patience, charity, predence, gentleness, kindness, forgi