Tulsi Prajna 2001 01

SR No.: 524606
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 146
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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To understand the meaning of Values, it can be said that values are those directing and controlling aspect of behaviour depending upon the importance given by individual to various social beliefs, ideals, theories and behavrioural measures. On the basis of values individual selects one
a number of alternatives. Carl Roger believed that it is the quality of showing preferences by man. Allport emphasized that values play important role in making decision. Each and every activity of an individual has the impact of personal and social values. Values are those general and abstract qualities of an object which indicate towards its importance.
Personal Values and social attitudes permit the individual a high degree of consistency in his behaviour. Attitudes and values are mediational states within the individual predisposing him towards certain courses of action and towards certain beliefs and evaluation. History has repeatedly demonstrated that a society is no stronger than the personal values system it embraces. When a child fails to acquire the personal values characteristic of the society in which he lives, he suffers social conflict directly or indirectly. The transmission of appropriate Personal Value is, therefore, an extremely important phase of educational guidance.
To live harmoniously in a given society to different kinds of personal values are required to be developed in student. (i) Values that are related to the relative desirability of different goal objects and (ii) Values that pertain to the relative desirability or undersirability of stable patterns of behaviour. These two types of values define the essentials of civilized patterns of living. They determine the goal objects and style of life for which individuals strive. Personal Values should not be underestimated, they are powerful forces in an individuals behaviour. Parents and teachers have the responsibility for transmitting those goal - object values that have been proved to be most helpful and comforting to man during his cultural history. The Personal values that guide individual behaviour may be acquired to a greater extent by direct teaching.
Two meanings can be attached to the term Value. The primary meaning is to prize/to esteem and secondary meaning is to appraise and to estimate. From these, two descriptions of values emerge. In the first sense it is the act of cherishing something, holding it dear and also the act of passing judgement upon the nature and amount of its value as compared with something else. It is what is desired. In second sense it means to evaluate or to estimate. It is 'What is desirable'. Desires are simple expressions of urges and it is a common fact that everything an individual desires is not desirable. These can be elevated to the level of desirable by Education which inculcates liking and intelligent likings in an individual.
It is an established fact that individual makes distinctions. We like something and dislike others. We judge some actions good or others bad, some beautiful others harmful. It is the presence/absence of certain 128 AUD I T W
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