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Science & Value-Education
EFFECTS OF SCIENCE TEACHING ON
SOCIAL VALUES
Dr. Suresh C. Jain
The existing content-oriented curriculum provides a greater emphasis on the intellectual growth of the students which leads only to the intellectual development of the pupils. Human being a highly doveloped animal, would like to live in a well developed society. The origin of well developed society is not depend on technological knowledge only but the need of values, particularly, social values play a dominant role. The scientific and technological developments are the products of human activities and can not be separated from human values. The goal of all activities concerned with scientific research and human behaviour is the search of truth. It may be scientific truth and can be demonstrated or moral truth which can be felt only. We (human) feel a great satisfaction by creating luxuriour life through several scientific investigations but the pleasure of this satisfaction remains incomplete due to the lack of human values.
What are these values ? From where did these come. How can these be propagated ? One finds it very difficult to define. Roughly the values can be defind as the acts of life meant to assist society in its smooth running, create happiness and prosperity among people. Values are guidelines, influencing our behaviour and choice. These may be improving the quality of life with personal commitment as well as social ethic, hence these may be of personal and social types. The values relating intrinsic needs to extrinsic satisfactions. These may not be uniform for all human society and vary with the culture, religion and even geography of the community. The author would like to describe the effect of science, teaching on some of the social values existed in the Indian culture particularly in the Hindu culture of the north India in this write up.
The school education runs for 12 years divided into primary for first five years. upper primary or middle for next three years, high school for next two years and higher secondary for the last two years. The teaching of science forms an integral part of school education
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