With the aim of reinforcing values in students, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has introduced an education kit to help them carry forward these objectives.
The ‘values education kit’, which is proposed to serve as a broad guideline for teachers on moral education, was brought out today by the CBSE in the presence of new HRD Minister M. M. Pallam Raju.
“The universal ideals of love, peace, tolerance, forgiveness, humility, non-violence and sacrifice are the cornerstones of the education,” Raju said launching the kit here.
Although value education would be inculcated among all students in age appropriate ways, the board issues specific guidelines to assess students for three to five months in each subject at the summative assessment level in classes 9 and 10.
The assessment will be done through questions which will be integrated with the content of the subject and analysed on the basis of the values it reflects.
The Education Kit comprises a handbook and value cards, besides a CD of songs symbolising values of peace, solidarity and respect for nature.
It will serve as a model for providing value education and at the same time allowing for variations that schools using it may want to adopt.
The handbook also deals with ways to integrate values into the curriculum.
It also highlights some critical concerns such as the need for strengthening the home, school and community partnership and concern for parents’ involvement in school on education of children.