EDUCATION FOR MORAL VALUES IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA: APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES

In the era of scientific inventions and technological advancement, industrialization and modernization people are becoming more and more materialistic. The people are losing ground in cherished values this nation stood for in the ancient past. The Indian philosophy has been remained filled with such kind of values like serving human kind, love for nature, sacrifice, and respect for elders and devotion for one‟s profession etc. Once it was known as "Golden Bird" and today it is among one of the poorest of the nations. It was also called "Jagadguru” and but today the same thing is quite ironical and reciprocal. The degradation in moral values can be easily felt by reading of the day to day news. As a result our society is wrestling with a multiplicity of problems like increasing rate of crime, selfishness, hooliganism, abuse of human rights, frustration, corruption, violence and immorality. Why is our country going down a path of moral bankruptcy? Therefore there is great need of kind of education system that could impart moral values by integrating it with core curriculum of the school which is better termed as moral education (or citizenship education, moral reasoning, value education, and character education). This paper is an effort to look in to various approaches and strategies in order to imbibe among the students some sets of moral values through education.