A STUDY OF STUDENT TEACHERS’ AWARENESS FOR VALUE INCULCATION

We human beings are educated but education without value is fertile. The value based education is now receiving increased attention of all. In this process, the teacher plays a key role. He works as a role model for transforming desirable values to pupils. He is also expected to master in the contents and techniques of promoting the assimilation of desirable values in the students. The main objective of the study is to study the awareness of student teachers for value inculcation. 238 student teachers were selected as the sample of the study. Three B.Ed. colleges of Visnagar city are selected for the study. Normative survey method was used. Questionnaire was used for data collection. Simple statistics was used for analysis of data. The main findings of the study are: student teachers are in favour of value education. They don't have more exposure about value education. Student teachers' perception regarding the mechanisms of imparting value education in school is not clear. Student teachers are of the mix opinion regarding degradation of value education is due to lack of specific syllabus, value oriented books, learning material, proper incentives and no contact between home and school.