Value Education and Human Rights Education (Set of 2 Volumes)

About the Book

This is an ideal, up-to-date and comprehensive textbook on “Value Education and Human Rights Education” for all postgraduate students of Education in all Universities in India and in the Universities of developing and developed countries. In its 26 chapters the authors have very clearly, analytically, precisely and lucidly dealt with all the aspects of value education values, their classification, theories of values, sources of values, values enshrined in the Constitution of India, determinants of values and their bearing on education, role of education in realizing values, disvalues, dimensions of widespread contemporary value crisis, meaning, objectives and need of value education and its development in Indian history, recommendations of all important committees and commissions of Education in India, contemporary challenges before value educators, ten models of value education in India, concept of excellence versus self- centeredness, concept of work versus selfishness, concept of happiness and methods of teaching of value education.

About the Authors

Prof. S.P. Ruhela, the pioneering sociologist of education, value educator, teacher educator, futurologist of education and spiritualist, was Professor, Head and Dean of Education in the Himachal Pradesh University and Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi. He has been keenly interested in observing all the various educational developments in India ever since the Education Commission (1964-66) was in progress.

Prof. Ruhela had officiated as Vice-Chancellor of the Jamia Millia Islamia four times. He specializes in Sociology of Education, Sociology of Indian Social Institution, Sociology of Nomadism, Sai Baba spiritual movement, Basic Education, Educational Technology, Teaching of Social Sciences and Futurology of Indian Education. He has written over 50 books and guided 22 doctoral researches in Education. He has been a Member of the Programme Advisory Committees of the NCERT and the NIΕΡΑ, New Delhi.

Prof. Raj Kumar Nayak is a young, energetic and scholarly teacher educator, speculating in philosophy of education, value education and the contemporary problems and issues in Indian education. He is author of six books on Education and co-authored two books with Prof. Ruhela; National Educational Policy and Development: Today and Tomorrow and Value Education and Human Rights Education (Vol. I)