'Value Education' in Higher Education Institute

Roy, Chandan Roy (2011): 'Value Education' in Higher Education Institute. Published in: Philosophy of Values , Vol. ISBN:, No. First Edition, 2012 (8 September 2012): pp. 149-156.

Abstract

This paper focuses interlinkage between ‘Value Education’ and ‘Sustainable Development’ in special reference to Higher Education Institutes of India. Sustainable Development, which accepts the responsibility of future generations, cannot be possible without morality being imbibed in human nature and that should be done in adolescence when he passes through several confusions and queries. This paper suggests few curricular and co-curricular modifications of Higher Education Institutes and explains within an era of consumerism, an urgent need of altruist approach is a dire necessity to save this earth from its forthcoming danger.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Value Education, Higher Education Institute, Sustainable Development
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I23 - Higher Education ; Research Institutions; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education and Research Institutions > I21 - Analysis of Education; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q0 - General > Q01 - Sustainable Development

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