Human Values in Education

by N. L. Gupta

Overview

There are indeed some books on ValueEducation by foreign writers, based on alien perspective. The present volume on this subject is perhaps the first one covering the entire field in Indian perspective. Dr. Gupta has written number of books on Human Values with different angles and pers-pectives. The most noted are ‘A Search for Human Values', ‘Values and Creativity', ‘Neo-Humanism' and ‘Human Values', etc. As a noted educationist and a reputed scholar, Dr. Gupta, the author of the book has done a pioneering work in compiling all the information pertaining to the theory and practice of Value Education and Interpreting its implication and application in the school situation. The book reflects a deep study of the subject in all its aspects and furnishes valuable guidelines to build an effective programme of valueeducation for schools and colleges, in terms of our national requirements. The book will also assist the parents and the social workers to create conditions in homes and the community for the children to develop desirable traits of character in relation to self and society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789354396403
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	265
File size:	852 KB

About the Author

Dr. N.L. Gupta (b. 1940) is the first scholar to obtain a Ph.D. from two different faculties of Nagpur University. He has a series of Postgraduate degrees and many firsts at his credit. He is the first candidate to submit a thesis for D.Litt. in R.S. University Raipur. He is the first writer to get subsidy for a Hindi book BerarKe Sufi Shayar from Governor of Maharashtra, which is oftly quoted by Urdu scholars. Recently he has been awarded by Maharashtra Hindi Granth Academy for the best work on Literary criticism styled as Nav-Manavatavadi Chintan" (Neo-humanistic Thought). Dr. Gupta is a prolific writer. Besides many research papers, he has 41 books in both Hindi and English at his credit Dr. Gupta's writings have a very broad spectrum of themes which include Literature, History, Culture, Education Sociology, Philosophy, Theology and so on. He is considered to be the authority on 'Value Education' on which he has contributed as many as six books with different angles. Latest in the series was Education and Values in the Mahabharata, Mulya Parak Shiksha of about 400 pages published from Ajmer, has been profusely quoted by the scholars. Presently Dr. Gupta is working as Assistant Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.