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Module 1 Course Introduction- Need, Basic Guidelines, Content, Process

The document outlines the importance of Value Education as a means to foster positive values and attitudes in students, emphasizing the need for self-exploration and understanding of universal human values. It highlights the aspiration for continuous happiness and prosperity, advocating for harmony at all levels of living—individual, family, society, and nature. The process involves natural acceptance and experiential validation to resolve internal contradictions and achieve a state of harmony.

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Module 1 Course Introduction- Need, Basic Guidelines, Content, Process

The document outlines the importance of Value Education as a means to foster positive values and attitudes in students, emphasizing the need for self-exploration and understanding of universal human values. It highlights the aspiration for continuous happiness and prosperity, advocating for harmony at all levels of living—individual, family, society, and nature. The process involves natural acceptance and experiential validation to resolve internal contradictions and achieve a state of harmony.

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Course

Introduction- Need,
Basic Guidelines,
Content and
Process for Value
Education
Understandi
ng
Harmony
Harmony
• State of agreement or of
peaceful existence
together.
• Pleasing combination of
musical notes, colors,
etc.
• A consistent, orderly,
or pleasing
arrangement of parts;
congruity.
Value
Education
Value
Education
Values Education is an essential
element of whole-person
education which aims at
fostering students' positive
values and attitudes through the
learning and teaching of various
Key Learning Areas/subjects
and the provision of relevant
learning experiences.
Understanding
Value Education
Value education deals with what is universally
valuable to all of us, what is conducive to our
individual and collective happiness and
prosperity in a sustainable way. It enables us to
be in harmony within ourselves, with other
human beings and with rest of nature at large.
Need for Value
Education
• Correct identification of our aspirations
• Understanding universal human values to fulfil our
aspirations in continuity
• Complementarity of values and skills
a) One must know what really is conducive to human
happiness (wisdom domain)
b) Learn methods and practices to actualize this goal (skills
domain)
• Evaluation of our beliefs
• Technology and human values
Need for Value Education
Basic Guidelines for
Value Education

Whatever is studied as value


education needs to be
universally applicable to all
human beings and be
always true and all places. It
should not depend on sect,
creed, nationality, race,
gender, etc.
The Content of Value Education

The content of value education will be to understand


myself, my aspirations, my happiness; understand the
goal of human life comprehensively, understand the other
entities in nature, the innate inter-connectedness, the
coexistence in the nature- existence and finally the role of
human being in this nature.
Scope of Study
• All dimensions- thought, behavior, work and realization
• All levels of human living- individual, family, society,
nature/existence of human living.
The Process of Value
Education

The process for value


education must be that
of self-exploration, which
includes two things:
verification at the level of
natural acceptance and
experiential validation in
living.
Self-Exploration as the
Process for Value
Education

The process for value education must


be that of self-exploration, which
includes two things: verification at
the level of natural acceptance and
experiential validation in living.
Self exploration is a process of
discovering that there is something
innate, invariant and universal in all
human beings. This enables us to
look at the confusions and
contradictions within us and resolve
them by becoming aware of our
natural acceptance.
Once we start observing inside, we can
achieve harmony at all levels of our living.

Starting to
Observe Inside
What is Self-
Exploration?
What is its
Purpose?
Content of
self
exploration
The Desire/Goal/Aspiration:
involves What is my (human) Desire/
finding
answers for Goal? What do I really want in
Content the following
fundamental life, or what is the goal of
questions of human life?
of Self- all the
human
Exploratio beings:
The Program: What is my
n (human) program for fulfilling
my aspirations? How to fulfil
it? What is the program to
actualize the above?
Process of Self-Exploration
Natural acceptance is process to
understand ourselves first. Natural
Natural Acceptance acceptance implies unconditional and
total acceptance of the self, people and
environment. It also refers to the
absence of any exception from others.
In other words, Natural acceptance is
way to accept the good things
naturally.
• Natural acceptance does not change
with time
• It does not depend on the place
• It does not depend on our beliefs or
past conditionings
• This natural acceptance is ‘constantly
there’, something we can refer to
• Natural acceptance is the same for all of
us: it is part and parcel of every human
being, it is part of human-ness
Neither are we verifying our
assumptions/ proposals put to us
What is the based on our natural acceptance.

State
Today? Nor are we verifying what we
think we know, in our living.
What is the
Way Out?
What do we
Need to Do?

Realization and Understanding


• Verification of the proposals based on our natural acceptance
• Experiential validation by living according to it
The Basic Human
Aspirations – Continuous
Happiness and
Prosperity
Continuous Happiness and
Prosperity – Our Basic Aspirations
There are two basic aspirations
of every human being.
Continuous happiness and
prosperity. These are the bases
of all our desires and the efforts
that go towards achieving
these.
Exploring Happiness
and Prosperity
?
A Look at the Prevailing
Notions of Happiness
and Prosperity

In the prevailing notion, we


generally are trying to achieve
happiness and prosperity
by maximizing accumulation
and consumption of physical
facilities. An attempt to achieve
happiness through pleasant
sensory interactions.
Some Possible
Questions/Confusi
ons
Confusions

• Boredom
• Learning and improvement
• Recognize
• Thinking of others
• Inseparability of happiness and
unhappiness
• Desire
• Dependent on others
• Happiness for others
• Higher aspirations
• Abstract notion
Reflex
Point
Maslow’s
Hierarchy
of Needs
The Program to Basic requirements for fulfilment of human aspirations -
Three things are needed in order to fulfill basic human
Fulfil Basic Human aspirations–right understanding, right relationships
Aspirations and physical facilities.
• In relationship – mutual fulfilment
• From physical facilities –
prosperity in us, enrichment in
nature
What is
our State
Today?
Why are we in this State? – Living with
Wrong Assumptions
What is the solution? - The
need for right understanding

We need to understand the harmony at all


levels of our living‚ ourselves, family,
society and nature/existence. The need
for right understanding and relationship is
what distinguishes a human being from an
animal. Fulfillment of relationships
based on right understanding leads to
mutual happiness.
Our Program: Right living or samskara refers to the ability to live in
harmony at all the four levels of living. This dimension
Understand and of society works to ensure 'right understanding' and
'right feelings' in individual.
Live in Harmony At the level of society, individuals aspire to ensure
at all Levels of harmony and integration among four levels
- Individual, Family, Society and Nature. This is the
Living aspiration; this is the desire, this is the innate need of
every human being, regardless of age, gender, caste,
creed, nation and beliefs.
The feeling of acceptance of excellence in the other is
called reverence. We understand that we aspire for
continuous happiness and to realize it, we must
understand harmony at all the levels of our living and
live accordingly.
Value education enables us to understand our
Compone needs and visualize our goals correctly and
nts helps to remove our confusions and
contradictions and bring harmony at all levels.
Our State Today
• Conflicts
• Opposition
• contradictions
Our Natural
Acceptance for
harmony at All
Levels of Our
Living

Our natural acceptance is


only for harmony
• We do not accept
conflict/contradiction
• We do not want to
merely avoid
conflict/contradiction
• We desire
harmony/synergy at all
levels of our living
Human and Animal
Consciousness
• Human consciousness emerges on the
interface between three components of animal
behavior: communication, play, and the use of
tools. These three components interact based
on anticipatory behavioral control, which is
common for all complex forms of animal life.
• Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is
the quality or state of self-awareness within a
non-human animal, or of being aware of an
external object or something within itself.
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