Attitude of Higher Secondary Teacher’s Towards Value Education with Their Socio Cultural Context in West Bengal

Value education is such of education which is concerned with the development of the total personality of a child i.e. his intellectual, social, emotional, aesthetic, moral, spiritual and more over the all round development. Value education is always essential to shape one’s life and to give him an opportunity of performing himself on the global stage. In this context the main purpose of this study to find out the attitude of higher secondary teachers towards value education with their socio cultural context in West Bengal. The purpose of the study is to ascertain the values of secondary school teachers with special reference to their gender, locale and marital status. Keeping in view this chapter presents research design, method, sample, population, tools used, data collection, statistical techniques etc. The purpose of this study is to investigate the values of secondary school teachers. To serve this purpose, a descriptive survey and case study, mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) was employed considering that it could help together liable and authentic information on the topic studied. Researcher framed three null hypotheses. The Independent Variables in this study are Gender and Locale and the dependent Variables in this study are teachers. The sample has been selected by using purposive sampling for the study. Total sample of 200 (Two hundred) school teachers district of Jhargram in West Bengal. Total sample is the following tool was used to collect the data-The (Schwartz) Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ). Hypothesis wise interpretation of the survey results is giver as under hypotheses testing and interpretation with t-test. Values are the guiding force which make the teachers effective and perform their duties in accordance with the norms of society. One of the major purposes of this study was to determine the teacher’s values of secondary school teachers in relation to gender, locale and their socio cultural context. This result has been discussed in the light of existing literature and general observations. It is suggested that the teachers should make use of certain techniques such as critical inquiry method, case study, role playing, value clarification technique, value analysis model etc to develop desirable values among the teachers. The same study may be extended to other state, districts, B.Ed, M.Ed, MBA, MCA, Diploma, Engineering and Medical colleges etc. Different other variables like socio-economic status, religion, caste etc. can be included.