POLICY PERSPECTIVES IN PEACE AND VALUE EDUCATION IN INDIAN CONTEXT

Abstract

An autonomous development requires an autonomous education system. And it is necessary to
realize that other than economic and political facts, education has cultural and ethical factory
too but, capitalist development lays so much emphasis on economics that education too is
viewed by it in terms of economics gain and loss of political benefits accrued through it too
are eventually associated with gains and cultural and ethical aspects, are neglected. The
neglect of these facts multiple society on an extensive scale. It must be brought in the behavior
that scale. It must be brought in the behavior that education for development is an approach
to teaching and learning which builds a commitment to global solidarity, peace, justice and
environment awareness in young people. Its aim is to empower children and youth to
participate in bringing about constructive change both locality and globally. Viewing above
facts it is very clear that peace Education & Value education are pioneering move must be
implemented with vision and determination. A casual attempt could trivialize it and aggravate
cynicism about its efficacy. Education could teach human beings to become the most
sophisticated annihilators of the human being and life on earth. It is also education alone that
can and must educate human being to live with peace and dignity. The pivotal role of this
paper is to focus on the importance of value Education and peace education with policy framing & Implementation. This study is based on library method, will deal in two parts. First
part of this paper tried to find out the need and importance of peace and value education at
national level. Whereas second part (together with first part) is related to the recommendation
and suggestion for implementation of peace and value education in Indian policies and other
documents related to peace & value education.