An India Centric Analysis: Providing an Indigenous Approach for Enhancing Education System by Inculcating Moral, Value and Spiritual Education in Pupil Teachers

Abstract

This paper on Mysore’s Ramakrishna Institute of Moral and Spiritual Education (RIMSE) elucidate various facts about the spiritual, value and moral education in its B.Ed. curriculum and examines the overall training effect of an indigenous integrated approach of this institute (RIMSE) on pupil teachers on psychological, societal and institutional levels. To analyse the data collected and generated; qualitative methodology was vigorously used. For the purpose of this investigation, in-situ case study as a method was applied in a longitudinal format. For collecting data document analysis, participant-observation, interviews, and questionnaire were used in a narrowing funnel approach. In conjunction with qualitative method, data was also analysed by employing appropriate statistical procedures such as frequency distribution, percentage etc. for further validation. Current RIMSE students were inducted as participants (N=79), whom the researcher considered using incidental sampling technique. RIMSE today strives to build a spiritual base for their students for making value education as integral part of their educational programs. This study may play a significant role in making some fundamental changes in other teacher training institution in the country as acknowledged by developmental psychologists across the globe. In fact, findings of this study may also open new horizons in inculcation of such values in various types of institutions at various levels of our psychological, pedagogical arrangements and educational system.