TEACHING VALUES: A STUDY OF UNDERSTANDING OF VALUES OF STUDENT TEACHERS

Abstract

The most important element in the learning environment is invisible. It is made up of the values, attitudes, and actions that our classes and we take part in every day. As the teacher, you can exemplify the values that lead to intellectual curiosity and learning, and you can foster those values in the children in your class. The ways that you interact with children can establish the classroom as a place that nurtures investigation and experiment, hard work, and appreciation for the unique abilities of each learner. The ways that you set up for children to interact also contribute to the daily creation of the learning environment. Values are intimately connected to motives. These connections are complex and ultimately personal, and therefore not completely understandable. They are connected to our sense of wants and needs, and I believe that they need not be justified to be valid. Values are the context, the cognitive and emotional matrix that is different for each human being, but which provides enough generality to have universal applications. I believe that each human being, touching another through common values, can change, and even improve the world. However, when values and value systems collide, the worst potentials of man are often realized. Let us try to find out that if values are so important and the TEACHERS are shaping the destiny of nation in the classroom then what kind of value system our student teachers have in their mind.