Universal Human Values & Professional Ethics
Universal Human Values & Professional Ethics
Based on AKTU last year questions
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Q. What do you mean by values
or human values?
or
What is value education? Why
there is a need of value education?
or
How does value education helps
in fulfilling one's aspirations?
ANS. Character oriented
education that instils basic values and ethnic values in one’s psyche is called
‘Value Based Education’. The subject that enables us to understand ‘what is
valuable’ for human happiness is called value education. Value education is important
to help everyone in improving the value system that he/she holds and puts it to
use. Once, one has understood his/ her values in life he/she can examine and
control the various choices he/she makes in his/ her life. Value education
enables us to understand our needs and visualize our goals correctly and also
helps to remove our confusions and contradictions and bring harmony at all
levels. It also helps remove our confusions and contradictions and enables us
to rightly utilize the technological innovations.
Values form the basis for all our
thoughts, behaviours and actions. Once we know what is valuable to us, these
values becomes the basis, the anchor for our actions. We also need to
understand the universality of various human values, because only then we can
have a definite and common program for value education. Then only we can be
assured of a happy and harmonious human society.
Q. What are the basic
guidelines for value education? (UPTU 2011 – 12)
Ans: The subject that
enables us to understand ‘what is valuable’ for human happiness is called value
education. In order to qualify for any course on value education, the following
guidelines for the content of the course are important:
• Universal: It needs to
be applicable to all the human beings irrespective of cast, creed,
nationalities, religion, etc., for all times and regions.
• Rational: It has to
appeal to human reasoning. It has to be amenable to reasoning and not based on
dogmas or blind beliefs.
• Natural and verifiable:
It has to be naturally acceptable to the human being who goes through the
course and when we live on the basis of such values it leads to our happiness.
It needs to be experientially verifiable, and not based on dogmas, beliefs or
assumptions.
• All encompassing: Value
education is aimed at transforming our consciousness and living. Hence, it
needs to cover all the dimensions (thought, behaviour, work and realization)
and levels (individual, family, society, nature and existence) of human life
and profession.
• Leading to harmony: The
value education ultimately is targeted to promote harmony within the
individual, among human beings and with nature.
Q. What is the need for value
education?
or
Write a short note on the need
for value education in today’s scenario. (MTU 2010–11)
Ans: The subject that
enables us to understand ‘what is valuable’ for human happiness is called value
education. Need for value education is:
Ø Correct identification of our
aspirations. The subject which enables us to understand ‘what is valuable’
for human happiness is called ‘value education’ (VE). Thus, VE enables us to
understand our needs and visualize our goals correctly and also indicate the
direction for their fulfilment. It also helps to remove our confusions and
contradictions and bring harmony at all levels.
Ø Understanding universal human values to
fulfil our aspirations in continuity. Values form the basis for all our
thoughts, behaviours and actions. Once we know what is valuable to us, these
values becomes the basis, the anchor for our actions. We also need to
understand the universality of various human values, because only then we can
have a definite and common program for value education. Then only we can be
assured of a happy and harmonious human society.
Ø Complimentarity of values and skills.
To fulfil our aspirations both values and skills are necessary. When we
identify and set the right goals and produced in right direction. This is known
as value domain, the domain of wisdom, and when we learn and practices
to actualize this goal to develop the techniques to make this happen in real
life, in various dimensions of human endeavor (struggle). This is known as domain
of skills.
Ø Hence, there is an essential
complementarity between values and skills for the success of any human endeavor.
For example, I want to lead a healthy life. Only wishing for good health will
not help me keep my body fit and healthy and without having understood the
meaning of health, I will not be able to choose things correctly to keep my
body fit and healthy.
Ø Evaluation of our beliefs.
Each one of us believes in certain things and we base our values on these
beliefs, be they false or true which may or may not be true in reality. These
believes come to us from what we read, see, hear, what our parents tells us,
our friends talk about, what the magazines talk of, what we see from TV etc.
Value Education helps us to evaluate our beliefs and assumed values.
Ø Technology and human values.
The present education system has become largely skill-based. The prime emphasis
is on science and technology. However, science and technology can only help to
provide the means to achieve what is considered valuable. It is not within the
scope of science and technology to provide the competence of deciding what
really is valuable. Value Education is a crucial missing link in the present
education system. Because of this deficiency, most of our efforts may prove to
be counterproductive and serious crises at the individual, societal and
environmental level are manifesting.
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Q. Values and skill complement
each other. Elaborate.
or
“For success in any Human
Endeavour both values and skills are required.” Explain.
or
What do you mean by values?
How do they differ from skills? How are values and skills complementary?
or
Explain how production skills
and human values are complementary. Give two examples. (UPTU, 2011 – 12)
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