Teaching Values to Students for their Holistic Development: An Analysis of Secondary School Teachers’ Beliefs
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Values, Values education, Holistic development, Pedagogy, Secondary school.Abstract
Education helps in preparing students for holistic development—contributing to the development of not only cognitive or motor skills of students but also plays a significant role in making them an embodiment of morality and good citizenship. It is now commonly accepted that values education is an important and essential ingredient of educations’ responsibilities to inculcate values in students. All the National Education Policy documents from 1947-2009 and the National Curriculum for Islamic Studies and Pakistan Studies, Grades IX-X, 2006, have focused on inculcating values to make students compassionate, caring, hard worker, honest, trustworthy and good citizens of Pakistan.
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