VALUE CRISIS AND EDUCATION- A CASE STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP WITH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS OF ASSAM .

Abstract

Abstract- Values are the beliefs about what is right, what is wrong and what is important in life. There is a big gap between preaching and practicing of what one’s believes or what one says. We are living in a world of dilemma where all the societies are facing that their present generation has fallen in the clasp of eroding values such as alcoholic, drug abuse, corruption, mental illness, stress, crime, arrogance, procrastination, lustful, dishonesty, insincerity, lack of punctuality, disrespect for teachers, parents and elders, disregard for work culture and entrepreneurial activities, more dependent on others, resulting indiscipline at everywhere, gun-culture, greed for earning money and wealth by without efforts, everything want by easy trading and foul means. Value crisis is omnipresent in everywhere of modern-day-world in the form of acceptance of corrupt practices and unethical activates. Only value oriented education can minimize these kinds of problems by change in attitude, nature, vision, thought, character and conduct of the students. Therefore it is very important to introduce value education from the very beginning of our education system from primary to higher. Today’s students are the citizens of tomorrow. Education without values is waste of money, energy and time. True education trains the head for the knowledge, the heart for the feelings and the hands for the action. Education of elementary students is very crucial and lasting forever.  It is the most important period of human life. This stage is the foundation pillar of life. It is the best time to shape the child in desired way. Now a day human belief in religion has come down. Religion is no longer to contribute to the inculcation of moral values. As such to instill certain values in children collective efforts should be made through education. Academic achievement of the students depends upon the various factors. Value is one of such factor that a set of rules and goals guide the conduct and judgments of the students. In this juncture the present study tries to study the value crisis and education and its relation with academic achievement of the elementary stage students. For this proposed study the researcher had done case study at six elementary school three from Lakhimpur and three from Dhemaji distric of Assam. As sample data are collected from 60 students. Sample is selected on the basis of purposive sampling technique. For data collection “Value measuring Questionnaire” developed by Pr. Paramananda Singh and Lal Dhari Yadav is used. Data analysis is done by the statistical technique Mean, Standard Deviation, T-score and ANOVAs.

Keywords- Value crisis, education, elementary stage, academic achievement, citizen