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Value Education through Social Media & Entertainment

“Values are the deeply held beliefs that drive and direct your behaviour." – Glenn C. Stewart             Our motherland India is very well known for its ancient and rich culture, heritage and age old traditions. Our ancestors have always believed in and passed on the unique knowledge and values through the generations.         Today, India is rapidly changing. Due to globalisation and the technological advancements, the atmosphere here is becoming more competitive and challenging day by day.   I feel that in these changing times and in our busy lives, somewhere we are losing touch with our culture, traditions, our morals and values. We have been so deeply immersed in our own problems that our courteous and righteous ways of living are fading away and we strive to focus only on our own interests and our own needs. In today’s time, society is in constant need of value education and moral building, to inculcate good morals and values in our future citizens.             Childre
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Skill developments in Pre - schoolers : Why Pre - primary students should not write in ruled notebooks.

  Topic -    Why Pre - primary children should do pattern writing or alphabet writing using red and blue lines (ruled notebooks). Why shouldn’t they be free to draw / write / reproduce / express what they have learnt without having any barriers or restrictions? I am an educationalist with 6 years work experience with the Pre-primary students. This is my concern related to the skill developments in preschoolers which I would like to share.  In India, since the Vedic period, education has always played a very important role in people’s life. During that period, the objective of education was not only to pass on the knowledge to younger people generations, but to enable the student to learn life skills and develop one's wholesome personality. After we got our independence, over the years, the original purpose of education was lost. It became a mere rat race for getting a higher percentage and a cut-throat competition for admissions in better schools/ colleges. With the recent National
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