I am am happy to invite you, again, for the FDP on “Human Values and
Professional Ethics” from 22nd June to 29th June, 2016 at Indian Institute
of Technology, Kanpur which is being run as a regular course in all
AKTUaffiliated institutions. The program starts 22nd 10 am sharp and ends
on 29th by 5 pm.

This workshop is particularly relevant for educators who are interested in
holistic education.

The need for integrating Human Values in the formal education system has
been felt for a long time. This has also been repeatedly emphasized by all
commissions and expert committees on education. While most reputed
Educational Institutes have started working on the same, its is equally
important to equip and impregnate the practicing professionals in various
fields, be it Engineering or General Administration with a high degree of
professional ethics and human values to help them to make their working
more Humane and intrinsically just.

While the need has been acutely felt, the question of ‘how to go about it’
has not been adequately answered. We have taken the initiatives conducted
experiments in this direction during past 2-3 decades at a few
institutions (e.g. IIT Delhi, IIM Calcutta, BHU etc.), and more recently,
intensive efforts at IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur, NIT Raipur etc. These
long drawn efforts have finally resulted in the development of an
effective methodology, resource material, orientation program and a
resource team to introduce Human Values and Professional Ethics
impregnation in technical and other organizations.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the then president of India, has also mentioned on the
eve of Independence Day 14th Aug 2006, the importance of Value Education
and the work done by this team.

Knowing your interest in Value Education, we invite you for the workshop.
I do hope to hear from you soon, confirming your participation, so that we
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can make the necessary arrangements.

You may write to me or call me directly about your
registration/confirmation of participation.

Regards
Bhanu Pratap Singh
Mobile: +91 9889498839

About the Orientation Program
The subject that deals with what is of value, or what is valuable to a
human being is called “value impregnation”. This subject focuses on what a
human being is, what is purposeful and meaningful for him/her – what is
the aim of human being and one’s life and how one can meet this aim, this
purpose. This elaborates on what role he/she has to play as responsible
human being at the level of individual, family, society and nature. With
this clarity, one is able to see the meaning in life, purpose in life and
is committed to fulfill that meaning, that purpose. This clarity and the
satisfaction obtained out of the fulfillment of this purpose, gives one a
feeling of self confidence. This instills confidence in their inner
strengths. The students need to have this confidence in order to be able
to proactively set their own goals. If the goal is set proactively (and
not by default ‘peer’ pressure) the motivation comes from within and the
rest follows- in terms of his commitment, untiring effort leading to
success in achieving his aim, and his purpose of life.

Values thus provide the basis for all our actions and activities. Apart
from skill development, education needs to focus on value-education. This
needs to be introduced in our school education as well as higher
education. Such value-based education can prepare students to live in
harmony with other human beings and nature – this can provide a way out of
the current morass that the world is in.

Dr. Abdul Kalam spoke about this topic in his address to the nation on the
eve of the Independence Day (15th August) 2006:
“… being practiced by Prof Ganesh Bagaria, … Prof Rajeev Sangal… and their
teams … [it] is a ‘teachable human value based skill’… This process of
imparting self-knowledge would promote a learning atmosphere, where this
whole movement of inquiry into knowledge, into oneself, into the
possibility of something beyond knowledge would bring about naturally a
psychological revolution.. From this comes inevitably a totally different
order in human relationship and therefore society as a whole. The
intelligent understanding of this process itself can bring about a
profound change in the consciousness of mankind…” Full text of Dr Kalam’s
speech is at
https://www.indianembassy.ru/docs-htm/en/en_hp_win_official_direct_t075.htm

At the root is holistic, and all encompassing detailed view of reality at
every level of existence, from Individual to Family, Society and
Nature/Existence – that the existence is innately co-existence (harmony,
order) and not a chaos or disorder; and Man just needs to understand this
co-existence and align with the innate order in the existence. With such a
holistic viewpoint, one can rightly place existing assumptions and inputs.
This knowledge is inherently self liberating, empowering and can lead to
Human Conduct, Education, Constitution and Order (Manaviya Acharan,
Shiksha, Samvidhan and Vyawastha) in the society.

Effective and widely acceptable guidelines for impregnating values have
been drawn up to help decide what would qualify as an acceptable study on
value education:
Universal – Whatever is studied as ‘impregnating value’ needs to be
universally applicable to all human beings and be true at all times and
all places. In addition, it should not depend on sect, creed, nationality
and gender etc. So it deals with universal human values

Rational – It has to be amenable to reasoning and not based on dogmas or
blind beliefs. It cannot be a set of sermons or Do’s and Don’ts

Natural and Verifiable – We want to study something that is natural to us.
Being natural means, it has to be acceptable in a natural manner. When we
live on the basis of such values that are natural to us, it leads to
fulfillment i.e. it leads to our happiness, it is conducive to other
people we interact with, and the interaction with nature is mutually
enriching. We also want to verify these values ourselves, i.e. we don’t
want to assume something just because something is stated, rather, each
one of us will want to verify these to find out whether they are true for
us. This can be done by both checking for validity within ourselves, as
well as something which we can implement in our living and observe its
outcome

All encompassing – Value impregnation is not merely an academic exercise.
It is aimed at transforming our consciousness and living. Hence, it has to
permeate into all dimensions of our living, namely, thought, behaviour,
work and understanding/realization; as well as all levels namely
individual, family, society and nature

Leading to harmony – Finally, value impregnation has to enable us to be in
harmony within and in harmony with others. Hence, when we live on the
basis of these values, we start understanding that it will lead to harmony
in us and harmony in our interactions with other humans and the rest of
nature. That is it leads to human conduct

The workshop is conducted as a dialog, free from any value prescriptions
or do’s and don’ts. Proposals about universal principles of life are
placed for evaluation and discussion at one’s own right.

Regards,
Value Education Cell,
AKTU Lucknow.