A case study on value crisis and education and their relationship with academic achievement of elementary students of Assam

Abstract

Value crisis in home, school and society has been seen at large at present time. The young generation has fallen into the clasp of eroding values such as arrogance, procrastination, lustfulness, dishonesty, insincerity, lack of punctuality, disrespect for teachers, parents and elders, disregard for work culture and entrepreneurial activities, and 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. Only value oriented education can minimize these kinds of problems by change in attitude, nature, vision, thought, character and conduct of the students. 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.