IGNOU launches value education programme for teachers

Updated on: Wednesday, September 28, 2011

IGNOU launched a "value education" course which will help teachers, NGO and corporate professionals to integrate values in teaching and learning process.

The Certificate Programme in Value Education (CPVE), to be offered from January 2012 session in distance mode, can be availed by anyone with plus two as minimum qualification.

The minimum time period to complete this programme is six months while maximum is two years, the university said.

"CPVE has been designed to inculcate the importance of value education in the teaching-learning process among teachers, graduates, NGOs and professionals from the corporate and other sectors of the civil society," said Dr Silima Nanda, Deputy Director (ID), IGNOU.

"This programme has an Activity Component which has to be completed by the learners before the Term End Exam," she said.

According to her, the target group for this course is mainly the teachers (mostly elementary) for integrating values in their transactional process of teaching and learning.

"It can also be offered to NGOs, Government employees, students, professionals and other workers of the civil society organisation," she added.

IGNOU launches value education programme for teachers

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