Perception of Values in Prospective Teachers

Prospective teachers are those teachers who are looking towards the future. Prospective teachers are to be competent in the profession and losing belief in the profession. Prospective teachers are able to incorporate in their teaching cross-circular dimensions and themes, including environmental education. There is constant change in the society in respect to values, norms, ideals as well as attitudes of the individual which make the society more complex and integrated. Values are important because every human action is the reflection of an individual value and every human institution is the outgrowth of social values. Generally speaking, values are the norms of behavior which have been evolved during the course of time in the social, moral and spiritual fields. Values are conscious and unconscious preferences, accepted by the majority of members of the socially regulated. The purpose of this study was to explore the level of perception of values of prospective teachers of colleges of education and find out the differences, if any, in terms of gender, locality of colleges and nature of colleges in their perception of values. A sample of 40 prospective teachers was collected from different colleges located in rural and urban areas of Mohali District of Punjab state. The t-test and ANOVA test were used for analyzing the data. The prospective teachers of town are better in neighbourly values than the prospective teachers of village. The prospective teachers of village are better in perception of social values than the prospective teachers of town.