Testimonials

State Level Documentation 2016-17 on VITAL submitted by SCERT, Chennai

SCERT Telangana, Hyderabad

Message from the Director of SCERT, New Delhi

Letter of appreciation from CBSE, New Delhi, for seminar held at National Annual Conference of Sahodaya at Kochi

Sri. P. Gopinathan Nair – Veteran Gandhian, Chairman -Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Kerala 'Education has to be based on Values. It should be possible to integrate Values with day-to- day teaching. Values and academics must not be separated. In other words, while teaching any subject, care should be taken to see that the Value dimension is properly integrated. This is what is proposed by the VITAL movement, initiated by Anandashram. Academics integrated with Values will prove to be meaningful and an effective methodology.'

Prof. Vishnu Narayanan Nambudiri – Renowned Educationist and Poet, Kerala. 'The program proposed by VITAL is an initiative to literally make the system of education and society more vibrant. For this educationists and teachers should coalesce the living Values with teaching. Values should not be separated from education. Values are not to be taught in class alone. In fact Values are imbibed by the younger generation from various segments of society including farmers, soldiers or administrators, anyone leading a Value based life.'

Prof. M. A. Khader – Former Curriculum Head NCERT, New Delhi 'Through VITAL, Anandashram is trying to reach out to the school sector – to children, teachers and teacher educators. It shows how concepts in each subject can be integrated with Values so they can practice and see in real life how Values function. What is significant in this effort is that they have chosen a path where content for science, math, language and social studies are integrated with the related Values. The creative aspect here is not merely the integration of content and Values, rather one may find an activity in the subject area implying that one finds content, plus its integration with Values. This is a departure from the past. The path VITAL has chosen, in my view is interesting because it is easy for the teacher to follow and the children to understand. The integration provides for development of Values in a more meaningful form. I think we need to support Anandashram’s effort.'

Dr. B. H Helen Joy, Principal, Govt. College of Teacher Education, Calicut 'This program conducted by the VITAL resource persons is a unique one. It focused on: what are values and what is the link between teaching and learning. Each one of our students has understood the significance of this whole exercise. Recently, academicians have been increasingly emphasizing value education. They strongly feel this is the only hope to revive future generation from further down fall. Surely, it is a good sign that some of the teachers are also positive about the possibilities of teaching and learning based on values. We can certainly say that VITAL team has succeeded 100% in this endeavor because they are going to complete their training programs in all the 4 government training colleges successfully. These 4 colleges’ principles represent 4 universities in Kerala and they are leading a group of teachers who design the curriculum for the B.Ed courses. We assure VITAL that we will strongly recommend to the authorities for such training programs wherever possible.'

NCERT - MHRD (Page 1), New Delhi

NCERT (Page 2), New Delhi

State Council of Educational Research and Training, Chennai