Now days there is great deterioration in our ethical standards, loss of moral and social values resulting in great loss to families, society, nation and ultimately the entire world. The Constitution of India is the great source of human values and it emphasizes on promoting humanism through its legislative, executive and judiciary institutions. Education as supposed to be a powerful instrument of social change, has to be restructured and reoriented to promote the human values as enunciated in the Constitution of India, because the obvious need of mankind is to live in harmony and to nurture...

This book highlights the phenomenon of Gender Gap in education (GGE) which is a pervasive problem of India as a whole and of Uttarakhand. Though there is a sharp increase in the share of girls who enrol in, attend, and complete various levels of schooling but the significant gender gap at elementary level of education still exists. This book highlights that one explanation for this gender gap is the degree of social exclusion within Uttarakhand, as indicated by psycho-social inertia and heterogeneity, which triggers both economic and psycho-social mechanisms to limit girls' schooling. This...

Human rights are fundamental and should be considered natural to all human beings. Man is born with some rights which exist whether or not they are recognized by society. All these rights and development are interrelated. Human right values are a growing subject and are tempted to bring into the text as much material as possible. Education being concerned with human beings and with their orientation for future does play a fundamental role. It provides individuals with the capacity and motivation to act. It becomes very important to understand right in the very beginning that the term human...