Exploring the Dynamic Nexus between Value Based Education and Holistic Community Development : A Model Based Approach

Education is influential means of bringing progressive development in human behavior. Value-based education is one of the means for developing a sense of humanism and deep concern for the society and the nation. An individual can build-up moral, ethical, spiritual, and social dimensions of an individual which are often undermined informal education through value-based education. Educators have envisioned education for the liberation of the human mind, development of consciousness and modernization of society. New education system should essentially achieve all these factors and able to meet new challenges whereas on the other hand, community-based development need support and coalition of interest and thoughts of individual, groups and representatives. Community the building includes a variety of approaches related to community economic development and community organization. Quality education aims towards empowerment of the individuals and assumes responsibility to build a sustainable future. Value-based education gives a direction to an individual which is a social framework ethically acceptable, economically viable, ecologically justifiable, socially responsible and universally accessible. Therefore, the balance between technology and human values is required for holistic community development. Value-based education is need of the day for transforming an individual into holistic personality. The present paper is an attempt to explore the role of value-based education in holistic community development. The linkages of value-based education with the holistic community development is visualized with the the help of system dynamics approach which is an integration of causal modelling and stock-flow modelling