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2.4.2. Human Realities and Essentialities of Complementarities
of Values and Skills

Everyone wants to be prosperous and happy in life and so is true for professionals including
teachers. It is more important for professionals to remain happy since for their effectiveness,
peace of mind is utmost necessary. However, it is difficult for most of the people to be
in a perpetual state of happiness as nearly all people have spells of unhappiness in their
lives due to some problematic circumstances. But with efforts a mind can be trained to
remain happy in most of the situations. Developing this state of mind requires, developing
harmony within self and with family, society and nature. Moreover, to avoid the negative
emotions such as greed, envy, revenge and fear to creep into the mind, professionals are
required to imbibe in themselves the concept of co-existence, as it is beneficial for all, ‘to
live and let live’. In other words, if everyone tries for happiness not only for self, but also,
for others, it will be easier to achieve the state of perpetual happiness for every individual
as all are interdependent on each other and that is the philosophy of Sarvejana Sukhino
Bhavantu., which is discussed in this unit.

Key Topics: Human Aspirations - Perpetual Happiness and Prosperity - Need for values
and skills - Harmony with self, within family, with society and with nature - Concept of co-
existence- Interconnectedness and mutual fulfillment- Developing a holistic perception -
Sarvejana Sukhino Bhavantu.

2.4.3. Professional Values. Attitudes and Ethics

This unit explains the meaning of values, attitudes and ethics, and techniques for developing
values. Importance of self exploration for developing a good value system is also discussed.
Professional values and ethics for technical teachers are emphasized. Most professionals
face ethical conflict in their lives, approaches for resolving such conflicts are explained
with the help of case studies. Academic ethics and code of conduct for higher education
teachers are described in brief. In last lesson of this unit role of professionals societies in
ensuring the ethical behaviour by their fellows is explained.

Key Topics: Values, attitudes and ethics – Type of values and attitudes and their development–
Self exploration for value education – Professional values and ethics for technical teachers
– Resolving the ethical conflict – Case studies -Code of Conduct for Academics - Roles of
Professional Societies.

2.4.4. Sustainable Development

Large scale development is essential for poverty alleviation, especially in developing
countries such as India. However, development has its impact on all the five elements
of nature i.e. Earth, Water, Air, Fire (Energy) and Space. This impact is visible in form of
pollution or/and scarcity of all these panch tatavas, depletion of natural resources and
climate change. In this scenario, the concept of sustainable development can only fulfill to
some extent both of the conflicting aspirations of ‘poverty alleviation’ and ‘environment
protection’. This unit discusses all these issues in brief so that the teachers are sensitized
towards these issues and they in turn can sensitize UG students who would be the
professionals of tomorrow.

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