*Ph. D. scholar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
**Research Supervisor, St. Xavier‘s College of Education, Palayamkottai, Tamil Nadu, India, Email id: amalsebastiansj@gmail.com
Online published on 23 March, 2018.
Values have an unavoidable place in the lives of people. Values are the axis on which the life revolves. The values can be acquired every moment and every day of our lives but it is mainly cultivated at home and at school and nourished throughout the education of a child in the school. Therefore it is evident that value based education is apparently the most important aspect of education along with the acquisition of knowledge in all other areas or subjects. Since the investigator works among the Oraon tribals she wants to investigate whether these tribal students have really acquired values or not. 998 high school students has been selected randomly as sample from Oraon tribal high school students of Jharkhand Academic Council Board Hindi medium high schools of Mahuadanr block, Latehar district. By self made tool the data had been collected and analyzed. The findings show that the level of value orientation and its dimensions of Oraon high school students is moderate. There is significant difference between male and female Oraon tribal high school students in value orientation and its dimensions Theoretical Value, Economical Value, Aesthetical Value, Social Value, Political Value, Religious Value, Personal Value, Health Value and Democratic Value.
Oraon Tribal, High School Students, Value Orientation