1Research Scholar, Faculty of Education (Kamachchha), BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India; Contact No.: +91 9451771774; E-mail: dheerajpandey59@gmail.com;
2Professor, Faculty of Education (Kamachha), BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India; Contact No.: +91-0542-2361189; Email: rpshukla1@gmail.com
Online published on 8 May, 2017.
In the blind race of materialism, we are becoming more and more violent losing our human qualities with day by day and the early adolescents are more prone to being violent and aggressive. In this task well-planned wholesome education can only play crucial role in transforming the violent human nature and attitudes into humane and peaceful by nurturing moral and human values among them. This paper discusses in detail about the objective to study the impact of peace module on adolescents ’knowledge for living in harmony in relation to their personal variables e.g. (a.) Sex; (b.) Area; (c.) Socio-economic Status (SES). In order to investigate, the researcher had selected 126 adolescents of 8th grade as a sample through Multi Stage Random Sampling and conducted an experiment using Pretest-Posttest Equivalent Groups Design. Further, he employed Knowledge Test for School Students (KTSS) for data collection and four way ANCOVA for analyzing the data. The main findings of the study were: (a.) implementation of peace module (IPM) influenced significantly to the knowledge of adolescents for living in harmony; (b.) it influenced more positively to the adolescents pertaining to female group in comparison to their male counterparts; (c.) IPM & sex; and IPM & SES differences are interacting significantly for the knowledge of adolescents for living in harmony
Peace Module, Adolescents, Knowledge for Living in Harmony
