Effect of Self-Instructional Module on Knowledge of Peace Values in Secondary School Students of Jammu Division

Abstract

The state of Jammu and Kashmir is divisible into three regions viz. Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, each having distinct features of its own. Every region has its own culture, has its own social set up. Despite of cultural diversity, the state of Jammu and Kashmir comprises a unified integrated culture. Although, some elements of conflict always disturbing the social cohesion. The main root cause of conflict in the state of Jammu and Kashmir is always influenced by internal as well as external factors. This is a major threat to the peace of the state. Schools remain shutting down for so many days during the peak of insurgency.  It resulted in the adverse impact on the education sector also as violent activities in the state have disturbed the education of the children of the state. So, keeping in view the prevailing situations in the state, the investigator has made an attempt to promote a dialogue of peace and to know whether the intervention of any such programme could bring out a change in the children in their perspectives of seeing the things. Thus, for this purpose the investigator prepared the Self Instructional Module and  conducted an experiment to know the effectiveness of the Self Instructional Module (SIM) in inculcating peace values among the children of the state and also presented the results of the same in the present paper.