Value Education through Indian Animation Stories and its Impact on Life Skills and Gender Equity of School going Adolescents of other Backward Classes

Abstract

The school going OBC adolescent students face problems due to our traditional caste system. The impact of caste based discrimination is seen in poor academic achievements and performances along with psychological worry and problems. They score poor marks and most of them have emotional problems such as tension, frustration, mental block, inferiority feelings and distortion of self identity and self esteem which poses threat to their mental health. They need guidance which will help them in developing their personality, self awareness, empathy, coping with strong emotions. The value education is the best way to shape their personality and to overcome the problems they face in getting school education. Value education is important at every point of life. In present paper two dimensions of value education has been chosen viz. life skills and gender equity. Nowadays animation is widely used in school to teach all the subjects. Therefore animated movies were taken to teach value education as innovative approach to study its impact on OBC adolescents. Present paper describes use of animated stories in value education and its impact on school going OBC adolescents in matter of their life skill and gender equity. Findings of the study showed positive impact of animated stories on OBC adolescent’s life skills and understanding of gender equity.

Keywords: Value education, Indian animation stories, Other backward class, Adolescent, Life skills, and Gender equity.