Comparison of change in identified human values in contemporary vernacular textbooks at elementary level before and after 2011

Human values are not only socially acceptable norms but also a standard behavior of human beings. For the school going students, value becomes an instrument to adjust with the environment. Through the vernacular textbooks, the cognitive domain is trained and enriched but there is a lot of scope to enrich the affective domain through the same. In 2011, there was a political change in West Bengal and as a result among the other things, changes also occurred in the school curriculum of West Bengal especially at elementary stages. So there are remarkable differences on the texts of vernacular books of two different decades before and after 2011. It is consequently the nature of text, values depict in it may be different or similar to some extent. The present study has been done with the objectives to compare the changes in identified human values in contemporary vernacular text books at elementary level before and after 2011. For this purpose sixteen (16) textbooks of elementary level were considered for the comparison. From class I to VIII, there were only eight vernacular textbooks before and after 2011. Before 2011, the books that have been considered as old textbooks and after 2011 the eight textbooks have been considered as new textbooks. After rigorous and methodological content analysis with coding procedure, it was observed that national consciousness and environmental awareness have been more emphasized in both texts of the decade. There are also some changes in values from old textbooks to new textbooks. The full paper discussed on the pattern in the changes of values in details.