Values and Gratitude Education and Schooling in Nepal

This book explores contemporary issues and challenges in values education in Nepal, with a particular focus on gratitude education as a culturally and spiritually grounded approach to fostering character development, ethical behaviour, and holistic learning. Drawing on the perspectives and experiences of Nepalese educators, it examines how gratitude can contribute to teaching, learning, school culture, and educational transformation within Nepalese school settings. A distinctive contribution of the book is its exploration of educators’ conceptualisations of gratitude, foregrounding their voices and professional experiences as valuable sources of educational knowledge. Through this lens, the book develops and presents a comprehensive gratitude education framework, GRinEd, that articulates the purposes, principles, goals, and pedagogical approaches associated with cultivating gratitude in schools. The framework positions gratitude as a transformative educational value that supports the development of responsible, compassionate, and socially engaged individuals. The book also makes a significant theoretical contribution by offering a conceptual framework that bridges Nepalese educational traditions with broader international scholarship on values education, character education, and wellbeing. In doing so, it provides new insights into the role of gratitude as both a personal virtue and a collective educational resource. This book serves as a testimonial to broader learning communities and offers a crucial source of insight, knowledge and information, contributing helpful directions to introduce, integrate and enact values education in schools. Serving as a valuable resource for researchers, educators, teacher educators, school leaders, policymakers, and students, this book offers practical and theoretical guidance for introducing, integrating, and enacting values education in schools. It contributes to ongoing conversations about how educational systems can nurture human flourishing, social responsibility, and ethical citizenship in an increasingly complex and interconnected world.