Paper II | History and Development of Indian Education Unit I - Education in Ancient and Medieval India.Characteristics of Gurukul, Matha & Vihar, Madarsas and Maktabs. Unit II - British Education in India – Oriental – Occidental Controversy, Macaulay’s Minutes. Wood’sDespatch, Hunter Commission, Gokhle- Bill, Sadler Commission, Wardha Scheme. Unit III - Main recommendations of Commissions in India – University Education Commission (1948-49).Secondary Education Commission (1952-53), Education and National Development; Report of the Education Commission (1964-1966), National Policy on Education 1986, Programme of Action, 1986, 1992. Unit IV - Problems of Pre-primary, Primary, Secondary, Higher, Women & Adult Education |
Paper I | Thought and Practices in Education
Unit I–Philosophy of Education Unit II–Study of Idealism, Realism, Naturalism & Pragmatism Unit III-Educational thought of Sri Aurobindo, Tagore, Gandhi & Vivekananda Unit IV-Educational Practices- Kindergarten, Montessori, Delton Plan and Project Method |
Paper II | Psychological Foundations of Education
Unit I - Relationship between Psychology & Education; Educational Psychology-concept, meaning and scope; Methods of Educational Psychology. Growth & Development- concept, factors influencing development; Heredity and Environment. Unit II - Learning-concept, factors affecting learning; Major learning theories; Studying learning through learning curve. Transfer of learning-concept, types and Applications in Education. Motivation-concept and types; Different ways of providing motivation in educational set up. Unit III - Intelligence – concept, meaning and development; Theoretical foundations of measurement of intelligence. Personality-concept, types and determinants, Personality development through education. Unit IV - Mental Health; meaning & ways of promoting mental health. Education of Exceptional Children- Gifted, Creative & Backward. |
Paper I | Measurement, Evaluation & Statistics in Education
Unit I 1. Measurement and Evaluation: Concept, need and relationship, Purpose of evaluation, Levels of measurement. 2. Techniques of Evaluation: Tests and scales-meaning, purpose, characteristics of good test, types (subjective, objective & projective). Unit II 1. Measurement of Intelligence: Intelligence Tests, Meaning types, Merits & demerits. 2. Problems in assessment of personality, subjective, objectives & projective techniques of personality assessment, their merits and limitations. Unit III 1. Statistics- Meaning, Use of Statistics in Education. 2. Classification and graphical presentation of data (Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Frequency curve and olive, pie diagram). 3. Measures of central tendency- mean median and mode-meaning, computation & use. Unit IV 1. Measures of variability – Range, Inter Quartile Range, Quartile Deviation, Mean Deviation & Standard Deviation- Meaning, Computation and use. 2. Correlation – Meaning and use, Spearman’s Rank difference correlation. 3. Normal probability curve- Concept & characteristics. |