Paper I: Foundations of Education
Philosophy of Education ‐ Individual & Social Aims of Education, Idealism, Realism & Pragmatism, Naturalism Value & Education.
Sociology of Education ‐ Education as an instrument of social Change & modernization, culture and education, Group dynamics, Organisational behaviour & its control.
Psychology of Education ‐ Social, emotional and intellectual development, Heredity and environment, Factors affecting learning, Transfer of learning, Learning and Motivation, Pavlov’s & Skinner’s theories of Learning, Carl Rogers’ and Eysenck’s theories of personality, Information Processing Theory & Memory processing , Emotional intelligence, Relationship between Intelligence & Creativity. Development Creativity Through Brainstorming.
Educational thought ‐ Bertand Russell, John Dewey, M.K. Gandhi and Rabindra Nath Tagore.
Economics of Education ‐ Education and economic development, Planning And financing of education.
Constitutional Provisions relating to Education
Paper II : Applied Education
Educational Technology ‐ Hardware, software in Education and Systems Approach to education, Programmed learning, Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI)
Pedagogy ‐ Information processing models of Teaching, Micro teaching, Methods and Techniques of teaching
Educational Management ‐ Centralized and Decentralized educational administration, Management of Teaching learning process (Planning, organizing, leading and controlling)
Curriculum ‐ Principles of Curriculum construction, Process of Curriculum Development.
Guidance & Counselling ‐ Need & Importance of Educational & Vocational & Personal guidance, Cumulative Record Cards (CRC), Techniques of Counselling.
Educational Testing & Statistics ‐ Types of Tests, Graphical representation of data, Measures of Central Tendency, dispersion and association (rank correlation).
Educational system in Meghalaya ‐ Problems and issues of Education in Meghalaya.