PAPER-I
PART A
FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGY
Unit I Psychological Foundation of Education:
Definition of Psychology, relationship between Psychology and Education, nature, scope and methods of Educational Psychology. Physiological basis of human/mental life, functions of the human nervous system and the endocrine system. Meaning of development, areas of development, fundamentals of Piagetian Development Psychology. Concept and theories of Individual differences, theories of intelligence, creativity. Mental health and mental hygiene, Personality-Freudian Theory of personality. Learning; theories, factors affecting learning. Theories of learning, transfer of learning.
Adolescence-psychological characteristics and problems of adolescents.
Unit II Philosophical Foundations of Education:
Concept and scope of Education, aims of Education, functions of Education. Role of Philosophy in Education -(a) Relationship between Education and Philosophy, (b) Some major schools of Philosophy: Idealism, Naturalism, Realism and Pragmatism-their contribution to present day education, (c) Emergence of educational thoughts through the works of great educatorsM.K. Gandhi, Rousseau, Froebel, Dewey and Tagore (Relevance of each philosophy in Education). Freedom and discipline. Components of education and their mutual relationship.
Unit III Sociological Foundation of Education:
Nature and scope of Educational Sociology. Education as an instrument of social change. Social Groups. Culture-concept and components of culture.
Current social problems relating to Education in India.
Unit IV Pedagogy:
Science of teaching- relations between teaching and learning. Factors affecting teaching, levels of teaching, general principles of teaching, maxims of teaching. Observations and classroom behaviour: Flander’s Interaction Analysis, characteristics of good teacher behaviour, difference between traditional and micro-teaching. Factors affecting perception, attention and attitude. Teaching methods, functions of a teacher.
PART B
DEVELOPMENT, ISSUES AND TRENDS IN INDIAN EDUCATION
Unit I Development of Education in Ancient and Medieval India:
Education in Ancient India: Vedic and Brahmanic Period, Buddhist Education. Education in Medieval India
Unit II Development of Education in British India and Independent India:
Education in British India, Indigenous Education in India at the beginning of the 18th century. Growth of modern systems of education up to 1947 AD. The Charter Act 1813, Downward Filtration Theory, Adam’s Report 1829, Macaulay’s Minutes 1935, Wood’s Education Despatch 1854, Hunter Commission 1882, Lord Curzon’s Policy 1902 (University Education Commission of 1902), Movement for Compulsory Education -Gokhale’s Bill 1913 ( Govt. of India Resolution on Educational Policy 1913), Sadler’s
Commission 1917 (Calcutta University Education Commission 1917), Hartog Committee Report 1929. Development of Indian Education during the postindependence period with special reference to major recommendations of University Education Commission 1948-49, Secondary Education Commission 1952-53, Kothari Education Commission 1964-66, National Policy on Education 1986 and its revised formulation of 1992.
Unit III Issues in India Education:
Aims and objectives of Elementary Education. Aims and objectives of Secondary Education, general and vocational education, role of DIET, NCERT, SCERT, NIEPA, CBSE, etc. Higher Education-general and technical. Role of UGC, AIU, AICTE, ICSSR, CSIR, ICAR, NCTE. Types of Universities and equivalent institutes of higher learning.
Unit IV Modern Trends in Indian Education:
Non- formal education, adult education. National Adult Education Programme (NAEP-1978), Mass Programme for Functional Literacy (MPFL-1986), National Literacy Mission (NOM-1988), Total Literacy Campaign (TCL), Post Literacy Campaign (PLC), Jana Shikshan Nilyan (JSN). Continuing Education, uses of mass-media in non-formal and continuing education. Population education, sex education, value oriented education, work experience & SUPW, environmental education, women empowerment through education, education of minority communities.
PAPER-II
PART A
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, STATISTICS AND EVALUATION IN EDUCATION
Unit I Fundamentals of Educational Research :
Concept, meaning and nature of educational research, types of research.
Hypothesis -concept and types, characteristics of a good hypothesis.
Unit II Conduct of Educational Research:
Sampling-concept and sampling designs/techniques, tools of data collection, report writing.
Unit III Statistics in Education:
Meaning, nature, scope and significance of educational statistics, sources and use of educational statistics. Difference between statistics and parameter, significance of statistics. Measures of central tendency, measures of variability, normal distribution- normal probability curve. Concept of variable, types of data, the need and uses of graphical presentation of data, bivariate distribution.
Unit IV Evaluation in Education:
Meaning and nature of educational measurement, evaluation in education.
General principles of test construction and standardization.
PART B
EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT, TECHNOLOGY, GUIDANCE AND CURRICULUM
Unit I Educational Management:
Concept, meaning, nature, need and scope of educational management. Types of educational management. Concept of financial management, managerial behaviour, educational Planning.
Unit II Educational Technology:
Concept and scope of educational technology, communication process.
Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives. System approach in instructional system designing, programmed learning. Concept and nature of personalized system of instruction.
Unit III Educational Guidance:
The concept of guidance, vocational guidance, educational guidance, counselling.
Unit IV Curriculum Construction:
Curriculum-concept and nature, curriculum construction, curriculum development, curriculum designs.
