Studies In School Education

School Education is the foundation of the entire educational infrastructure. It is imperative that its strength and stamina must determine the quality and quantity of educational panorama in the country. It is, therefore, felt essential to study various aspects of school education in order to know the status quo, identify the problems faced and conduct experiments for improving the existing systems and schemes in execution. In this book as many as 27 studies have found place to give an idea about the status, issues and concerns in the field of School Education. The studies have been classified into four categories, such as: (i) Democracy, Sociology and Economics of Education (ii) Rural, Tribal and Minorities Development in Education (iii) Nutrition, Creativity and Methods of Teaching (iv) Learning through Media These studies are necessary for creating adequate awareness and interest, imparting requisite psychomotor skills, developing positive attitudes and so on. Such studies would throw light on the dark corridors of our teaching-learning system and activate the idle and inert agencies and motivate the sincere workers in the field of school education.
About Author :
Prof. Jagannath Mohanty after a distinguished academic career in India had been to United Kingdom for higher education and training-once in 1971-1972 in the University of London under the Commonwealth Teachers' Training British Council Media Department, London under the Commonwealth Education Fellowship. He was one of the pioneering educational technology experts remaining in charge of implementing educational technology project from its very inception in 1975-76. he was in charge of the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) in Orissa. He is an eminent author having 30 and 120 titles to his credit respectively. Especially he is a prolific writer of books for children and has received 2 National Awards and 5 State Government and Sahitya Academy Awards in this field. Dr. Mohanty has varied experiences at all stages of education-primary, secondary, higher and teacher education. He was a Professor of Education, Principal of Institute of Advance Study in Education and Director, Academic Staff College, Utkal University. He was the President of the state chapter of Indian Association for Educational Technology, Chancellor of State Chapter of International Association of Educators for World Peace, President of the State branch of Indian Association of Pre-school Education, President of Orissa Children's Literature Academy and President of Rajadhani Sishu Sahitya Sansad, Bhubaneswar. He is the Executive and Chairman of the MBMC Trust. The author has been awarded Emeritus Fellowship by the UGC, New Delhi.
Contents :
Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Editorial Notes PART I DEMOCRACY, SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION 1. Impact of Democracy on Primary Education in India with Special Reference to Orissa 2. Socio-economics Background of the Students Studying in the High Schools of Bhubaneswar 3. The Relationship between Socio-economic Status and Achievement of Class IX Students 4. Early Childhood Education (ECE) for Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE) 5. An Investigation into the Problems and Prospects of School Community Cooperative for Democratisation and Improvement of Education PART II RURAL, TRIBAL AND MINORITIES DEVELOPMENT IN EDUCATION 6. An Evaluative Study of Navodaya Vidyalayas in Haryana 7. Problems of Tribal Education in the Context of National Policy of Education, 1986 8. Research in Education of Minorities in India: Gaps and Priorities 9. Sustainable Solutions of Environmental Problems Through Community-based Education: Case Study of a Tribal Village 10. Family Life Values in the Tribal Communities: An Ethnographic Case Study of the Paraja 11. Anthropometric Status of Child Labourers PART III NUTRITION, CREATIVITY AND METHODS OF TEACHING 12. Nutritional Status and Educational Achievement 13. Creativity: A Study of Children with Different Disabilities 14. Effect of Creative Method of Teaching English (CMTE) on Development of Creativity and Achievement-An Experiment on Secondary School Students 15. Effect of Creative Method of Teaching English on Development of Creative Thinking of Secondary School Students 16. Study of the Efficacy of the Field Trip in the Teaching of Social Studies in Primary Schools 17. Science Education Programme in Secondary Schools 18. Multi-grade Learning: An Innovation in Primary Level Education 19. Effect of Super Learning Technique (SLT) on Development of Creative Thinking PART IV LEARNING THROUGH MEDIA 20. A Study of the Educational Implications of Community Television Programmes 21. The Effect of Radio Interventions on the Language and Cognitive Development of Pre-School Children 22. Study of the Effectiveness of Educational TV Programmes for Primary Schools 23. An Evaluative Study of ETV Programmes Under INSAT 24. Educational Television Programmes for the Age-group 9-11 Years: An Appraisal 25. Impact of SITE on Attendance and Enrolment in Primary Schools Bibliography Index