School Education in India : Quality Improvement Techniques

Contents: Preface. I. School education: issues and concerns: 1. Education of the urban disadvantaged/D. Sarangi and Manoranjan Pradhan. 2. Problems of learners of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)/P.K. Sahoo and Dinesh Kumar. 3. Early stage of schooling: need for specialization/Ashutosh Biswal and Jayshree Das. 4. Organizational climate for school improvement/Priya Nair and Mario Xavier. 5. Women rights education for girls at secondary school stage/Namita Sahoo and B.C. Das. 6. Role of non-verbal communication in improving quality of teaching and learning/Sona Ahuja. 7. Enhancing quality of school education through counselling and inclusive schooling/Sudipta Roy and Priyanka Beharani. 8. Changing quality paradigm in languages/R.S. Mani. 9. Instructional supervision for quality education/Rina Choudhary. 10. Education for knowledge based society/Anjali Khirwadkar. 11. Open the black box/Vandana Talegaonkar and Archana Tomar. 12. Enhancing quality of elementary education/Sejal Dave and Pallavi D. Khedkar. 13. School education and corporal punishment/M. Rajendran. 14. Problem of mental health and erosion of values among students/Bharti Rathore. 15. Reconstructing school curriculum/Jignasa Prajapati and Lakshmi Shah. 16. Quality concerns in school education/Bharat K. Vaya and Om Prakash Purohit. 17. Some student teacher related issues in practical learning situation/Anitha D. Shetty. II. Innovations in school education: 18. Quality enhancement in secondary teaching through students\' feedback/S. Kumar, R.C. Patel and A. Ramachary. 19. Value inculcation in teaching of mathematics/Sujata Srivastava and Vishal Mohandas. 20. Acquisition of science process skills in constructivist science classroom/S.C. Panigrahi, N. Ramkumar and M. Rajendran. 21. Role of technology in constructivist classrooms/Mandira Sikdar and Leena Bhojwani. 22. Programme for enhancing achievement of class X students in Mathematics/R.G. Kothari and Pradeep Patel. 23. Entrepreneurial education/Sarita Agrawal and Jyoti Achanta. 24. Academic achievements of tribal students of Ashram Schools in Surat/Preety Chowdhary. 25. Innovation and change in school education/Priyadarshini S. Kelkar. III. Alternative schooling in education: 26. Investigatory projects in educational endeavours at different levels/A. Ramachary. 27. Grassroot innovations for quality improvement at primary level/Satish Pathak and Sanjay Shah. 28. Deep approach of learning/Mahesh Narayan Dixit. 29. Innovations in school education/Lakshmi Venugopal and Indu Kataria. 30. A study of Navprerna as an alternative school/R.L. Madhavi and M. Rajendran. 31. Relevance of alternative schooling/Geetha Dinkar. Index.

"Since Independence in 1947, there has been an enormous expansion of school education in India. The school segment has adopted and integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to improve quality and productivity in education. However, the existing inequalities prevailing in school education system have led to digital divide. Other problems and challenges facing the system include outdated curriculum, pedagogy, lack of infrastructure, dropouts, teachers absenteeism, unequal access, lax administration and slow speed of vocationalization of education.

This volume contains 31 papers, authored by the scholars in the field of education, which focus on various dimensions of school education in India. It is designed to act as a reference book for students of Bachelors in Education (B.Ed.), Masters in Education (M.Ed), Post-graduate diploma in education, Masters in Educational management and other related courses. The contents of this volume would also give a deep insight to school teachers, school principals, college and university teachers, educational administrators, policy-makers, policy-planners, scholars, academicians, trainers, field workers and all those who are related to the spread and improvement in educational standards.

The volume is organized into 3 theme parts, each part containing papers related to a particular theme."