Dynamics of Educational Thoughts and Practices

Contents: Preface. 1. Concept, meaning, nature and scope of education. 2. Aims of education (individual and social). 3. Aims and objectives of education at different levels. 4. Process of education. 5. Education in the ancient India. 6. The concepts of Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha in the ancient educational heritage of India. 7. Education in medieval India: indigenous and Islamic education. 8. Education in British India: educational activities of Christian missionaries. 9. Macaulay’s minutes on education policy. 10. The wood’s Despatch on education. 11. The Hartog Committee Report on education. 12. The Basic Education Movement. 13. National Education Movement before independence. 14. National Education Movement after independence. 15. Development of the national system of education. 16. Basic philosophies of education. 17. Idealism, naturalism and pragmatism. 18. Realism in education. 19. Eclecticism in education. 20. Mahatma Gandhi as an educationist. 21. Rabindranath as an educationist. 22. Educational philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. 23. Swami Vivekananda as an educationist. 24. Education as an instrument of social change: factors and agents of social change. 25. Education and politics. 26. Education and new social order. 27. School and classroom as social systems. 28. School-community relation. 29. Education as an instrument of economic change and human resource development. 30. Education and rural development. 31. Education for total national development. 32. Democracy and citizenship education. 33. Education for socialism. 34. Education for national and emotional integration. 35. Education for international understanding. 36. Education for secularism. 37. Education for peace and harmony. 38. Curriculum; meaning, principles and need for its construction. 39. Curriculum: process and types. 40. Trends in the change of curriculum since independence: with reference to Orissa. 41. Fundamentals of teaching practices. 42. General maxims of teaching. 43. Herbaritan steps in teaching. 44. Various approaches to teaching. 45. Kindergarten method/system. 46. Montessori system: teaching through didactic apparatus.