First Semester

BED-15101        Foundations of Education                                          M.Marks – 80

Unit-I                 Education &Philosophy

                                I)            Nature & Meaning ofEducation

                                ii)           Aims of Education –Individualand social.

                                Iii)          Name and Meaning of Philosophy.

                                Iv)          Relation between Philosophy& Education.         

Unit- II     Major Educational Philosophiesand Educational Thinkers                   Philosophies:

                                I)            Naturalism

                                ii)           Idealism

                                iii)          Pragmatism

                                TheseEducational Philosophies shall be discussed with special reference to Aims,                                            Curriculum, methods, Role ofTeacher & Concept of Discipline.

                                Thinkers:

                                i)            Mahatama Ghandhi:                      Basic Education

                                ii)           Swami Vivekananda:                      Man making Education

                                iii)          Froebel:                                               The Play way method

                                iv)          Montessori:                                       TheDidactic Apparatus

Unit-III      Education & the social Frame ofreference

                                i)            Education and Democracy  - Basic Principles of Democracy – Edu forDemocracy

                                ii)           Education & Socialism         - Meaning, Importance & Role ofEdu in achieving the                                                                                                        goals of Socialism,

                                iii)          Education & Secularism       - Meaning of Seularism

                                                                                                         Role of Education in multi religioussociety like                                                                                                                   India  

Unit- Iv      Culture & Social Change            

                                i)            Concept & Characteristicsof culture

                                ii)           Relationship betweenCulture  Education with special referenceto                                                                          conservative and creativityroles.

                                Iii)          Concept of Social change.

                                Iv)          Factors of Social Change.

                                V)          Roles of Education Vis-à-visSocial change.

References:

1.            Broudy H.            Building a Philosophy EducationS                             

BED-15102        Learning & Development

Unit- I                 Psychology & Educational Psychology

                                i)            Nature, Meaning and Scope ofPsychology

                                ii)           Nature & Meaning ofEducational Psychology.

                                Iii)          functions Educational Psychology

Unit –II                 Understanding Learner  (Stages of Human development.)

                                I)            Physical, Social, Emotional& Cognitive development Patterns.

                                Ii)           Stage – SpecificCharacteristics of Infancy & Childhood.

                                Iii)          Characteristics & Problemsof Adolescents

                                Iv)          Guidance & Counseling foradolescents.

Unit-III                Learning & Motivation

                                I)            Concept of Learning & itsnature.

                                Ii)           Factors of influencinglearning – Personal & Environmental.

                                Iii)           Motivation – Nature, Types: (Techniquesof Enhancing learner’s motivation)

                                Iv)          S-R Theory of Learning ( Thorndike)

                                V)          Operant Conditioning theory oflearning ( Skinner )

                                Vi)         Constructivism – Vygotsky

Unit –IV    Intelligence and Personality

                   Intelligence 

                                I)            Nature and Meaning.

                                Ii)           Determinants of personality–biological & socio-culture determinates.

                                Iii)          Theory of Multipleintelligences ( Howard Gardner )

                                Iv)          Structure of intellect(Guilford )

                                Personality

                                I)            Nature and meaning

                                Ii)           Determinates ofPersonality-biological & socio-culture determinants

                                Iii)          Trait-Theory of Personality ( Allport)

                                Iv)          Psycho analytic theory ofPersonality ( Freud )

                                                EducationalImplications of the above mentioned theories.

Reference:-

1.            Mayer, R.E ( 1987)          Educational Psychology; ACongnit ive Approach, Little Brownan and                                                                       Company,Boston.

BED-15103        Population and Gender Education                      M.Marks-80

Unit-I                  Population Education and population Dynamics

                                i)             Concep,t meaning an objectives

                                ii)           Need and importance

                                iii)          Distribution and density

                                iv)          Population composition – Age,sex, Rural/urban

                                v)           Factors affecting populationgrowth –fertility , mortality and migration.

Unit-II                 PopulationEducation in Schools.

                                i)             Scope of Population Education inSchool

                                ii)            Methods and approaches : inquiry approaches,observation ,self Study

                                                Discussionsassignments

                                iii)           Use of Mass Media – News Papers ,Radio,  TV , and A-V

Unit-III                 Geder Studies

                                i)             Concept , Need and scope of GenderStudies,

                                ii)            Gender Studies as an academicdiscipline

                                iii)           Gender , Economic and work participation

                                iv)           Gender ,Globalization and education

Unit-IV               Issues in Indian Women

                                I)             Women Education: Need , importanceand problems

                                ii             Co-education – ItsEducational implications

                                iii)           Education of Girl Child in India:Present status and challenges aheads

                                iv)           Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyaliya

                                v)            Girls Education in SSA and RMSA

BED-15104     Inclusive Education

Unit-I                  Exceptionality

                                i)             Meaning, Significance and Scope.

                                ii)            Levels of intervention: Preventiveremedial and Compensating,

                                iii)           Special Education: Meaning,significance and scopes

Unit-II                Categories of Special Children

                                I)             Physically challenged: Visually andHearing impaired.

                                Ii)            Mentally Retarded

                                iii)           Gifted

                ( With specialreference to causes, characteristics and education measures)

Unit-III                inclusive Education

                                I)             Historical background of inclusiveeducation

                                ii)            Principles of inclusion andnecessary resources.

                                iii)           Inclusion, integration andmainstreaming.

Unit-Iv               National initiative

                                I)             Integrated education for disabledchildren ( TEDC. 1974 )

                                II)            Rehabilitation Council of India(1992 )

                                iii)           Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA 2000)

                                iv)           National Curriculum framework (NCF,2005 )

BED-15105        EnvironmentalEducation                                 M.Marks-80s

Unit-I                    EnvironmentalEducation

                                I)             Meaning, Scope and importance ofenvironmental education.

                                ii)            Objectives of EnvironmentalEducation,

                                iii)           Approaches of EnvironmentalEducation, Role of Environmental and Natural                                                       resources in sustainabledevelopment.

Unit-II                 Environmental Concerns

                                I)             Cures and consequences ofenvironmental degradation

                                ii)            Air Pollution: cause, consequencesand remedies

                                III)          Water pollution: causes, consequencesand remedies.

                                  iv)         Deforestationand its implications suggest some remedial measures

Unit-III                Environmental Awarness         

                                I)             Salient features of environmentalawareness thought education: Programmes of                                            environmental education forsecondary school children.

                                ii)            Programmes of environmental educationfor attitude changes among the                                                           children with special referenceto save Dal Hangul, Save Tiger project.

                                iii)           Chipko movement.

Unit-IV               Man and Environment

                                i)             Man as a creator and destroyereffect of human activities on environment,                                                         values and ethics related toenvironment.

                                ii)            Concept of hazard, disaster andvulnerability.

                                iii)           Natural Disasters: Floods ,FlashFloods, Drought, Earthquakes, Cloudbursts and                                                                 Landslides.

INT1:           School Internship

The Internship will be observed asper the following schedule