CONTENT 

EDU-HC-4016

Unit-1 Educational Thoughts of Srimanta Sankardev

- Brief Life Sketch and Philosophy of Life

- Views of Sankardev on Education and practices.

- Educational system of Satras and Namghars and their relevance in modern era


Unit-2 Educational Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore 

• Mahatma Gandhi

- Brief Life Sketch and Philosophy of Life

- Views of Gandhiji on Educational Philosophy and practices

- Gandhiji’s Nai Talim.

• Rabindranath Tagore

- Brief Life Sketch and Philosophy of Life

- Views of Tagore on Educational Philosophy and practices

- Tagore’s Vishvabharati 


Unit-3 Educational Thoughts of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

- Brief Life Sketch and Philosophy of Life

- Views of Kalam on Educational Philosophy and practices

- Kalam’s Education Model for the 21st Century


Unit-4 Educational Thoughts of Rousseau and Froebel 

• Jean Jacques Rousseau 

- Brief Life Sketch and Philosophy of Life

- Views of Rousseau on Educational Philosophy and practices

- Rousseau’s Negative Education

• Fredric Wilhelm August Froebel

- Brief Life Sketch and Philosophy of Life

- Views of Froebel on Educational Philosophy and practices

- Froebel’s Kindergarten.


Unit-5 Educational Thoughts of John Dewey and Madam Maria Montessori 

• John Dewey

- Brief Life Sketch and Philosophy of Life

- Views of Dewey on Educational Philosophy and practices

- Dewey’s Concept of Democratic Education 

• Madam Maria Montessori

- Brief Life Sketch and Philosophy of Life

- Views of Montessori on Educational Philosophy and practices

- Montessori’s Children House.


EDU-HC-4026

Unit-1 Basics of Educational Statistics

• Statistics- Meaning, Nature and Functions

• Need of statistics in Education

• Measures of central tendency and their uses 

• Mean. Median and Mode from ungrouped and grouped data 

• Measures of variability –Concept, Types and their uses, merits and demerits

• Quartile Deviation, Average Deviation, Standard deviation-(grouped and ungrouped data-short method), Combined SD


Unit-2 Graphical presentations of data

• Usefulness of Graphical presentations of data,

• Basic principle of constructing a graph,

• Different types of graph –histogram, frequency polygon, 

• Cumulative frequency percentage curve (Ogive), Smoothed graph.


Unit-3 Co-efficient of Correlation and Percentiles

• Coefficient of correlation – Meaning and types,

• Computation of, co-efficient of correlation by Rank difference method 

& Product-moment method and interpretation of result

• Calculation of Percentile and Percentile Rank


Unit-4 Normal Probability Curve and Its Application

• Normal Probability Curve: Its Meaning, Properties and Uses

• Table of Area under NPC

• Applications of Normal Probability Curve

• Divergence from Normality: Skewness and Kurtosis


Unit-5 Statistical Practical

• To determine the Mean Median and Mode

• Graphical Representation – Frequency Polygon, Histogram and Pie diagram


EDU-HC-4036

Unit-1 Social Inequality in Education and Constitutional Safeguards

• Concept of Social Inequality

• Constitutional Provision for Ensuring Equality in Education

• Education of Socially Disadvantaged Section: SCs, STs and Minorities , Education of people of Char area of Assam

• Education for Backward Children, Child Labour, Street Children and Slum Dwellers

• Gender Disparity and Rural-Urban Disparity in Education


Unit-2 Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization of Education

• Liberalization: Concept and its impact on education

• Privatization: Concept and its impact on education

• Globalization: Concept and its impact on education

• Public-private Partnership

• Education as investment.


Unit-3 Issues related to Students

• Youth Unrest: Concept, Causes and Remedies

• Campus Disturbance: Concept, Causes and Remedies

• Examination Anxiety: Concept, Causes and Remedies

• Issues related to Educated Unemployment.


Unit-4 Environmental Education and Population Education

• Main Environmental Issues: Global Warming, Ozone Depletion and Environmental Pollution

• Role of Environmental Education for Sustainable Development

• Role of Different Stakeholders (Government and Non-Government Organisations, Women, Media) in Environmental Protection 

• Population Explosion: Its Causes and Consequences

• Population Education for Population Control


Unit-5 Multi-Cultural Education and Alternative Education

• Concept, Objectives and Need of Multi-Cultural Education

• Curriculum and Instruction of Multi-Cultural Education

• Issues related to Multi-Cultural Education

• Concept of Alternative Education and its related Issues

• Role of NIOS and Sakshar Bharat Mission in Alternative Education

• Role of IGNOU and KKHSOU in Alternative Higher Education

• MOOC and its related Issues.


EDU-HG-4016

Unit-1 Education in British India

• The Beginning 

- The Charter Act of 1813

- The Anglicists-Orientalists Controversy

- Macaulay’s Minute, 1835

- Downward Filtration Theory

• Wood Despatch of 1854

- Background of the Despatch

- Recommendations

- Implementation of the Despatch

• Indian Education Commission-1882

- Appointment of Indian Education Commission

- Background for appointing the Commission

- Major Recommendations

- Criticism of the Commission


Unit-2 Raise of Nationalism and its impact on Education 

• Initiative of Gopalkrishna Gokhle, Gokhale’s Bill for Compulsory Primary Education- 1910-1912

• All India Educational Conference, Wardha, 1937

• Gandhijis Basic Education –Concept , Philosophy and Salient Features, Criticism of the Basic Education


Unit-3 Development of Indian Education: Post Independence I

• University Education Commission-1948

- Appointment of University Education Commission

- Aims of University Education

- Recommendations of the Commission

- Evaluation of the Recommendations 

• Secondary Education Commission-1952-53

- Appointment of Secondary Education Commission

- Aims and Objectives of Secondary Education

- Defects of Secondary Education- Recommendations of the Commission

- Evaluation of the Recommendations of the Commission


Unit-4 Development of Indian Education: Post Independence- II

• Education Commission-1964-66

- Major Recommendations and its effects on existing Indian education 

• National Policy of Education-1986

- Background

- Major Recommendations 

- Impact on Indian Education


Unit -5 Recent Developments in Indian Education

• The National Knowledge Commission’s Report
- Major recommendation and its implementation
• National Curriculum Framework, 2005
• Government Programmes of Education: SSA, RMSA and RUSA
• The Right to Education Act, 2009 and its implementation.


EDU-SE-4014
Unit-1 Bio-data

• Meaning, Purpose and Types of Bio-data

• Components of Bio-data

• Bio-data: Do’s and Do not’s

• Meaning of Resume and Curriculum Vitae

• Differences among Bio-data, Resume and Curriculum Vitae

• How to write a Good Academic Bio-data


Unit-2 Interview

• Meaning and objectives of Interview

• Different types of Interview: Structured interview, Unstructured interview, 

Job-related interview

• Characteristics of good interview

• Importance of interview

• Skills of facing interview