Education in Contemporary India

By Dr. Naziya Hasan | Assistant Professor, Department Of Teacher Education, Manipur University

Learners enrolled: 805

Education in Contemporary India is about learning the importance of education in today’s Indian context. For prospective teachers, it is required to have a sound knowledge of philosophical and sociological bases of education especially in the context of India. During the course of the study student teachers will be able to understand the meaning of philosophy and its relationship with Education, influences of various schools of philosophical thoughts on Education, Identify the relationship of education with culture and its role and understand teaching in the context of modernisation. The prospective teachers will also learn about Essence of Education, Fundamental thoughts and issues of philosophy in Education, Sociological Foundations of Education and Principles and Techniques of teaching.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	6 weeks
Category :	Teacher Education
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	31 Jul 2023
End Date :
Enrollment Ends :	31 Aug 2023
Exam Date :

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Course layout

Week 1:
1. Meaning and Importance of Education

2. General Aims of Education with respect to contemporary society

3. Types of Education-formal, informal and non-formal

4. Process and product of Education

Week 2:
5. Education and economic development: its relationship, education as an investment and consumption

6. Meaning and importance of philosophy

7. Schools of philosophy-Idealism, Naturalism and Pragmatism

8. Relationship between Education and Philosophy

Week 3:
9. Need of Educational philosophical knowledge to a Teacher

10. Contributions of Educational philosophers

Week 4:
11. Meaning and Importance of Sociology of Education

12. Socialization-agencies of Socialization-family, Peer group, school and mass media

13. Culture- meaning, characteristics and relationship with education, role of school in preservation and
promotion of culture

Week 5:
14. Social change-meaning, importance, factors affecting, role of education in social change

15. Social mobility- meaning & importance, types, role of education in promoting social mobility

Week 6:
16. Meaning and importance of teaching

17. Maxims of teaching

18. Devices of teaching-narration, explanation, description, questioning and illustrations

19. Strategies of teaching-Meaning, importance and characteristics

20. Innovative methods of teaching Project Based teaching, Team teaching

Books and references

Reference:
Amin, S. N. (2017). An Introduction to Education. New Delhi: Educreation Publishing.

Clausen, J. A. (1968). Socialization and Society. Boston: Little, Brown and Company

Brookover, W. B. (1949). Sociology of Education: A Definition. American Sociological Review. 14(3), pp 407-415

Doda, Z. (2005). Introduction to Sociology. Ethiopia: Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative.

Hansen, D. A. (1967). The Uncomfortable Relation of Sociology of Education. In Hansen, D. A. & Gerstl, J. E. (eds.) On Education, Sociological Perspective. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, Inc, pp-21-24.

Sharma, Y. K. (2003). Foundations in Sociology of Education. New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers & Distributers.

Instructor bio

Dr. Naziya Hasan

Assistant Professor, Department Of Teacher Education, Manipur University

Dr Naziya Hasan is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teacher Education, Manipur University. She has experience of teaching English to undergraduate as well as school students. She has received her PhD degree from IASE, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in the area of English Language Teaching (ELT). Her areas of interest are ELT, Gender Issues in Education, Teacher Education, Language Education, Educational Technology and Curriculum Development.

She is an active contributor in the development and preparation of MOOCs. She has prepared more than 50 e-contents, modules and video lectures for different MOOCs. She is the course coordinator of three MOOCs namely; Education in Contemporary India, Educational Technology and Youth, Gender and Identity. In the last cycles, Education in Contemporary India and Educational Technology courses have benefitted more than 14000 students worldwide.

To her credit, she has many articles and research papers published in national and international journals of repute. She has contributed many chapters in different books on education and ELT. She has presented a good number of papers in national and international conferences and seminars. In addition to these, she has attended and delivered lectures in workshops sponsored by UGC, NCERT and RCI. Dr Hasan has keen interest in writing on the issues concerning education.