S. Venkataiah
68 books
In the realm of education ‘teacher’ possesses the key role. Hence the need of teacher-training. The teacher should take note of the interests, skills and knowledge of each learner and gently guide his explorations into different fields of knowledge. The teacher should learn to view knowledge as a unified field and not perpetuate its arbitrary segmentation. The teacher should develop empathy for the first and second generation learners. The teacher must find ...
Vocational education or training which is currently the real demand, is a nebulous term having differing concepts and meanings. These have arisen from traditional practices and the meaning of terms used and their implication. Basic differences for certain practices and relationships in vocational or occupational education are fundamental in nature and programmes. Vocational education is education/training of workers. It is the education for manual work. It is ...
Is to undergo higher education without any planning beneficial or fruitful? Can 'distance education' be exact alternate option for conventional higher education? These are really vital issues the society has seriously to ponder over. The present book is an attempt to answer these queries in the modern context. Distance education; Teaching and learning in higher education; Distance education: Theory and practice; Opportunities in higher ...
Women constitute half the world population, perform nearly two-third of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world’s income and own less than one-hundredth of the world’s property. Under such pathetic scene to uplift the condition of women on par with men—only education can help. Besides the academic value, this will prove a dependable reference tool to policy planners and administrators.
A good life, which is the basic aim of education, is one in which a man develops his individual potentialities and becomes thereby a useful member of the community in which he lives. Basic education is the education of life, through life and for the sake of life. This formula epitomizes all the essentials of the scheme of basic education. The basic education should equip boys and girls to earn their livelihood by employment in the vocations learnt. This book ...
Extension education is education for rural people outside the regularly organised schools and class-rooms for bringing out social and cultural development. Extension means to extend, to spread or to disseminate useful information and ideas to rural people. The aim of extension education must be very specific in order to able to bring about any or all these desirable changes in human behaviour. Effective learning results from a plan, not from trial and error. ...
For emphatic dissemination of knowledge, advanced communication technology is felt essential on the part of both developed and developing countries. Formal educational broadcasting was started by BBC in 1924. The Australian Broadcasting Company took an attempt for school broadcasting in 1929. The use of radio in education developed very fast in USA in the thirties.The FSBS devotes more than one-half of its radio output to educational and cultural broadcasts. Now ...
The concept of complementarity between formal and non-formal education rests with fulfilling the constitutional obligation of universal elementary education. Nonformal education has character of flexibility in respect of timings, vacations, curriculum and multiple point entry etc. and adjustment according to local specific need of the area and locality. Nonformal education encompasses different sorts of streams like fundamental adult education, vocational ...
An adequate provision of pre-primary instruction should be regarded as an essential adjunct of any national system of education. Pre-primary education in all cases be free. Nursery schools and classes should invariably be staffed with women teachers specially trained for this purpose. This book contains highly useful material derived from authoritative sources. Child education, developmental theories in early education, parent involvement in early childhood ...
Every society on the earth has its own distinct food habits and customs—which mainly bases on local availability of food resources. Due to dearth of awareness and socio-economic conditions people suffer from malnutrition. To satiate the hunger or to fill stomach with food is not enough. A ‘balanced diet’ i.e. scientific combination of nutritive ingredients like protein, fats, vitamins etc. with prescribed calorific value is necessary for proper and healthy ...