Adult and Non-Formal Education

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Adult and non-formal education are essential not only for eradication of illiteracy and universalisation of elementary education, but also for making life-long education a way of life and for bringing about the cultural revolution for the learning society. These alternatives are inter-related and inter-dependent and both should, therefore, go hand in hand for achieving the laudable objectives, There has been demand from the learned readers to bring out the revised edition of the book "Adult and Non-Formal Education". Since a lot of changes have taken place in the national scenario of Adult and Non-Formal Education, it is really essential to deal with these new changes and make it up-to-date. The chapter "development of adult education by 2001" gives a comprehensive review and growth of adult education in India including the latest trends and issues. The chapter on "literacy : critical factor for the knowledge revolution" discusses the emerging need, importance and challenges of the information/knowledge revolution in our country. The chapter "life long learning for a literate India : our future perspective" deals with the concept of life long education/learning and the pressing needs for a literate India to cope up with the present transaction and the future perspective. Since evaluation has assumed more significance and taken new dimensions, the chapter on "concurrent evaluation : its meaning, need and methods" was felt significant for the revised edition. The chapter "development of teaching-learning material in adult education" is felt very useful for providing suitable teaching and learning material for different groups of clientele. The chapter "development of non-formal education by 2001" gives a detailed picture of non-formal education in India with most of the latest trends and issues. Lastly, in this revised edition it was also felt necessary to give for reference the recent Government policies and schemes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jagannath Mohanty

Prof. Jagannath Mohanty after a distinguished academic career in India had been to United Kingdom for higher education and training-once in 1971-72 in the University of London under the Commonwealth Teachers' Training Bursaries Scheme and again in 1979 in the British Council Media Department, London under the Commonwealth Education Fellowship. He was one of the pioneering educational technology experts remaining in charge of implementing educational technology project from its very inception in 1975-76. He was in charge of the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) in Orissa. He is an eminent author having 30 and 120 titles to his credit respectively. Especially he is a prolific writer of books for children and has received 2 National Awards and 5 State Government and Sahitya Academy Awards in this field. Dr. Mohanty has varied experiences at all stages of education-primary, secondary, higher and teacher education. He was a Professors of Education, Principal of Institute of Advance Study in Education and Director, Academic Staff College, Utkal University. He was the President of the State chapter of Indian Association for Educational Technology, Chancellor of State chapter of International Association of Educators for World Peace, President of the State branch of Indian Association of Pre-school Education, President of Orissa Children's Literature Academy and President of Rajdhani Sishu sahitya Sansad, Bhubaneswar. He is the Executive and Chairman of the MBMC Trust. The author has been awarded Emeritus Fellowship by the UGC, New Delhi.