Foundation of Education: Philosophical and Sociological

Prof. V.R. Taneja, M.A. (English & History), after his gold-medalist academic career, earned his Research Degree in Education with distinction from the University of London and won Holroyed Tydeman Prize. He has long experience of teacher education in the capacity of Principal, College of Education, Jullundhar and Chandigarh. He remained for a pretty long time Professor and Head, Department of Education, Panjab University, Chandigarh and retired as a Dean, Faculty of Education, Jammu University, Jammu in 1981. Prof. Taneja is closely associated with the educational schemes and programmes lauched by U.G.C., N.C.E.R.T. and served as an expert in the Selection Committees of U.P.S.C. More than a dozen books in Education and about a hundred of articles and papers are at his credit.