Primary and elementary education is the major concern of all nations since it is the foundation of the entire superstructure of education and is directly related with success of democracy. Its universalisation has been taken as an international challenge, a national commitment and an important concern of the states over the last five decades. Universalisation of elementary education being a constitutional directive has still remained unrealised and removal of mass illiteracy being a "national stigma" as pointed out by Mahatma Gandhi, has still eluded the grasp inspite of a large number of projects, schemes, experiments, drives and campaigns. A plethora of reports furnished by various committees and commissions have been implemented half-heartedly without expected results. Although the problems are still serious they have to be tackled as early as possible with a strong political will and a determined national commitment. This important book on the major issue of "Primary and Elementary Education" presented in 69 chapters under five parts, will be of great use to planners, teachers, supervisors and students of education.
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.
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