School Education is the foundation of the entire educational infrastructure. It is imperative that its strength and stamina must determine the quality and quantity of educational panorama in the country. It is, therefore, felt essential to study various aspects of school education in order to know the status quo, identify the problems faced and conduct experiments for improving the existing systems and schemes in execution. In this book as many as 27 studies have found place to give an idea about the status, issues and concerns in the field of school education. The studies have been classified into four categories, such as: Democracy, sociology and economics of education. Rural, tribal and minorities development in education. Nutrition, creativity and methods of teaching. Learning through media. These studies are necessary for creating adequate awareness and interest, imparting requisite psychomotor skills, developing positive attitudes and so on. Such studies would throw light on the dark corridors of our teaching-learning system and activate the idle and inert agencies and motivate the sincere workers in the field of school 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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