One of the most important goals of education is to enable learners to acquire knowledge, develop understanding and various skills, indicate positive attitudes, values and habits conductive to an all round development of their personality. Education brings the modifications in the behaviour amongst learners at different stages of human growth. Almost all policies of Education and Education Commissions in India has consistently recommended Work Experience as a compulsory subject in the curriculum at all stages of school education, starting from primary school to senior secondary school. However this subject could not find proper place in the teaching learning process in school system and this essential component of curriculum could not able to achieve the expected learning outcomes. Teachers play a vital role in transacting the curriculum and up-dating knowledge of their students. This book has been written for the students who are pursuing diploma in Elementary Teacher’s Education (ETE) and certification course in Nursery Teacher Training (NTT) in the various Teachers Training Institutes. The contents included in this book are need based. The important recommendation of various Committees and commission have been mentioned and wherever possible we have tried to give statements from the original sources ETE and NTT students, but will useful as resource material to the teacher educators, who are teaching this subject in various teachers training institutes run by various states of India.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR G.S. Sehgal
Dr. G.S. Sehgal was born in 1940 in district Gujranwala now in West Pakistan. He obtained his Bachelor of Physical Education (B.P.E.) Degree from Govt. College of Physical Education, Punjabi University, Patiala with First class and third position in the university and was awarded merit scholarship by the University. He did his Master of Arts (Political Science) from Punjab University, Chandigarh, Master of Physical Education (M.P.E.) from Jiwaji University, Gwalior and Master of Education (M.Ed.) from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla,Master of Arts (Religious Studies), Punjabi niversity, Patiala and Ph.D. (Education), IASE, Faculty for Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Besides being an outstanding student, he always distinguished himself as a good sportsman. He represented Patiala and East Punjab State Union (PEPSU) in All India Schools Boys Hockey Championship held at Bhopal in 1956. He represented Punjab University, Chandigarh in Hockey in 1959 and also led Punjabi University, Patiala Hockey Team in1962. He started his career as Director of Physical Education in Sri Guru Gobind Singh College, Chandigarh in 1966 and thereafter joined Rajasthan University, Jaipur as a Hockey Coach. He has a long experience in school administration as School Inspector, Physical Education, in Department of Education, M.C.D. and expertise in Teacher Education especially in the area of Work Experience. He worked as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Work Experience and Vocational Education, State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT), Delhi since 1990. During these years he organied a number of training programmes and seminars and published research projects. He was awarded a Merit Certificate in 1997 by Bharat Scouts and Guide, New Delhi on the occasion of Golden Jubilee Celebration of India’s Independence. He published books on ‘A Hand Book on Gardening Activities’ in collaboration with IARI, Pusa, New Delhi in 1997 and ‘Work Education’ in 2001, published by APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi. Dr. Sehgal has contributed many articles in reputed educational journals related to various aspects of Work Experience programme.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR L.P. Singh
Professor L.P. Singh took his M.A. from Allahabad (1957) Ph.D. from Delhi (Indian School of International Studies) in 1961 and a second Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1964. Since 1964, he has been teaching in the U.S. and Canadian Universities, Currently he is Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. L.P. Singh is the author of five other books: The Politics of Economic Cooperation in Asia, Power Politics and Southeast Asia, Post-Nehru Foreign Policy: The Shastri Period, U.N. and Nambia, and U.N. and the Birth of States.
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