About the Book

The present book is different from all others on the subject in as much as it deals with the description of the content of teaching, presents a brief history of the developments in teaching modes and lastly describes the activity called 'Teaching' itself. None of the part is on the all too familiar lines. For instance, when the book deals with the content of teaching in Part 1; it tries to correct and update the content of the present day teaching of a problem For instance, it questions the common assumption that if Macaulay had not come or written his Minutes the teaching of English language would not have become either compulsory or popular. The book argues that it is not so. The underlying principles a popular language follows are: (a) 'the language of the ruler is the language of the ruled too' and (b) "that language is more acceptable to people, which gives them their bread and butter". It is a realty which needs no Macaulay to get identified with. Part 2 of the book deals with the developments in educational technology and a reality which poses a challenge to teacher education; and Part 3 deals with the Nature of Teaching-a terse subject.
The book may be useful for the teacher educators and policy makers.

About Author

R. P. Singh (b. 1930)-A former Senior Fulbright Fellow, and a Senior ICSSR fellow attached to the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of London. Retired from the NCERT as Head, Department of Teacher Education and also as Chairman, Educational Research and Innovations Committee, Dr. Singh is a recipient of many honours and awards. A prolific writer and an avid reader, he feels concerned about the problems teacher education is currently facing. He recently authored the National Curriculum Framework for the NCTE. His books and papers have been published both in India and abroad. His best-known books in the area of teacher education are: The Indian Teacher, Teachers in India, Teacher Education in Turmoil etc. He is the founder President of All India Association of Teacher Educators.

Contents

Preface

Part 1 The Issues: Researched

1. An Object Lesson on Colonial India: The Language Policy
2. Caste and Education
3. Educational Backwardness and the Indian Muslims:
A Critique of Causal Relationship
4. Educating the Girl Child: A Lesson for Teacher Education
5. Quality Assurance in Educational Research:
A Quest for Possibility
6. Tech-Savvy Teachers: Enter 21st Century
7. Education as an Institutionalized Network

Part 2 Technology in Indian Classrooms

8. Technology in India Classroom-Introduction
9. Countrywide Classrooms-A Teaching Alternative: Stepping into Knowledge Society
10. The International Scenario: The ETV- The World Experience
11. The Indian Initiative
12. The Media Centres-EMRCs and the AVRCs: Activating Support Systems
13. Packaging Knowledge-Quality in Quantity: Developing Insights
14. The ETV in Higher Education: Reviews Within and Without
15. Looking Ahead: From a Vision to a Mission

Part 3 The Nature of Teaching

16. The Nature of Teaching-Introduction
17. Towards a Philosophy of Teaching
18. Conditions for Teaching
19. Conditions of Teaching: Goal-Setting
20. Teaching: An Analysis

Bibliography
Index
 

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