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AIAER NEWS & VIEWS
Research Meet
NEWSNOTES
MARS movement
Fourth wave in
Education
Glimpses of Amritsar
The grass root
Listening Chair
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RESEARCH MEET
“Academicians,
teachers & educators assembled at Amritsar to peruse the same cause. "
AIAER XVI International conference on
March 21-23 , 2003, at Khalsa College Of Education, Amritsar was the venue for
all the educationist to meet & share their research experiences in
education.
Mission of AIAER ·
Research scholars
representation ·
Recognition to
best Research paper ·
Activities at local, national & international
level ·
Association with International organization
The Conference
commenced with the arrival of 180 delegates from different parts of the country
as well as from different corners of the world. The host members of the association welcomed
dignitaries & delegates from UK., Thailand, Australia, Japan & USA.
On the eve of the conference important persons from the field of education formally inaugurated the event and congratulated the association organizers to hold such an event that would initiate the thinking & pursue research for the cause of betterment of education in the country.
The AIAER president expressed his delight in joining the educational associates in research perusal. Laying out the mission of the association, he praised the initiation taken by the state chapters in strengthening its root. Yet he emphasized ample room for new ventures in the field of research where the teachers of school can search and solve their problem of the class. He stressed on the need for MARS movement. Emphatically, the subject of Peace & development was brought to focus and the sub themes to be followed in the consequent sessions was taken up. Particularly the concepts of education, peace, development, and research implications, was the highlight of the key note address.
As many as 157 papers
related to the themes of peace, development, and research issues were read. Dr.
M.B. Buch Memorial lecture, Dr. Sahib Singh Memorial lecture and Shri Bhai Jodh
Singh Memorial lecture were delivered by scholars of eminence.
The outcome of this meaningful gathering surfaced as the role of
the changing scenario of the society was made explicit. The participants could
foresee the need to change their thinking in lieu of the educational change at par to the development across the
world.
The
conference covered the shades of peace, ranging from philosophical, to
political, to psychological, to legal, to social was sought out. Moreover a
comprehensive treatment to explore the meaning of peace & development in
research issues, was proposed so as to use creativity for helping man to learn
how to deal with his fears. In order to encourage action research by school
teachers, 5th September-Teachers’ Day was dedicated as MARS
movement. The conference other than the Educational discourse became the house
for various cultural activities where the creativeness of teachers & taught
sprightly brought applaud from the onlookers & made the event memorable.
MARS Movement
Prof. B.K. Passi
Through this open letter, we invite
you to lead the movement of improving practices of education and also help
developing self-esteem amongst our teachers. Let us play proactive roles and
alter our perspectives. We, the teachers of India, should transform ourselves
from simple teachers to teacher-researchers.
“Creating Mass Movement of Action
Research by School Teachers (MARS) is a way to rejuvenate the self-esteem
of teachers by developing a reasonable level of expertise, and full faith in
self-driven research process.
All teachers are confronted with
innumerable problems related to the system of education, aspects of pedagogy,
and related aspects. Most of them continuously reflect upon them too. Some are
constantly acting and resolving the problems and issues. Yet, almost none of
them consider their effort worth documenting, sharing on a platform of
research. In this context MARS movement intends to accord due recognition to
the on-going contributions of the unrecognized work of teachers.
Teachers can be inducted into the mode
of action research, which is closely related to the area of their work as well
as issues related to children,
teachers, administrators, parents, communities, and support personnel.
Documentation of the findings and ideas
emerging from such action researches in various forms must be encouraged.
Findings must be communicated to the communities.
Let us share these beliefs with our
colleagues. The Chair and many other members of various professional networks
should facilitate the process of sharing by providing all kinds of support.
Other than the on-going activities, even reports of alternative approaches,
innovations, indigenous methodologies used in the past can be communicated to
all.
This ‘open letter’ intends to ‘trigger’
ideas and thoughts in you and thus tempt you to join the network. Let us
explore new paths in research and education together.
[“Self-Reliance Through MARS”, the original
first open letter is slightly abridged
and presented to the readers.]
NEWSNOTES ·
AIAER
goes global with having linkage with Australian Association for Educational
Research. ·
17th
International Conference of AIAER will be organized in Rajkot, Gujarat from
Jan. 10-12, 2004 on the theme “Fourth Wave in Education” (approaches,
methods, knowledge and systems). ·
International
conferences will be organized periodically in other countries. The external
conferences is starting with Bangkok conference of 2005. ·
In the lines of providing
recognition to best research paper, two school teachers had the honor
to receive the research awards. ·
AIAER members lead the
way by reaching out creatively to the less fortunate children in the cities
Bangkok & Indore
THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO
LIVE LIFE; ONE IS AS THOPUGH NOTHING IS
MIRACLE, & THE OTHER IS AS THOUGH EVERYTHING IS A MIRACLE.
- ALBERT EINSTEIN
KNOWLEDGE
XVII AIAER
International Conference at Rajkot shall go for the discourse in Fourth Wave of
Education. Fourth wave of education
that focuses at knowledge, spiritualism
& responsibility.
With the shifting paradigms of
educational waves , the trends of
decline of
materialism & scientism have paved way to responsiveness
in
institutions with the emergence of self forgetful service paradigm.
With the power
–shift of each of the cresting wave in accordance to time,
RESPONSIVENESS
tend to generate a new world order that extrapolate one’s
imagination
about social evolution in order to be
a responsive society.
Where the
earlier waves touched lives in
developing separately, the fourth
wave is to
incorporate oneness & co-creating. This wave theory in conceptual
sense can
redesign the frontiers of business, politics, religion, global affairs &
SELF-FORGETFUL SERVICE
social power interrelationships
This green land has always felt the fury of demarcation line
between two neighbouring nations. But with the never-say-die spirit,
Wasinn; a Thai nationalist, through the photographs made it a personal
mission to bring out the positive aspect of the region.