INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Of
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH
on
IMPROVING RURAL EDUCATION
on
10-12 OCTOBER 2005
at
ANGEL MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL,
THIRUNINRAVUR, NEAR CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU
ABSTRACTS OF THE PAPERS
Strategies for Enhancing
Rural Teachers Development
Vasanthi, S, Reader, A. H. Komala, Lecturer & S. Yamini,
Lecturer, N.K.T. National College of Education, Triplicane, Chennai - 600 005
Education
helps development in two ways to enhance stability of rural society by working towards
economic growth and self- reliance, the second towards structural
transformation of the society. Education need not bean instrument of change it
could itself be an object of change and development. Teacher is a leader on the
teaching level and personal level. In teaching level where the teacher deals
with students intellectual growth which he can do if he posses or acquires the
knowledge and skill required for planning implementing and evaluating a
classroom teaching programme. At the
personal level a teacher deals with emotional, spiritual, social growth of
students which he or she acquires by understanding and insight for reading
every student successfully. Technology is not a perfect substitute for teacher.
Technology by itself will not revolutionize the learning process, since
technology is a catalyst in the form of competent and dedicated teachers, who
can kindle the curiosity of the students to delve deep into any subject. This
brings to lime light the role of teachers in education. The pre service
provided to teacher trainees at the Colleges of Education does not differ in
its content to suit to the rural and urban student teachers, which is a cause
for the failure or drawback of teaching service in the rural areas. Thus this
paper is aimed to present the pre service and in service provided to teachers
and strategies to enhance the development of the rural teachers. To make the
vision of Kothari Commission “if quality of teaching
is good the academic standards of the students is bound to be high. Ineffective teaching and high standards of students do not go
together” to be true.
Empowering
Rural Teachers For Improved Classroom Transactions In
English
Vijila Asokan, Lecturer,
DIET, Thirumoorthy Nagar, Dt.
Coimbatore
Undoubtedly, English has now evolved into a highly
refined communication medium with the people in almost all the countries of the
world increasingly using it for a multitude of purposes. Now that it has managed to become a truly
international language used more and more in world conferences and summit
meetings, its usefulness in the Indian context is beyond question. As a legacy bequeathed to us by the British-
English had served to unify the country and also to act as a “window on the
world”. Quite frequently insightful
observers of the Indian scene make statements to the effect that English is an
invaluable asset to the nation. What
must cause concern however is the rapid decline in the standard of English
language teaching in the educational institutions in the country with both the
teachers and the taught especially in rural areas, not being in a position to
use it effectively. Only the feel for
the language can make the teachers absorb the nuances of English and in turn
enable them to transmit their knowledge to the pupils.
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Initial Teacher
Training for Teachers for Rural Schools
Vijaya,K, A-1, Special Staff colony, Kassar, Bahadur Garh - 124501 [email protected].
This paper details on integrating new practitioners
into an teaching community and school culture that support the continuous
professional growth of rural teachers .The teachers must try to establish goals
for the curriculum, develop relevant content, use the time well, teaching
practices, should know about how the children learn and ensure that their
teaching styles are effective with appropriate facilities in rural areas and
also should encourage a professional dialogue that articulates the goals,
values and best practices of community. Teachers also require training in
classroom management and in updated pedagogical methods in rural and remote
schools. The teachers should have language fluency and capability to serve the
need of the school to which they will be located, and must go through other
trainings like computer literacy, online training courses, distance learning,
etc.. to develop their
teaching skills.
Strategies for Enhancing Rural Teachers’
Development
Vinita Singh, Asst. Prof., Faculty of
Education, Banasthali Vidyapith - 304 022 Email: [email protected]
On the assumption that schools are both instructional
and cultural agencies, schools need to co-construct knowledge by involving
teachers and learners in dialogic inquiry.
Hence, teachers as a facilitator need to provide learners the space for
critical search for knowledge. This framework calls for such program that aims
to ensure the learning needs of all young learners, through equitable access to
appropriate learning and life skills. Research pedagogy is being proposed as an
approach for this purpose that would enhance interactivity mobility in school
community. A means to motivate and help
learners, organize themselves to manage their own activities and to organize
themselves to counterbalance the disparity in knowledge management between
rural and urban areas. Implicit in the pedagogy of search is the notion of
empowerment that enables the emancipation of students by allowing them a voice.
This paper examines the theoretical underpinnings required for an articulation
of an interactivity mobility through research in rural educational space.
Existing practices in classrooms and assumptions about life skills is examined.
This analysis articulates the level of planning, and makes an attempt to
explore the practical possibilities, restrictions and requirements of rural
settings in Indian classroom space.
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A Study
of Effectiveness of Audio Visual Aids for Population Education
Vishnu Kumar Nema, Govt.
Boys’
Modern Age is the Age of Explosion. The population problem has created a great
problem against the way of progress and development. The population increase has arisen in the
form of human problem in which each side of life has become effective it has
done effect on health, skill, wealth and income of man. The national progress is being stopped by
effective national income and production.
Data’s of census bring the kind knowledge on the various social sides,
increase or decrease in population and common system as occupation, quality of
education, religion, and languages etc. Fast increasing population is a serious
question among us that is horrible and complicated too. Watering on the ground side why it does not
seem. But thinking deeply, it is seemed how serious and extensive dangers of
population are. The ways to get good results from our planned develop works and
comfortable futures ambitions are scattering as straw in the flood of present
rate of flood of present rate of increasing population. The population problem is mother of other
problems. It is such spider that it is
weaving its web Day-Night, and we are being caught continuous by its warp and
waft.
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