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
Expectations
from Teachers’ Training Institutions engaged in preparing teachers for Rural Schools : A Survey
Jaya Halatwala,
Lecturer, Shri Saraswati Shikshan Mahavidyalaya, Pandesara,
Students coming from rural areas need special
attention from schools and teachers. Looking to the inputs of rural children,
special abilities and skills are required from teachers who are working in the
schools situated in rural areas. The
researcher conducted one survey to investigate the expectations of trained
teachers and principals of rural schools from
the teachers training institutions engaged in preparing teachers for rural
schools. The title of the Survey reads: “Expectations from teachers training
Institutions engaged in preparing teachers for rural schools: A Survey.” Major
objective of the study was to invite opinions of rural school teachers and
principal regarding their expectations from TTIs who
are preparing rural children. For the purpose of investigation one hundred
teachers and twenty five principals were selected in the sample from rural
schools. The sample was randomly selected. One opinionnaire
consisting twenty five statements was constructed to collect the necessary
information. Following major conclusions were drawn from the analysis of the
data. Teaching staff including principal is, sometimes, not professionally well
equipped, properly trained and they also reluctant to work in rural areas.
Rural schools find difficulty to get co-operation from the society because the
villagers are not aware about the importance of education. Parents of children
are having very poor family background and economic situation. So they
tend to send their children on job. For them earning is more important than
learning. Parents never visit school and do not
take interest in the education of their children. They are unable to give
academic guidance to their children studying in schools.
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Education for All in
Rural Area
Jayapaa, H.S, Reader, Sri
Saila College of Education
“Education for all” is a new concept which insists
universalizing education in the country.
As we know education is the foundation, on the basis of which the future
of the country determined. Primary
education is the basic foundation of education on which the future of pupils
depends. In our country special
importance should be placed for reducing the number of dropouts who are getting
education particularly in rural areas.
Education promotes national integration & therefore, great need for
an integrated and value-oriented education with a national perspective
eradication of adult illiteracy that to in rural sectors becomes the major
thought in our plans. The illiterates in
the age group of 15-35 years in our rural area must be linked effectively with
various development programmes. The
NPE1986 has given priority to educate the children of all sectors. Even than
achievement during the last 50 years are not satisfactory. The problem of dropping out of the school
without attending the full cycle of primary education has been fully recognized
by the planners and several measures have been initiated in this regard. Achievement made in this regard has to be
seen against the fact that the drop-out rate was as high as 60 percent in early
eighties. Some of the important measures
that are being implemented to address this issue have to be noted. Poverty is one of the major reasons for
children dropping out of school in the rural areas. Many of these children are likely to be
engaged in productive work and the opportunity cost involved in attending the
school is substantial for the parents.
In order to address this issue, all states have been implementing a
number of incentive schemes such as free textbooks and uniform, and attendance
scholarship for children from socio-economically deprived sections.
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Distance
Learning in Rural
Jay Badiyani, Sr. Lecturer, R. K. College
Of Business Management,
Since mankind development started, education has
served as the main instrument for disseminating various accomplishments of
human civilization. Emphasis on rural distance education, which includes
telecommunications-based education, is in harmony with economic developments of
the society. There is a drastic need to rethink about our education methods,
which should be in harmony with the social and community development. Distance
education serves this purpose with cost effectiveness with reach in rural
areas. Distance education can be in two modes i. e.
formal and non formal. Various models of distance education can be effective
but, have some barriers also which includes resources, technology,
learner oriented problems as well as some structural barriers. But, various
attempts are made for overcoming structural and other barriers to implement
this method of education to wider span of people. A survey was conducted for
knowing willingness of distance education in Rural
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Rural
Teacher’s Opinion towards Devotion to Profession
Jhankhana D. Bhatti, S.J.Thakkar B.ed college, Kalavad road,
New ideas about rural education are constantly being
added to education stream. And such new ideas have been frequently discussed.
This idea is know as devotion to profession. One of the aims this study was to
know rural teachers opinions towards devotion to profession. This study was
conducted considering the teachers of government. Semi-government and self
financed schools. A researcher made opinionnarie was
used to know the teachers’ opinion. The present study was survey type, in which
the samples were given opinionnarie along with
necessary instructions and opinions of the teachers’ were collected. The
collected data was in nominal scale. SPSS program was used to get χ2 value
of the statements of the opinionnarie according to
the type of school. Finding of the present study show that the teachers of all
kinds of schools were having the same opinions in terms of remuneration,
acceptance of the profession, appreciation of work, desire to give up the
profession in the expectation of more remuneration or reward neutral decisions,
development of professional, capabilities,
need of co-curricular activities, constant and complete control over the
class, co-operation in future plan and
to know the guardians’ expectations through an informal meeting. While
difference were found in terms of social
dignity, opinion towards strategies, the work field as a teacher, protest of the organisation
committee adequacy of teaching work, tasks related to exams, teaching
related improvement, practical classroom research and educational projects.
This is an attempt to know the teachers’ thinking towards devotion to
profession especially when the attempts have been made to give the teachers the
theoretical knowledge of devotion and develop in them. In future some necessary
changes will be made in the programs related to devotion by considering the findings
of the present study.
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Study of
Effectiveness of the Training Imparted to the Teachers Teaching Mathematics in Standard
7th for The Mathematics Content
Jigna L. Kholiya,
Lecturer,
Mathematics is a subject to be taught by
playing. Few students feels
that mathematics is hard subject. But
mathematics is hard subject who has created such feeling in them. To delete this feeling from their mind
mathematics subject should be made interesting and for that teacher should
teach this subject with different activities such as poem story telling, drama
or different aids. For teaching by above
methods first and the foremost teachers should be given training. For this purpose this research conducted with
the hope that it would be fruitful for future training programme. It was found out that the content training
given to the teachers teaching mathematics in standard 7th is not
effective. So the investigator decided
to give effective content training to the teachers teaching mathematics in
standard 7th.
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Today’s
Children are Tomorrow’s Citizens
Joycilin Shermila,
A, Annammal
India lives in villages as the major
proportion i.e., 74.28 per cent is living in 5,76,126
villages. The most important right of
every child is the right to good education, which is the key for his/her
development. Education helps to create
equality among citizens, without regard to origin, gender or religion, enables
people particularly women to exercise power of choice within the family. The percentage of the population of
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