Understanding Education

Understanding Education

1 Education as an Operational Aspect of Society

  1. Education as a Social Sub-system
  2. Functions of Education
  3. Social Change and Education
  4. Education and Economic Development
  5. Political Systems and Education

2 Education – A Purposive and Continuous Process

  1. Education as Purposive Process
  2. Individual Aims of Education
  3. Social Aims of Education
  4. Education as a Continuous Process

3 Differentiating Education from Learning and Schooling

  1. Literate and Educated
  2. Educated and Knowledgeable
  3. Education and Learning
  4. Learning Society and Learning
  5. Education and Schooling

4 Education as an Institutional Network

  1. Concepts and Definitions
  2. Organizations and Institutions
  3. Stages and Levels
  4. Purposes: General/Specific Requirements – Social/Individual

5 Socio-Philosophical Bases

  1. Education as a Sub-system
  2. Education and Schooling
  3. Major Purposes of Schooling
  4. Culture and Education
  5. Culture and Social Groups
  6. Socio-Cultural Change and Educational Reorganization
  7. Acculturating Role of Education

6 Education – Significant Historical Developments

  1. Ancient Indian Education
  2. Indian Education in Medieval and Modern Times
  3. Post-Independence Developments

7 Education Supports Required

  1. Resources in Education
  2. Types of Resources
  3. Resource Mobilization and Utilization

8 Community Participation and Support in Education

  1. What is Community?
  2. Community Support and Participation
  3. Appraisal of Historical Perspectives
  4. Community Participation in Educational Development
  5. Janshala Programme
  6. Lok Jumbish Project
  7. M.V. Foundation
  8. Ensuring Better Participation of Community in Educational and Schooling Process

9 Educational Goals as Reflective of Socio- Political Ideology of the Society

  1. Political System
  2. Education System
  3. Education and Politics

10 Political Forces as Necessary Supports and Inevitable Constraints to Education

  1. The State and Education
  2. Equality and Equity
  3. Universalization of Elementary Education

11 Educational Operations and Political Decision Making

  1. Dependence of Education on Political Decision-making
  2. Educational Operations: Concept and Types
  3. Considerations Influencing Political Decision-making in Education
  4. Political Forces and Major Areas of Political Decision-making in Education
  5. Policy-related Decision-making and Educational Operations

12 Education – Its Dimensions

  1. Education: Aims
  2. Education: Distinctive Features
  3. Dimensions of Education

13 Education – Knowledge Generation

  1. Knowledge in General
  2. Meaning and Theories of Truth
  3. The Knowledge-Getting Process
  4. Generation of Knowledge