SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR HUMANITY SCIENCE & ENGLISH LANGUAGE

7943-7949

Authors: Sipra Ray

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7956-7972

Authors: H. K. Pandey & Col Shantonu Roy

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7977-7982

Authors: R. M. Tamil Selvan

The present study intended to examine self-concept of students with learning disabilities of ninth standard of Chennai district. The sample size of the study is 78 selected by stratified random sampling. It is a normative survey type study. The research tool used is Self-concept Scale adapted from Mohsin’s Self-concept inventory. The results indicated that there is no significant difference between the self-concept of students with learning disabilities with respect to gender, medium of instruction and type of school management except the level of learning disabilities.

7988-7991

Authors: Mr. Dinesh & S. Chidambara Raja

The purpose of the present study was to find the effect of physical exercise and yogic practice on self-confidence and blood pressure (both systolic and diastolic). For this purpose, forty five middle aged working women of Faridabad town, New Delhi in the age group of 35 – 40 years were selected. They were divided into three equal groups (n = 15), each group consisted of fifteen subjects, in which group – I underwent physical exercise, group – II underwent yogic practice and group – III acted as control group who did not participate in any special training. The training period for this study was six days in a week for twelve weeks. Prior to and after the training period the subjects were tested for self-confidence and blood pressure (systolic and diastolic). Self-confidence was assessed by using Agnihotri self-confidence inventory (ASCI) and blood pressure was assessed by using sphygmomanometer respectively. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference if any, among the experimental groups and control group on selected criterion variables separately. Since there were three groups involved in this study the Scheffẻ S test was used as pos-hoc test. It was concluded from the result of the study that the physical exercise and yoga practice has positively altered the criterion variables, such as, self-confidence and blood pressure (both systolic and diastolic).

7996-8002

Authors: Mr. Shashibushan Sharma & S. Chidambara Raja

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of resistance training, endurance training and combined training on leg strength, back strength and tidal volume. Sixty male students aged between 17 and 22 years were selected for the study. They were divided into four equal groups, each group consisting of fifteen subjects in which Group I underwent resistance training, group II underwent endurance training, group III underwent combined training three days per week for twelve weeks and group IV acted as control, which did not participate in any training. The subjects were tested on selected criterion variables such as leg strength, back strength and tidal volume at prior to and immediately after the training period. For testing the leg strength and back strength, the dynamometer was used and tidal volume was tested by using expirograph. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference if any, between the experimental groups and control group on selected criterion variables separately. Since there were four groups involved in the present study, the Scheffé S test was used as post-hoc test. The selected criterion variables such as leg strength, back strength and tidal volume were improved significantly for all the training groups when compared with the control group and the leg and back strength were improved significantly for resistance training group and in tidal volume, the endurance training group was significantly improved.

8012-8019

Authors: Nishant B. Pandya

What strikes you first about Chetan Bhagat’s novels is the fact that this author writes about Indians and for Indians. His characters are young, ambitious and passionate and have the same moral, social and religious dilemmas as many of the young Indians today. At the same time their context and sensibility too is unabashedly Indian. if one examines the studies on attitude and behaviour of youth, all these refer to the context of national transformation from a “traditional” to “modern” society. Bhagat has remained the mouthpiece of Indian youth and representative of India. His writing comes out of his keen observation of his surroundings. As a result his writing is coloured by the sensibilities of modern people and world. No writer can escape from the world in which he or she lives. Taine’s theory of Race, Milieu and Moment is very aptly and appropriately allocable in the works of Chetan Bhagat. Bhagat‟s popularity among collegiate shows his deep understand regarding college life in particular and modern life in general. The present research paper aims at studying the ways in which Chetan Bhagat has portrayed the Indian Youth with all their dreams, aspirations, traumas, and turmoil with special reference to One Night @ the Call Centre. The reciprocal relationship between society and modern youth has also been taken into account to reach to honest findings.

8025-8030

Authors: Nishant B. Pandya

Chetan Bhagat’s choices of subjects for his books are very Bhagatian. Bhagat has potential to be called one of the voices of a generation of Middle class Indian youth facing the choices and frustrations that come with the prospect of growing wealth and advancement. His first novel Five Point Someone is set in the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in the period 1991to1995. It’s a story about the adventures of three mechanical engineering students Hari (the narrator), Ryan Oberoi and Alok Gupta. They fail to cope with the grading system of the IITs. In five Point Someone, he describes the perennial themes like parental pressure on children for getting admission in highly competitive institute, earn high grades, get a good job, poverty, exploitation at job place, ill effects of domestic quarrel etc. An attempt has been made in this study to place the analysis of the impact of modernization on educated Indian youth in the perspective of modernization of the Indian society. This research paper aims at studying the behaviour of Indian youth in social context. The study of their disillusionment, as presented by Bhagat, has been taken into account to study their sense of being alienated from the world or society. As Adam Clayton Powell claims in Keep the Faith, Baby! (1967); “We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds” 7

8041-8051

Authors: Jacob Kyengo Muthoka, David M. Mulwa & Francis B. Mutua

In Mukaa Sub-county, instructional supervision by principals is yet to be effectively realized. In many cases, teachers do not complete their syllabus and students also register low academic grades in both internal and national examinations. Thus, the purpose of the study was to assess the influence of principals’ administrative experience on effectiveness in instructional supervision in public secondary schools in Mukaa Sub-county, Makueni County, Kenya. The study was guided by the path-goal theory. The study adopted correlation research design. Questionnaires were used to collect data from the respondents. Validity was established through expert judgment. Data were descriptively analyzed using frequencies and percentages and inferentially using Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Test Analysis with the help of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 23) and presented using tables and charts. The study established that many secondary schools register low grades in national examinations (KCSE) and that principals’ administrative experience influence principals’ effectiveness in provision of instructional supervision. However, many secondary schools are headed by principals with relatively few years of administration. Thus, the study recommends that the Ministry of Education through Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) should promote teachers to positions of school principals based on merit and above all the number of years one has served progressively in positions of headship such as Heads of Departments and Deputy Principals.

8060-8067

Authors: Sharon M. Kasilia, David M. Mulwa & Alex Kamwaria

Academic performance of a student is of paramount importance in every academic institution. The focus of this study was to address the effect of instructional media on student academic performance in CRE in public secondary schools in Kenya. The student’s performance in CRE remains a top priority for educators in CRE because when students get good grades, they become competitive in the world of work and may have better employment opportunities. The study adopted a descriptive survey design and the system theory to investigate on how instructional media affects the academic performance of CRE students. The researcher used simple random sampling techniques to sample 10 schools to be used in the study out of the 75 secondary schools in Machakos Sub-County. Proportional stratified technique was used to select a total of 300 CRE students from the 10 selected public secondary schools. Purposive sampling was applied to sample 10 Form Three CRE teachers. The study used questionnaires as the research instruments. There was a questionnaire for students and the teachers. The study established that majority (50%) of the teachers indicated that CRE performance in their school was very good. In addition majority (56%) of the students indicated that the CRE performance in their school was good. The study found that the use of instructional media will enhance learner’s performance as the lessons are always interesting, it makes the topic to be better understood, and also the issues become more familiar to the students. The instructional media improves learner’s motivation thus increasing performance. Further it also improves the learner’s memory as they are able to remember issues easily. The study established that majority (60%) of the respondents indicated that they did not face challenges when using instructional media in teaching. The study concluded that the performance of CRE was good due to the use of instructional media in teaching and learning. The study also concluded that the instructional media the teacher mostly used in teaching CRE was boards followed by textbook. It is therefore clear that the schools in Machakos have inadequate instructional materials needed for learning. The study recommended that the principals should emphasis on the importance of instructional media with the aim of raising the academic performance of the school as it has been proved that instructional media in teaching and learning enhanced the performance of the students.

8077-8084

Authors: Manoj Praveen G. & Anoop Thomas Alex

Case Based Reasoning is explained by Kolodner (1992) as a reasoner remembers previous situations and solutions similar to the current one and uses them to help solve the new problem. If studentteachers are taught to adopt Case Based Reasoning as an approach in solving classroom management problems and then when they are faced with new problems as beginner teachers this approach will help them to study previous situations and understand how they were solved. Therefore, the idea is to develop in student-teachers with necessary abilities to solve classroom management problems through a Case Based Reasoning approach. This pedagogical intervention in teacher education programme may help in developing quality educators. To successfully adopt this approach, a case library should be constructed. A case library consists of genuine stories about how experienced in-service school teachers have solved classroom management problems. These stories are to be supported with necessary theoretical inputs, prior experiences, expert opinions and worked examples extrapolating how the experienced teacher found the solution to the problem. In a case library the stories are categorised and indexed. These stories in the case library could be accessed and could retrieve similar cases which are then for the perusal of the learner to enrich their knowledge. Taking these prior experiences as a base, the novice teachers can make informed decisions by adopting or adapting or even find another solution to the problem thus promoting Case Based Reasoning.

8089-8102

Authors: Manoj Praveen G. & Anoop Thomas Alex

This paper is a theoretical overview on four theories of classroom management. The paper explains in detail the meaning of classroom management by studying the theories propounded by B.F. Skinner (Operant Conditioning), William Glasser (Choice Theory), Froyen and Iverson (Schoolwide and Classroom Management) and L. Canter and M. Canter (Assertive Discipline). All these theories give distinct thoughts on the concept classroom management. After going through several studies and theories, it is distinct that components or dimensions of classroom management cannot be restricted to certain behaviour reinforcements, strategies, rules and consequences, management skills, etc. These theories will help a teacher identify various classroom management styles and adapt their principles into an eclectic theory and then implement in the classroom. Thus, giving teacher an opportunity to work efficiently to create a positive learning environment in the classroom.

8118-8125

Authors: Pramila Maruti Gaikwad & Arvind Shelar

Sex composition of population is one of the important biological composition of population. The proportion of males to females in a given population usually expressed as the number of the males per thousand. The knowledge of sex ratio is essential for the understanding the conditions of women in the society. A decline or low number of female population in the total population is strongly suggestive of the neglect of girl children, sex selective abortions and traditional attitudes of the society. The analysis of sex ratio is more important. It was using the census data of pune district and Maharashtra 1971 to 2011. In the 1981 the sex ratio of the India was 933 and 986 Maharashtra. In 1991 the sex ratio was 927 and 934 for India and Maharashtra. In 2001 the sex ratio was 933 and 922 for India and Maharashtra. In 2011 sex ratio was 940 and 929 for India and Maharashtra. The trend of the sex ratio was decline at the state level but in the district lead to higher sex ratio. The sex ratio of the study region is compared with Maharashtra state; district sex ratio is always higher than Maharashtra in some time.

8137-8143

Authors: Smita Phatak & Suhasini Bhujbal

According to J. P. Naik teacher education means an effective professional education system which can be modified traditional methods of teaching into dynamic methods and will initiate the teachers to the needed revolution in teaching and lay foundation for their future professional growth. The Education Commission (1964-66) discussed at length various issues related to teacher education. It recommended professionalization of teacher education, development of integrated programmes, comprehensive college of education and internship. The Education Commission says,” of all different factors which influence the quality of education and its contribution to national development, quality, competence and character of teachers are undoubtedly the most significant”. The major weaknesses have been successively pointed out by University Commission, Secondary Commission and Education Commission. It has been observed that the existing system of teacher education is rigid and static. Keeping in view the inadequacies of teacher education programme commission suggest some drastic changes starting from its objectives, content and methodology etc.

8153-8160

Authors: H. S. Vyas & Kumardatt Ashok Ganjre

The notion of satisfaction has been the focal point of interest in the understanding of human behavior. In academic literature satisfaction has been viewed from various branches of academics. Satisfaction has been used to indicate the ‗effectiveness of a marketing system‘ in economics, ‗social well-being‘ in sociology, and an individuals‘ ‗emotional feeling‘ in psychology). In analyzing behavior of consumers, understanding ‗satisfaction‘ has become an area of monumental interest and addressed by the researchers extensively in the last three decades. This paper aims at presenting a comprehensive account of the major paradigms of satisfaction research understanding of which is important for marketing personnel in strategy formulation to ensure customer satisfaction.

8168-8173

Authors: Prof. Sandhya Gihar & Mr. Devendra Kumar Mishra

Education is the process which prepares the individual for a productive, progressive, cultured and civilized life. The teacher occupies a central petition in the educational system. The National policy on Education (1986) admitted that no education system can rise above the quality of its teachers. However there is a wide gap between policy formulation and policy implementation. Teaching job may be demanding and involves heavy work load and controlling of unruly students which may result in felling of frustration. Looking towards the significance of job satisfaction in the present scenario, the investigator is keen to study the job satisfaction of secondary school teachers. The study was conducted using a quantitative survey research design. And it was conducted in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh. The teacher job satisfaction questionnaire (TJQ) was used to assess job satisfaction of Secondary school teachers. The study sampled 600 secondary school teachers. The results revealed no significant gender & locality and experiences differences in job satisfaction among secondary school teachers.

8181-8194

Authors: Mr. Vijay M. Gawas

The present research paper makes a modest attempt to analyze the impact of historical law of communidade system on tribal people in Goa. It endeavor is made to scrutinize the law from the angle of social, economic and political justice which is beneficial to the tribal community. The paper has outlined the history of origin of Gaunkari System, communidade system and governance in generating revenue in the state of Goa. In fact, this research paper deals with the Impact of the tribal community for after Codification of Gaunkary system into Code of Comunidades. For this purpose, the secondary data from the law books, articles, journals, newspaper etc. have been used.

8205-8212

Authors: S. R. Kandalgaonkar & Mrs. Jyoti Harchekar

Commerce education is a branch of higher education system in India, today more recognized as business education with globalization, adoption of membership of like WTO, BRIC organizations; the field of business education has to be adaptable with the changing world of business and industry. In order to retain the firm position in the field of higher education, to make business education student centric than system centric a study of opinions on experiential learning was felt essential. Viewpoints of senior faculty, policy makers and the expectations of student community give us an all-round perspective on experiential learning in business education. This research paper is based on this important topic.

8219-8233

Authors: Ravisha. G. M. 1 & H. Nagaraj

The highly sensitive issues of ecological concern needs are debated these days on an elevated note because we have one earth to live and earth to save, though the greater development in the field of environmental geography has been witnessed since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the subject has a very long history. The roots of this discipline can be traced in the works of the Greeks and Romans scholars works like Herodotus, Aristotle and Eratosthenes are replete with example of relationship between man and physical environment owing to modern economic monetization, materialism, exquisiteness, avariciousness, physical greediness which has become the order of the day the earth’s repositories is being depleted profoundly. Thus our divine planet is no longer the benign Mother Earth but a quarry for material utilization and over exploitation government of India. Urbanization is taking place at a faster rate in India. Population residing in urban areas in India, according to 1901 census, it was 11.4 percent. This cont increase to 28.58 percent according to 2001 census and crossing 30 percent as per 2011 census, starting at 31.16 percent. According to a survey by UN States, the World Population Report in 2007, by 3030, 40.76 percent of country’s population, Urbanization is expected to reside in urban areas. As per World Bank, India, along with China, Indonesia, Nigeria, and the U.S, will lead the world’s urban population surge by 2050. This research paper aims to highlight environmental planning sustainable and development in India challenges with special focus on environmental issues like air, water, land and noise pollution, problems of housing, traffic congestion, slums. The study reveals that rapid growth of population in the India and including small and large cites of India has resulted in deterioration of urban environment giving raise to shanty town and slums, heavy population concentration land use, problem of solid waste and pollution.

8237-8249

Authors: Ravisha. G. M. & H. Nagaraj

The present paper aims to analyse the total and sex-wise causes of dynamic growth and distribution of population. Population growth is inevitable outcome of the demographic transition, primarily as a result of high fertility and secondarily mortality declines and mobility in view of rapidly growing or population explosion. Growth of population is the change in the number in a particular area between two given points of time. As described in the preceding paper, the population of our ancestors, a few million years ago, was confined to Africa and numbered only in Lakh. By the time our ancestors invented agriculture, the information started passing from generation to generation. The transmission of knowledge about hunting, gathering and preparation of food helped in expansion of agriculture and growth of population. The growth of population was, however, not continuous after the agricultural Revolution. Civilization rose, flourished and disintegrated; periods of good and bad weather occurred; and famine and war took their toll. Despite fluctuations in the birth and death rates, agriculture permitted the existence not only of higher population densities, and settled village life, but also of large scale cooperative ventures, specialization of labour, development of crafts and social stratification, the growth and development of irrigation and the emergence of towns and cities concentrated of economic power in the hands of numerically small elite. The major turning point in the population growth came with the Industrial Revolution, led the systematization of production with the help of urban power-driven machine. At the time of Industrial Revolution, urban population increased rapidly, and living standards in new industrial towns were abysmal, especially for the poorer families. Families become as the unit of production, goods were produced for sale in regional, national and international markets. There occurred to migrate from rural to urban areas and the productivity per capita increased substantially. The impact of migration on population (dynamics) size and age structure of population has been studied. Existing studies have paid a great deal of attention to population growth and its social and economic implications.

8255-8261

Authors: Atul Kulkarni

IN MARATHI

8268-8274

Authors: Ashok Kumar

IN MARATHI

8281-8290

Authors: Manoj Kumar

IN MARATHI