SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

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Authors: Haider - e - Karrar

Kerala, a western coastal state is located on the southernmost tip of India. It stretches from no rth to south along the coastline of 580 km with a width of 35 to 120 kms. It lies between 74* 51` E to 72* 22` E Longitudes and 8*18` N to 12*48` N Latitudes. It covers an area of 38863 sq km which is about 1.18% of the total area of India. In Kerala, 28.9 0% land area is covered with forest which is about 2.3% of national average forest cover. Its natural beauty and exquisite landscape which attract the tourist of India and abroad. Landscape is covered with coconut palms, paddy fields, banana plantation, te a plantation are looking like green blanket and pleasing atmosphere throughout the year provides best sites for the ecotourism i.e. Thenmala, Bhoothan Kettu, Peruvannamoozhy, Thekkady, Nelliampathy, Konni, Kumbalangi, Kuruva, Thatikkad, Poovar, etc.

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Authors: Jubraj Khamari

n the present study an attempt has been made to find out the difference (intra and inter) in the Perceptions of the different categories of respondents of the two states under study regarding the M.Ed. curriculum design as relevance on the basis of experience and experti se of the sample respondents. The responses of the respondents have been collected with the help of a Pre - designed questionnaire reflecting the qualitative aspects and comprehensive level of prospects of M.Ed. curriculum based on certain specific Parame ters (8 items) considered for the present study. The scale consists of 8 items each having 4 alternatives such as strongly agree (1), agree (2) disagree (3), strongly disagree (4). The mean score of each item could range from 1 to 4 where 1 indicates stron gly agree and 4 indicates strongly disagree (i.e. dissatisfied)

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Authors: Vandana Singh

This research investigated the effectiveness of inquiry Training Model over traditional teachi ng method in teaching chemistry at IX grade level. A total of 120 students participated in the study. The study was designed t o prepare study material for teaching chemistry for class IX using inquiry training model , study the effectiveness of inquiry trai ning model on academic achievement of students and compare the academic achievement of students studying through inquiry training model & traditional method for teaching chemistry. The researcher selected the two groups randomly where each comprising 60 s tudents & were labelled as experimental group & Control group ..The students of control goup were taught with traditional method while the students of experimental group were taught with inquiry training model. The pre test was administered to students in both the groups before teaching commenced and post test was administered after the teaching in both the groups. It was found that the calculated value of mean of Post test of control group is 12.55, standard deviation is 4.38 & the mean of Post test of exp erimental group is 17.46 and standard deviation is 5.88.Result shown that there is a statistical significant effect of Inquiry Training Model over conventional teaching method on academic achievement of students. It was observed that the students taught wi th Inquiry training method performed better than the students taught with traditional method

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Authors: Namesh Kumar and Kuldip Kaur Grewal

Mental health an d physical health are correlated with each other. First of all parents should give due attention towards the adolescents. Teacher should also pay healthy role to provide moral values among adolescents. Besides family factor socio - cultural factors also effe ct mental health. The negative impact of mass media and wrong cultural values affect mental health especially of the adolescent. It needs serious intervention on the part of government and responsible people of the society also. As healthy mind resides in healthy body so emphasis should be laid on to intricate values healthy activities in such school so that the adolescents can never delineate or alienate towards wrong side.

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Authors: Ved Prakash

Education is that process of development which consist the passage of human being from infancy to maturity, the process whereby he adapts himself gradually in various way to his physical & spiritual environment. A value is a belief that something is good and worthwhile. It defines what is worth having and worth striving for. The students of value orientated constitution aim at comple te development of human personality. Its purpose is to increase efficiency and happiness of human being. Unfortunately we see non value based education is directed to get a job or service only. That is what most people believe to be the purpose of educatio n. Parents too look to education as the means for enabling their wards to get fined into some career. So, to eradicate this problem and to establish human values, the Stance Rules, the Art of Living, Meditation, Geeta classes, Yagna and Yoga classes helps a great deal in reducing Machiavellianism i.e. a tendency of manipulating others for his own purpose & in increasing selfless idea. Hence Education is extremely necessary for man. It makes him a true harmonious and live life orderly. It leads to self - Enli ghten and self realization. No good life is conceivable without value - oriented education. This leads to fulfillment of Evolutionary role in man & in life

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Authors: Mrs. Amitha Rao

The theory of nonlinear gas dynamic waves or shock waves plays a vital role in the understanding the most of mathematical, biological, and engineering sciences. The solutions of governing non linear partial differential equations (PDEs) of shock waves are used to study the flow field of various nonlinear p henomena, f or e x a mpl e , sup er son i c f lows, e x plosions, ear thqu a k e s, piston motion, s u r fac e of a st a r , e tc. While consi d era b le p r o g re ss h a s b ee n m a de in the shock wave re s ea r c h on traditional a ppli ca tions like aerospace engineering, the research in multi disc iplinary applications such as a g r i c ultu r e, industry a nd medical s c i e n c e s is relatively new and still needs to be done. This paper highlights some interdisciplinary applications of shock wave technology in medical, industry and agricultural areas.

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Authors: Poulami chakraborty

The purpose of this paper is to maintain the vie w through analysis that the ethical value judgments are nonsense. The paper is about what might be called the Philosophical tradition of ethics and Wittgenstein opposition to that tradition. My purpose is to elucidate how this conception of ethical judgmen ts is in itself a sufficient reason for regarding them as nonsense. Wittgenstein claim in the ‘Tractatus Logico - Philosophicus’ that there can be no ethical propositions. Wittgenstein thought that ethical value judgments are absolute in the sense that their correctness. They does not depend at all on how things are in the world. Absolute judgment of value cannot be rational or irrational, reasonable or unreasonable. The argument behind this concept is that the value is not arbitrary or accidental. In order t o support that interpretation, I consider passages from the 1929 lecture on ethics. This read us to a reappraisal of the relevance of the Tractarian project of showing that ethical sentences cannot make sense.

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Authors: Vijay Kumar Grover ,

The paper attempts to conceptualize and analyze the concept of intellectual inertia due to absence of a genuine definition. The term is less prevalent in education literature, rather crystalizing through internet based discussions, but of significant value. Intellectual inertia is an analogy of a physics entity known as inertia of matter. In tellectual inertia can be individual as well as collective in nature. In an educational institution both individual as well as collective intellectual inertia operate. Like inertia of matter intellectual inertia is also a neutral entity which can be work f or and against an educational institution. Paper elaborates when intellectual inertia can be used as a friend and avoided to become foe for an institution. Finally possible approaches to use intellectual inertia in favor of an educational institution are elaborated followed by tools could be used in these strategies. Paper is a thought provoking effort to theorize the effectiveness of an educational institution by capturing the minds in terms of intellectual inertia.

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Authors: R. Gokul Raj and S. Nirmala Devi

The main objective of this investigation is to find out the level of acquisition of S cience Process Skills and whether there is any significant difference exists in the dimensions of Science Process Skills of high school students with respect to few personal variables. For the purpose of this investigation the researcher has followed normative survey method. Sample consists of 1000 IX th standard students distributed evenly from5 districts of Tamil Nadu (includes boys [466] and girls [534] both Tamil and English medium students) from government, government aided and private schools. Samples were selected using random sampling techniques . The Science Process Skills Inventory was constructed and validated by the researcher used for this investigation. Collected data were analyzed using appropriate statistical techniques. The major findings of the research show that there is very low positi ve correlation (0.230) between the science process skills and achievement in science among high school students.

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Authors: S. Kispotta and Mr. Kalpana Kanwar

The authors intend to convey the message to the readers through this paper that the students residing in the hostel for their studies, have a very poor economical background, hailing from remote areas/villages. The government through this scheme has taken up a very positive step to improve the c ondition of these students. The pilot result of the study has been depicted in this research paper.

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Authors: Sendhil, V. and Kannappan, R.

Personality traits are long lasting personal characteristics that influence the one’s perception and thoughts and guide actions under various conditions. The present study a imed to investigate the effect of yoga with psychological intervention on personality of students in the age group of 11 to 13 years. For the purpose of investigation 120 students from 6th, 7th and 8th standards from two different schools were randomly ass igned into experimental group (n - 60) and control group (n - 60). In the Pre - post control design, the experimental group was exposed to yoga with psychological intervention to improve their personality traits. The control group was not exposed to the training for the entire period. The teachers rated the School Behavior Checklist for the children (SCHOBL) at before, after and follow up assessments of both groups, besides collecting socio demographic variables. The intervention focused on enhancing their person ality traits such as extraversion, attitude towards school work, agreeableness, emotional stability and openness of the students. The yoga intervention was conducted for a period of six months covering a total of 40 sessions. The psychological approach inc luded counseling sessions which were conducted one to one and one to group for taking right decisions. The results have shown that the experimental group had significantly high scores on personality such as extraversion, attitude towards school work, agree ableness, and emotional stability when compared to the control group. The experimental group maintained the effectiveness and had significant changes in overall score of the scale at follow - up assessment. The yoga combined with psychological intervention i s effective in increasing the personality of school going students.

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Authors: Meeta Arora

Mathematical language is an essential component in mathematics classrooms. The present study aims to find out the problem s faced by secondary school teachers in regard to teaching language of mathematics. The results show that teachers do face problems in teaching mathematics. Teachers are being interviewed to find out the reasons and areas of the problems faced by them. I mplications for further study are drawn for the curricular development and for teacher education programmes .

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Authors: MOHD. ZUBAIR KALES

Jammu And Kashmir State is full of beautiful surrounding. The state is famous for its scenic beauty and unique culture. But at the same time the state is surrounded with some inter - national border and the people living in border areas come across with varied socio - cultural as well as academic complex ities leading to some adjustment problems. It is generally observed that the people living in the border areas are better prepared to face any problematic situation of life related to adjustment. Various studies conducted on characteristics of people livin g in border areas have shown that the population living in border area is significantly better in life managing skills and other desirable abilities to enjoy successful life

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Authors: Satish Chand Bhadwal and Naveen Kumar Mokta

The present study focussed on studying the variable of truancy in relation to non - verbal intelligence among different group s of high school students. The groups were formed on the basis of gender and place of habitat (urban or rural) of the students. The sample included 640 students taken from twenty schools situated in four districts of Himachal Pradesh. For measuring Non - Verbal Intelligence of the students included in the sample, Standard Progressive Matrices developed by Raven, Court, and Raven (1977) was used in the present study. The results of the study were not uniform in favour of truant or non - truant groups of stud ents and necessitate the replication of the study on a larger sample

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Authors: Mr. Pardeep Thakral

Communication and information are at the heart of educational process. Information and communication technology has plays very important role in education i.e. informal and formal education. Information and communication Technologies (ICTs) have been utilized by education since their inception, but they have been massively present in schools only since the early 1980s. Dev eloped countries have applied them to K - 12 education for variety of reasons, most of which are still valued today, although in many cases they have remained unfulfilled exceptions. In education ICT is used as a combination of various technologies ranging from simple technology like print based communication to online communication. Its use encompasses most aspects of educational operations though the major emphasis has been put forth to initiate the use of computers based technologies into the existing te chnique learning processes not many efforts have been made for providing computer literacy / skills and training teachers. Unless it is ascertained that the teachers and learners have the right attitude and aptitude to use the new technologies, situations are not going to change. At present, though there has been a significant expansion of use of computers and related technologies much is yet to be achieved