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: Meeta Arora

The present study aims to find the effects of an organization on Mathematics Teaching. In the paper, the school is treated as an organization. The organizational elements of the school are being studied. These Elements are found to have an effect on mathematics teaching. Some organizational elements were considered problematic and the reasons for their problems were being asked. The study was conducted through admi nistering the questionnaires. The questions were probed in greater detail through interview.

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Authors: Shaikh Kashefa Anjum

The Objective of the Current study is to study the effect of concept attainment model and traditional method of teaching geometry on the geometric concept achievement. Being the conceptual subject geometry needs the special teaching methods. It has been felt that in spite of strenuous efforts of mathematics teacher, students fail to grasp the certain concepts of the subject which lead disinterest among students towards mathematics in general and geometry in particular. Experimental research method wa s used for present study. Tool used for the research self prepared geometric concept lesson transcripts of geometry and lesson plans of traditional method and for post test standardized ‘Geometric concept test’ by S.C. Gakhar. The present study reveals tha t there is a significant difference between concept attainment model (CAM) and traditional method on the achievement of students in understanding of geometric concepts. Of these methods concept attainment model is more effective than traditional method.

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Authors: Chaman Lal Banga

Teachers are an extremely important facet of any so ciety for a multitude of reasons. Teachers are the people who educate the youth of society who in turn become the leaders of the next generation of people. Teachers are the people who are teaching children and imparting knowledge upon them in their most im pressionable years, what these kids learn from their teachers at a young age will most likely stay with them in some facet for the rest of their lives. So, teachers certainly have a significant mark on the development of young children and even older child ren alike, as they are teaching them and helping them develop their knowledge so that they can go on in life and be responsible and productive members of society. Microteaching is a teacher training technique for learning teaching skills. It employs real t eaching situation for developing skills and helps to get deeper knowledge regarding the art of teaching. Microteaching can be practiced with a very small lesson or a single concept and a less number of students. It scales down the complexities of real teac hing, as immediate feedback can be sought after each practice session. Knowledge acquisition, skill acquisition, and transfer are the three different phases of microteaching. Describes the various phases of microteaching. Knowledge acquisition phase is the preparatory, pre - active phase, in which the teacher gets trained on the skills and components of teaching through lectures, discussion, illustration, and demonstration of the skill by the experts. In the interactive, skill acquisition phase, the teacher plans a micro - lesson for practicing the demonstrated skills. This paper highlights on microteaching as an efficient technique for learning effective teaching.

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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: Prakash Vir Singh

The Indian government has expressed a strong commitment towards education for all; however, India s till has one of the lowest female literacy rates in Asia. In 1991, less than 40 percent of the 330 million women aged 7 and over were literate, which means today there are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low level of literacy not only has a negative impact on women’s lives but also on their families’ lives and on their country’s economic development. Numerous studies show that illiterate women have high levels of fertility and mortality, poor nutritional status, low earning potential, and l ittle autonomy within the household. A woman’s lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well being of her children. For instance, a recent survey in India found that infant mortality was inversely related to mother’s educational level . Additionally, the lack of an educated population can be an impediment to the country’s economic development. The present research paper is focusing towards the same.

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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: 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: 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

Teaching mathematics is a complex enterprise. There are numerous factors that are bound to have an ef fect on Mathematics teaching. There is a need to look into the factors in greater detail. This would be effective if done from the teachers’ viewpoint. These viewpoints are studied through administration of questionnaires. These questionnaires are studied in detail. Interview was followed for better insight of the responses. The results are being analyzed qualitatively

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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