SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

9755-9763

Authors: J. K. Khuman

The aim of my paper is to deal with the literary as well as cultural representations of Indian women – almost from the very old age – that of the great epics the Mahabharat and the Ramayana and up to the modern day India. I also want to show up the trends attitudes and practices related to Feministic Criticism and Women Empowerment. At the same time it is also to expose the sentimental notions, angry oppositions and confrontations of the so called feminists apart from revealing stereotype and celluloid representations. I have used the illustrations from the learned literary figure, Somadatta Mandal, the first, the Documentary by Ananya Chatterjee Daughters of the 73rd Amendment in which the success stories of three different women leaders of different lands are described. The second a Bengali film Paromita and the third the a ward winning feature film Dahan, which proved to be very controversial for the stereotypical representation of man and Ananya‟s confrontation there on to reveal the hypocrisy and aggression of mere feminism. Moreover, I have also tried to show up the interrelatedness of caste, class and gender and the politics and exploitation by the dominant. I have illustrated this interrelatedness and hypocrisy by providing illustrations from Premchand, Sharadbabu and Arundhati Roy. The exploitation of women and patriarchal treatment expressed in some Bengali collections and the stories of modern day Punjabi writer Kartar Singh Duggal. Finally, exposing the aggressive feminism which by mere confrontation may harm the manwoman relationship and consequently the civilization, I have shown up the representations like Sita, Draupadi, Savitri, Mandodari, etc from our great ancient heritage. I have also covered examples from Toru Dutt‟s Ancient Ballads, like Savitri. At the end I have mentioned the lofty and sublime representations in our folklore from Dineshchandra Sen to Padmashree Dula Kag who has created some wonderful Dohas and Poems regarding mother in particular and women in general. His poem Rajpootani is the striking example of the „Shakti‟ or „Jagadamba‟ form of woman, wherein the Rajputani performs almost every role as an ideal, generous and dominating woman, as wife, as mother and as the queen. She doesn‟t hesitate even to drive her husband away, if he follows the corrupt path. I have ended my writing with the beautiful, exquisite,celebrated poem by a Gujarati poet Botadkar, who creates a wonderful and miraculous image of mother – the incarnation of extreme, ever flowing and overflowing affection

9771-9776

Authors: J. K. Khuman

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9789-9804

Authors: R. D. Singh & Tina Verma

Skills are necessary for success in this technical world. The present study examines the relationship of skills with the family environment of the technical students. Descriptive survey method has been used in this study. 300 technical students from Kumaun region were included using multistage stratified random sampling technique. Skills Measurement Scale developed by investigator and Family Environment Scale developed by Dr. Harpreet Bhatia and Dr. N. K. Chadha were used to collect the data. Pearson’s coefficient of correlation was used to analyze the data. Significant negative relationship of cohesion and organization dimension of family environment was found with generic, soft and non-technical skills of technical students. Significant positive relationship of expressiveness dimension of family environment was found with technical skills and attributes of technical students. Negative relationship of independence and control dimension of family environment was found with soft and non-technical skills of technical students.

9811-9815

Authors: M. P. Tripathi

Modern materialistic era is era of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG). Inclination of youths towards western life style and culture is natural. This inclination is not only limited to youths but for everybody also. In recent years increase in percentage of crimes committed by youths has created concerns on the government and society. Root cause of the problem lies in the quality of education we are providing to our children. Parents are putting more emphasis on materialistic education rather than evaluating them holistically whether they are ready to face challenges in their lives or not, neglecting all round development of child with moral values. Our curricula and syllabi are also inappropriate for teaching moral values and ethics to children. Parents, teachers, governments and societies should recognize the importance of value education in the life of an individual. In early childhood before going to school, it is responsibility of parents to incorporate essential human values in their wards. Once the children are admitted to the school it is expected that parents, society and teachers will jointly carry out their duties to teach them values for making them model individuals. Value Based Education is as an alternative to improve the schools’ deteriorating environment. Value Based Education has a positive impact on children’s well-being. Studies from different areas of a person’s life show that a specific aspect in life affects the other. This investigation aims to study and understand the relationship between Value Based Education and wellbeing of youths, society and nation.”

9822-9833

Authors: Atul Kumar

IN MARATHI

9843-9852

Authors: Mohan Bhimrao Kamble

The present study is concerned with Scheduled Caste (SC) include neobuddhist and its major focus on the development through the state and central governments with their policy implements .The Scheduled Castes Development Bureau, the Ministry implements Schedules Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) which is an umbrella strategy to ensure flow of targeted financial and physical benefits from all the general sectors of development for the benefit of Scheduled Castes. Under the strategy, States are required to formulate and implement Special Component Plan (SCP) for Scheduled Castes as a part of their Annual Plans by earmarking resources. In most discussion of progress of scheduled castes attention is focused almost exclusively on the programme of the Central Government. Yet state Governments have a major responsibility in the field and also incur large expenditures on their own programme of scheduled caste welfare. At present 32 States /UTs having sizeable SC population are implementing Schedules Caste Sub-Plan. Scheduled Caste, Schedules Caste Sub-Plan (SCSP) Special Component Plan (SCP).

9859-9863

Authors: Bramha Nand Mishra

NA

9868-9878

Authors: Amita Gupta & Shikha Mishra

IN MARATHI

9887-9891

Authors: Deepali Rani Sahoo

Children play a very vital role in nation building. It is quite necessary and desirable to protect and promote various safe guards to protect the children. It is an incontrovertible fact that there are various social evils with children. One of them is children labour. The child labour system is in existence in developing and underdeveloped countries. India is one of the countries where in large number of children below the age of 14 years are working under various organisations. It is a fact that if there is no proper distribution of work among the members of the society, then children will be automatically forced to do work for their survival. Unemployment of adult members of the particular family results into child labour. The law in Indian soil says that any child below age of 14 cannot be employed either in a factory or office or restaurant and India’s international business has been severely affected in many cases because child labours, violating human rights, have been used in some stage or the other in manufacturing, packaging a transport of those items. There is a large number of cases of export of ready-made garments, prawn and several other items from India has been rejected on grounds of child labour being used. child labour is frequently utilized in India in various places of production and service e.g., small scale industry, restaurant service, domestic aid, shopkeeper’s assistant, stone breaking, book binding, in fact in every house-hold industry.

9899-9903

Authors: Zakiya Sultana Hashim Khadri Zarzari

The present research is an attempt to study the effectiveness of Structure-Function Method as an Activity Based Method of Teaching Biological Sciences. The eight standard students studying in secondary schools of Bhatkal city constituted Population for the study.Out of this Population,a random sample of 35students formed the Control group and another random sample of 35 students formed the Experimental group. An Achievement test in Biological sciences constructed by the investigator was administered. The results showed that the performance of the students taught by Structure-FunctionMethod is better than that of the students taught by the Conventional method of teaching

9911-9915

Authors: Suchitra Sakhi Dinkar

IN MARATHI

9922-9930

Authors: Brajvir Singh

IN MARATHI

9938-9943

Authors: Shivangi Nigam & Asha Rani Arora

The present study has tried to explore the existential meaning of secondary school teachers IN relation to their gender and years of experience. A representative sample of 150 teachers from the secondary schools of New Delhi was randomly selected. A tool developed by the researchers was used to assess the existential meaning of the secondary school teachers. The study revealed that there was no significant difference between existential meaning of secondary school male and female teachers. However, contrasting results were found out for teachers with work experience of less than 10 years and more than 10 years and the study showed that there was a significant difference between the existential meaning of these groups. Significant difference was also not found between the existential meaning of male secondary school teachers with less than 10 years and more than 10 years as their work experience. There was a significant difference in the existential meaning of female secondary school teachers with less than 10 years and above 10 years of work experience.

9954-9960

Authors: Prasad Joshi

The present study is focused on comparison of achievement and retention of learning among secondary school students. The achievement test was administered to sample and after a time gap of 15 days retention test was administered. Achievement test itself used as a retention test. After experiment and data analysis it was observed that Retention is not uniform across all variables. Less Retention observed in terms the variables Knowledge, and Objective type questions. Retention was observed more in terms of Test Total scores, and among the variables Comprehension, Skill and Short Answer questions.

9971-9979

Authors: Nisha Chandel & Seema Chopra

The present study was undertaken to find out the relationship of spiritual values with cognitive capabilities, emotional intelligence and academic achievement of adolescents and influence of school type. A sample of 82 students from different Government and private schools in Hamirpr district of Himachal Pradesh was taken. Spiritual values were assessed with the help of Spiritual Values Scale by Nazam, Hussain, and Khan(2015), cognitive abilities were assessed by Cognitive Capabilities Test (prepared by the researcher), emotional intelligence was assessed with the help of Emotional Intelligence Scale developed by Singh and Narain (2014). Academic achievement scores were taken from the school records. The results revealed that there exists a significant relationship between spiritual values and memory, executive function and creativity dimensions of cognitive capabilities; understanding motivation, and empathy dimensions of emotional intelligence; and academic achievement. In addition to this significant differences were reported in academic achievement of Government and private school students. Private school students were reported to have better academic achievement than Government school students. While no differences were reported in Government and private school students on the variables cognitive capabilities and emotional intelligence.

9986-9991

Authors: Manda A. Gavit & S. R. Chaudhari

Tribal people in our country are living in isolation. They are inhabitants of thickly forested and inaccessible mountainous regions. Their social life is distinctive from the life of the nontribal. It is interesting to know how these people are living. What is their way of life? In view of this an attempt is made to study “Art” of Bhil tribe in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra. The main object of the study is to examine the relationship between environment and Bhil tribes. Through this study an attempt is also made to focus light on Art and Handicraft of Bhil tribe. The study is based on personal experience of the researcher and a detailed Field work. The study brings to the conclusion that the social, Art and Handicrafts characteristics of Bhil Community are typical and these are preserved as such from one generation to another as it is their identity. Such arts express their relationship with natural environment.

10001-10009

Authors: Narinder Singh & Sesadeba Pany

This research is focused on the elementary school teachers’ awareness, practice and problems related to continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) in Malwa region of Punjab. The data were collected from eight schools of the four districts i.e. two schools from each district of Malwa region of Punjab covering 38 elementary school teachers. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample for investigation. A self-constructed questionnaire having 44 items on awareness, practice and problems related to CCE was used for data collection. For analyzing the data collected from the sample, item-wise percentage analysis was done by the investigator. Findings of the study reveal that the majority of the teachers are aware about the pattern of CCE and they consider it helpful for the regular progress of the students. Elementary school teachers evaluate the scholastic aspect of the students in fixed time interval with the use of different types of test items in their school. Majority of teachers conduct the formative and summative assessments as per the scheme but very few teachers reported that they conduct summative assessments occasionally. Sometimes, teachers face implementation related problems of CCE like use of different techniques while evaluating scholastic aspects, distraction from teaching and overburden due to CCE, evaluation of socio-personal skills of students on five-point scale and maintenance of records of the students.

10021-10034

Authors: Subhash Singh

IN MARATHI

10042-10051

Authors: M. Thirunarayanasamy & Mr. P. Jayakumar

NA

10058-10080

Authors: Sailendra Bhuyan & Mrs. Punita Borpuzari Deori

Achievement test is of very important assessment tool to evaluate the student’s current level of knowledge and skill acquired from classroom instruction. This test is designed to evaluate the student’s level of achievement in a particular subject for a particular class prescribed under the board or the university. In other words, to assess how much the pupils have achieved the educational objectives in teaching learning process at the end of the course and if achieved then to what extent, it has been achieved. According to Webster Dictionary of Education (1989) academic achievement is the performance of the students in courses of their formal study in the school or institution of learning. Achievement tests are proved to be very helpful in various ways to the people who are involved in the field of education such as the teachers, the administrators, the planners, to the parents as well as for the students. The teacher very carefully develops and conduct achievement test in the class which enable the teacher to get an overall idea of the progress or the level of achievement of his students in the subject area. The teacher can determine the pupil’s strength and weakness in the subject area. So, based on this the teacher can take necessary remedial instructional strategies for the betterment of the pupil’s progress. In the same time, it also provides feedback for the teaching efficiency of the teacher.

10093-10097

Authors: Mr. Govind Singh

Have you ever thought that critical thinking can help you to be objective? It actually can. To appreciate this, bear in mind the fact that whenever you are engaged in critical thinking, you are not going to respond to something instantaneously. Instead, when you hear something, whether it is a question or a statement, you are going to ensure you heard it right. Then you will proceed to assess what it could actually mean in the context it was said. Only then will you be set to make a decision depending upon whether it is something you can believe or relate to or not. What you will eventually see is that after evaluating all the different sections of what you have listened to, and you have had opportunity to consolidate the different meanings, the conclusion you come to is normally one that is reasonable and objective.

10107-10113

Authors: Ritu Tripathi Chakravarty

There have been a lot of quality improvement initiatives by ministry of higher education. Many changes have occurred in the systems and processes but still there is lots of gap between the objectives framed and objectives achieved. There are many challenges like dropout rate of girls, infrastructural issues, financial deficits, students’ unrest, and teachers’ commitments which still needed to be addressed. Edward W Deming is known as father of Quality. He has given many corrective action plans for continuously improving the systems. His philosophy which is known as Deming’14 point Philosophy provides quality enhancement ideas for improvement. In the present paper researcher had tried to identified followings problems in Indian higher education and they can faced by adopting Deming’s 14 point Philosophy of Systems Improvement

10123-10129

Authors: Mrs. R. Saraswathy

Every individual has its own natural or habitual pattern ofacquiring and processing information in learning situations.The common ways or patterns by which people learn areknown as their learning styles.Learning styles are essential elements for students’ as learning styles have its strong influence on the achievement of a subject. The objective of the study is to investigate the relationship between learning styles and student’s achievement. Suitability of students learning styles in the mathematics subjects will be more effective and provide a positive impact on students’ academic if the teaching process and learning tailored to students' learning styles. The study included the categorical variablesgender and medium of instruction.187 students from various Government, Government Aided and Private schools in and around Salem district was involved. Normative survey method was adopted and stratified sampling technique was employed for the study. Learning styles scale standardized by Peter Honey and Alan Mumford (2006) was used. It consisted of 80 items.The data collected were subjected to the statistical technique like Percentage analysis, t – test and correlation.The t -test showed no difference between learning styles based on gender. Pearson correlation analysis showed significant relationship between learning styles and academicachievement of student.

10136-10150

Authors: Sushma. R.

The Present study is intended to test the usage of internet among first grade college teachers in this digitization era. In general there is a notion that the degree college teachers not use computers and internet for teaching thus to test whether those teachers are aware of using internet this study was chosen the whole study comprises 7 objectives but the present paper comprises only two objectives because to avoid length of the paper. Present study was consisted 128 teachers from 10 colleges from Belagavi city, hence the purposive sample was employed for the study. The items were constructed by researchers and established validity of it from the 30 experts and data were collected. The main finding of the study is, in overall view most of the teachers aware of usage of internet but if we get into the depth of the study it is found that still there is lot of lack and stagnation in having knowledge of Internet and use of it among Degree College teachers.

10161-10169

Authors: Bashir ahmad wagay

A sound electoral system in general and free and fair elections in particular are the lifeline of modern democratic states .The Indian democratic system even though sustained from last 68 years is not properly working and the common man feels that the main problem lies in the electoral system among other problems.post independent India as a whole has gone for elections first time in 1951-52 for electing members of Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies. It was really a mammoth (like 8th wonder of world) exercise to conduct elections in a newly born democracy loaded with universal adult franchise much against the precedence set by other liberal democracies like USA , UK etc .The exercise of simultaneous elections continued up to 1967 with exceptions like Kerala and Orissa .The cycle of five years was however disrupted when the union govt under the provisions of so called “safety valve” provision of Art 356 dissolved the legislative assemblies in 1968-69.In global electoral politics, the concept of simultaneous elections has emerged as the best possible alternative to the current framework of frequent election.

10182-10189

Authors: Bharati Chand

This paper explores the different aspects of use of e-content for development of digital learning. In the present educational world, Information and Communication Technology has great role to play in planning for teaching and learning to empower school education.It is the need of the hour to develop e-content to empower school education through digital learning. The new and modern education system involves modern information and communication technologies in the teaching-learning process for teaching the 21st Century students.

10194-10200

Authors: Mukesh Kumar Chandrakar

One of the greatest and inevitable challenge that higher education teachers facing is determining most effective teaching learning methods and strategies for the adult learner as the learner are over loaded with the so much information and knowledge due to easy access and availability of information through internet. Learners have new demands of knowledge and skills. To meet their demands, it is essential for higher education teachers to understand their needs, interest, and attitude, societal and global demands. Understanding and assessing higher education learners and their involvement in learning can help to design best way of transacting curriculum. In teacher education the demand of new and effective strategies and methods of transacting curriculum is obvious and teacher educators faces great challenge to meet out their demands. To meet these demands, many higher education teachers and teacher educators are using active learning pedagogies like Cooperative learning or team based learning. Active learning in the context of higher education is often a social and informal process where ideas are casually exchanged through student involvement and intellectual and interpersonal activities (Menges and Weimer, 1996). Bonwell and Eison (1991) conceptualize active learning as a process involving students not only “doing” things, but analyzing what they are doing. Cooperative learning is one of the most commonly used forms of active pedagogy. Taking place through an individual’s interaction with his or her environment and peers, cooperative learning is largely based on the idea that students learn through social contexts (Adams and Hamm, 1994). In the present paper the author has developed and used a new approach called Cooperative Mixed Group Team Teaching (CMGTT) for transacting teacher education curriculum in teacher education programme and the paper focuses on concept of CMGTT, its elements and steps of the approach.

10211-10221

Authors: Sarita & Ms. Kanta

Mental health defined as a state of well-being in which every individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to his or her community (WHO, 2007). The purpose of the study was to reveal the effect of Mental Health among post graduate student in relation to their Emotional Intelligence & Social Maturity. This was an empirical research with a sample of 200 students studying into college selected randomly from Jind city of Haryana. The study was conducted through descriptive survey method. Emotional Intelligence test by Zainuddin and Ahamed (2008) & Mental Health Battery by Singh & Gupta (2000) & social maturity scale by Srivatava. Two-way Anova was applied to find out the effect of Emotional Intelligence, Social Maturity & gender on Mental Health. The finding revealed: 1) There is significant main & interaction effect of emotional intelligence and gender on mental health of post graduate students. 2) There is no significant main & interaction effect of social maturity and gender on mental health of post graduate students.

10230-10237

Authors: Mukesh Kumar Chandrakar & Kishan Kumar Ratre

IN MARATHI

10243-10253

Authors: Geethanjali. K & Prabakaran. B

Measles, mumps, and rubella are diseases caused by viruses. The viruses are easily spread through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. You can become infected when you breathe in air or touch a surface contaminated with virus. The viruses can also be spread through contact with an infected person’s saliva such as by sharing food, drinks or cigarettes or by kissing. The objective of the study is to find the level of knowledge and attitude of students and their parents about measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) Immunization. All the formulated hypotheses are made in null form for statistical testing. The survey method and simple random sampling technique are adopted. Samples are taken 200 students and 200 parents of same students from various government schools, government aided schools and private schools. Knowledge test and attitude scale about MMR Immunization is used in the study. Karl Pearson’s Product- Moment Coefficient of correlationis used for the interpretation. Findings of the study are (i) High school students’ knowledge and their parents’ knowledge about measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) Immunization are low. (ii) High school students’ attitude and their parents’ attitude about measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) Immunization are high.

10262-10269

Authors: Mahadevan. A & T. Ravichandran

The main purpose of this study is to find out the social and personal adjustment among higher secondary school students with relation to employment status of their mothers in Pudukkottai Educational District. This research is under taken with a view to examining the relationship with social adjustment and personal adjustment of higher secondary school students with a sample size 250. The investigation is analyzed by the descriptive analysis and differential analysis. The findings of the study show that there is a high personal and social adjustment of higher secondary school students in relation to the employment status of their mothers. The findings also revealed that personal adjustment of higher secondary school female students are better than male students. But there was no significant difference between male and female students in social adjustment. The type of managements of schools has the same nature of personal and social adjustment among higher secondary school students with respect to employment status of their mothers. This study might enable teachers and parents to look for ways of enhancing personal and social adjustment among the students from higher secondary school.

10278-10283

Authors: Priya. S & R. Kalaiselvi

The purpose of the study was to find out the problem in learning Tamil among ninth standard students. A questionnaire was administered in the form of normative survey to 200 IX standard students selected randomly from various high and higher secondary schools in Pudukkottai District, to collect their problem towards learning Tamil language. The collected data was statistically analyzed. The results revealed that there is a higher level of problem in leaning Tamil among ninth standard students. The findings also show that urban and rural students do not differ in their problem in learning Tamil. But there was a significant difference exists between male and female and management of schools. Hence it was concluded that more classroom activities in the study of Tamil enhance pupils‟ to learn Tamil.

10292-10298

Authors: Selvarani. C & T. Ravichandran

The purpose of this research is to find out the level of Awareness about the global warming among the higher secondary school students of Pudukkottai district of Tamil Nadu state. Descriptive survey design was employed to find out the awarenessof students. The sample consists of 250 students including both boys and girls. Tool was developed by the researcher to collect the data from the sample. Descriptive statistics, t-test, are techniques used to analyze the data .The result shows that the level of awareness about global warming among higher secondary school students is high. There exists a significant difference between boys and girls students in their awareness about the global warming. Therewas significant difference found with respect to urban and rural higher secondary school students about awareness in global warming. Urban students are better in awareness than rural students. There exists significant difference between government and private school students in awareness aboutglobal warming.

10308-10313

Authors: S. Surendrabalu & M. Anbuchezhian

A present study deals with information and communication technology awareness among teacher educators in colleges of education. Survey method is used for the presentstudy. The sample consists of 100 teacher educators in colleges of education. The tool used is information and communication awareness scale ( ICTAS).The study reveals there is significant the awareness on information and communication technology of teacher educators (sex, locality of teacher educators, and locality of institution, type of family) certain individual and institutional related variables in the colleges of education in Pudukkottai district

10314-10324

Authors: Ashok Dansana & Sheetala Prasad Anan

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10332-10337

Authors: Achintya Mahapatra

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10346-10357

Authors: Shweta Tripathi

'Commitment' is a powerful word. Teachers’ Commitment is the key factor that influences the teaching- learning process. It is the psychological identification of the individual teacher with the learner, the subject matter and the objectives of teaching. Some teachers see their commitment as part of their professional identity, it defines them and their work and they 'get a lot of enjoyment from this' (Elliott and Crosswell, 2001). Other teachers’ feel the demands of teaching to be significant, requiring great personal investment and view it as a job that can 'take over your life' (cited in Nias, 1981). These teachers often limit their commitment and their engagement with the school, as a means of survival. In some cases, these teachers choose to leave the profession altogether. No matter what the age is, the role of a teacher cannot be underestimated. Hence, things that affect the performance of a teacher, and in turn, the quality of education. At present it is felt that there is a decline in the quality of teaching. It is high time for empirically testing and analyzing the interface between commitment among teachers and their performance. It is indeed, the need of the hour. The present study explored the pervasive, yet often elusive, construct of commitment in educational environment setting.

10369-10381

Authors: Sandesh Kadam & Bhagwan Balani

Concentration serves as one such method for stimulating new synaptic connections in the brain. By practicing concentration, one can improve the strength and functioning of their brain while also changing its functionality. The main aim of the experimental research was to ascertain the effect of Pyrobrain Concentration Method on Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students. The data was collected from 820 students of Mumbai and Sangli District. The researchers used the QuasiExperimental Pretest- posttest Non-equivalent group design. The sampling purposive sampling technique has been used for this study. These findings indicate that the gain scores of experimental and control groups differ significantly. It can thus be inferred that pyrobrain concentration method has helped to develop academic achievement in the students of standard X of the experimental group. The ω 2 estimate on variable academic achievement is 58.60%. The contribution of pyrobrain concentration method in the development of academic achievement was found to be 58.60%. Thus it can be concluded that the pyrobrain concentration method has helped to enhance academic achievement among X standard students of experimental group.

10389-10401

Authors: Snigdha Kadam & Bhagwan Balani

The smart board technology is a way to provide quality education to these students in terms of knowledge, skill and values. S. Hennessy (2011) explored that interactive white board technology opens up opportunities for learners to generate, modify, and evaluate new ideas, through multimodal interaction along with conversation. The aim of the study was to find out impact of smart board technology on learning behavior of secondary school students. The data was collected from 900 students of the secondary schools of STD VII, VIII and IX of SSC, ICSE & CBSE boards of western suburbs of Mumbai district. The findings of the study revealed that there is positive impact of smart board technology on the learning behaviour of secondary school students. From the observations, it can be concluded that the impact of smart board technology on learning behaviour of secondary school students of STD VII, VIII and IX of CBSE board is better than that of ICSE board.

10408-10415

Authors: Bhausaheb Mahiras

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10424-10431

Authors: Ms. Neha Gupta

In India, there are many families who save money on monthly basis from their income to make their future more secure. Money kept aside to meet the future need is called savings. Investments of savings help them to meet their long term needs and larger financial goals. The main reason why people refrain from investing is that there is some amount of risk attached to it. The higher the risk, the higher is the return on investment and investing smartly can multiply their savings. For investments there are many financial instruments that are available in India where the investor can invest to get the best returns. Choosing the right type of instrument is very essential. The Indian financial market consists of mainly three pillars i.e. equity, debt and derivatives. Every category has its own importance in the development of financial market. A financial instrument is a document or contract that can be traded in a market, which represents an asset to one party and a liability to the other. The purpose of the study is to know about various financial instruments which are available for investments in India. This paper provides a brief description of all of these.

10439-10451

Authors: Sundari Vishwanathan

The present paper explains the concept of ‘three realities’ according to Viśiṣṭādvaita philosophy, expounded in the 17th century treatise named Yatīndramatadīpikā. The work faithfully brings out the teachings of tattvatraya by Rāmānuja, in a summarised manner and is considered as the authentic work inViśis̜ṭādvaita tradition. On the basis of the textual study, it has been concluded that knowledge of the three fundamental realities i.e. tattvatraya is very essential as far as Viśiṣṭādvaita philosophy is concerned as liberation dawns on the embodied soul only after their precise knowledge.

10459-10469

Authors: Satish Kumar Kalhotra

The present study was made an attempt to find out find significant interaction between emotional intelligence and sex with self-esteem as dependent variable among adolescents.The researcher employed 250 samples stratified random sampling was used for selecting 250 samples for the present study. Self Esteem Inventory by Dr. Stanley Cooper smith and Emotional Intelligence Inventory by Dr.S.K MANGAL was used for collecting the data. The findings reveal that there is no significant interaction between emotional intelligence and sex among adolescent students with self esteem as the dependent variable.

10482-10487

Authors: Meeta Arora

The present study is a part of research of development of Personal Practical Knowledge of twenty preservice studying in a Preservice Teacher Education Programme. The study attempted to study how image of preservice teachers formed a major part of her Personal Practical Knowledge. The study was conducted on one preservice teacher studying B.El.Ed Programme. Narratives were constructed using variety of resources, drawings, metaphors, interviews, observations, interviews. It was found that image has a practical as well as personal aspect which coloured the teaching actions of preservice teachers. Implications for teachers and teacher education is also indicated.

10495-10506

Authors: Balbir Singh Jamwal

Human being is the best creation of God. Every human being quite different to other human being. Nobody is similar to other. Even their problems are different. Every human being having difference in the sense of physical, mental, social, economical, emotional to the others. Education is considered the third eye to meet the challenges of life. Every person having not equal mind to get the equal education .In this paper, an attempt has been made to focus on importance of ethics and values in higher education. Mahatma Gandhi has rightly said that education should be for the mind, heart and hands. Swami Vivekananda has emphasized on character formation, sentrength of mind is increased, intellect is expounded and by which one can stand on his own feet. Without ethics and values higher education is meaningless. In the higher education students are matured. The growth and development of the society totally depends upon on the ethics and values. Wilston Churchill has rightly said aim of higher should be wisdom, not trade, character, not intellectualitiesEthics and values of any society change the destiny of that society. In the conclude form we can say that higher education is meaningless without good ethics and good positive values. The writer have not hope, but full faith this paper would be very helpful for the stakeholder to focus on ethics and values and understanding the great importance in the higher education and taken steps to develop.

10513-10522

Authors: Smt. G.R. Diwatar & Nagappa P. Shahapur

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10531-10539

Authors: Ramesh S. Mangalekar

Indian Nation State has completed more than six decades of independence. After independence our planners have focused on building large infrastructural projects to accelerate the economic development to fulfill the larger objective of inclusive growth by removing poverty, unemployment and inequality. However in India development and displacement are considered as correlates process. The infrastructure development projects have the unintended consequences of impoverishment. M. M. Cernea, a sociologist, who has researched development-induced displacement and resettlement for the world bank, points out that being forcibly ousted from one's land and habitat carries with it the risk of becoming poorer than before displacement, since a significant portion of people displaced do not receive compensation for their lost assets, and effective assistance to reestablish themselves productively. He has identified eight interlinked potential risks related to development-induced displacement. The major impoverishment risks such as: landlessness, joblessness, homelessness, marginalization, morbidity, food insecurity, restricted access to common property resources (CPR) and social disarticulation. The present paper attempts to understand the socio-economic impact of the population displaced by the construction of such large projects. More particularly this paper is focused on how development-induced displacement leads poverty and inequality in the society. This present paper has been prepared mainly by using the secondary sources of data like unpublished thesis, published books and reports on the development, displacement and rehabilitation. Development-induced displacement and rehabilitation has not seen as a “development opportunity” (Mathur and Marsden 1998), and this in itself is questionable, it will need radical change. This includes the need to avoid displacement and ensure that it is minimized. The entire process must have the provisions to include the full participation of displaced people in decisionmaking processes of developmental project, resettlement and rehabilitation

10550-10554

Authors: Shri. Aher Chintamani Keshav & Prof. Pagare P. B.

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10579-10588

Authors: Gitte Madhukar Raghunath

Agriculture still plays a crucial role in India’s economic development. About two-third of India’s population is, by and large, dependent on agriculture and allied activities. The development of agriculture and allied sectors is necessary to achieve the objectives of equitable and inclusive growth with social justice. Agricultural development depends upon the availability of basic infrastructure such as power, roads, railways, irrigation, credit, marketing and warehousing facilities, communication and telecommunication facilities. The government launched various nationwide and time bound programmes and schemes for sustainable development of agriculture. National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture (NMSA) is one of the eight missions launched under the National Action Plan on Climate Change. The NMSA aims at promoting sustainable agriculture through 17 deliverables and focuses on 10 key dimensions of agriculture. These dimensions were embedded during 12th Plan into missions or programmes through the restructuring and convergence. Major components of NMSA are: Rainfed Area Development, Soil Health Management, Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana, Sub-Mission on Agro-forestry, Integrated Nutrient Management, Soil Health Management, Balanced Use of Fertilisers, Soil Health Card Scheme, organic farming, Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana, Development for North Eastern Region, Natural Resource Management Development of Management Information System, Watershed Development Fund, World Bank Assisted Projects, Sodic Land Reclamation and Development Project, Crop Diversification Project in Himachal Pradesh and Reclamation of Problem Soils. Due to government support and provision of adequate funds, the progress of National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture has been satisfactory to achieve the objective of promoting sustainable agriculture.

10595-10603

Authors: Mitra Mondal

Fireworks industries are more hazardous than compared to other industries. Fire and explosion are common causes of occurring accident. But still the use of firecracker is related with much celebration like Diwali, marriage, festive and other occasions. Nangi is the third largest firework industry after Sivakasi and Champahati in India. In recent years, the Calcutta High Court has banned the sale of fire cracker as this fire cracker creates the environmental pollution. Therefore, the industry is shocked over the high court banning sale of cracker and make the seller and customer lose confidence in sale and purchasing products. The present paper attempts to highlight the present market scenario and the problems faced by seller and customer and also suggest some remedial measures to overcome the problems.

10608-10615

Authors: Priyadarshani B. More

The basin characteristics such as basin relief, size, shape, drainage density etc. play an important role in the generation of floods. Drainage basins are the fundamental units of the fluvial landscape. The term morphometry is used in several disciplines to mean the measurement and analysis of form characteristics. In geomorphology it is applied to numerical examination of landform, which may be more properly termed geomorphometry. This morphometry is essential because every drainage basin unit differs in shape, size, area, relief and gradient from other basins. If these features can be measured using some form of mathematical analysis, then it is possible to describe accurately the morphology of a region.

10624-10637

Authors: Ms. Kavita & (Mrs.) Sarita Dahiya

In the regulatory processes through which an individual motivates and gets achievement, self-efficacy beliefs perform key position. It is most important predictor in teacher education regarding use of computer and adopting in their teaching. Keeping this in mind, this present study was undertaken to find out the effect of multimedia package on self-efficacy of prospective teachers in relation to their academic stream. Pre-test post-test quasi experimental research design was adopted in which 60 prospective teachers selected from college of education of Rohtak using random sampling technique on the basis of varied academic stream (science, commerce, arts) out of which 30 prospective teachers were taught through multimedia formed as experimental group (EG)and 30 prospective teachers were taught through conventional method of teaching formed as control group (CG). To measure self-efficacy of prospective teachers, investigator applied standardized tool ofMathur & Bhatnagar’s Self -Efficacy Scale (SES-MGBR) (2012). Lesson plans and formative assessment developed through multimedia packagefor doing teaching learning process in experimental group for nine weeks only. At the end of the experiment, self-efficacy pre-test, post-test and mean gain score was computed. Then, data were subjected to analyzed by using ANOVA and t-test to determine the performance by comparing the mean scores. Results revealed that prospective teachers who are taught through multimedia instructional method show significant increase in their self-efficacy than the prospective teachers who received instructions through conventional method of teaching. Further science stream prospective teachers(Sc), commerce stream prospective teachers (Co), arts stream prospective teachers (Ar) groups did not show much difference in their mean gain self-efficacy after the experiment treatment. There was no significant interaction effect of Instructional treatment and academic stream on mean gain self-efficacy scores of prospective teachers. In conclusion, this study had proven that teaching through multimedia instructional package enhance the prospective teachers’ self-efficacy.