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Authors: E. Dhivyadeepa, Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education, Department of Education (SDE), Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

The study enlightens the impact of Aggressive Behaviour on Academic Achievement at standard IX. Objectives of the study: [i] To find out the relationship between Aggressive Behaviour and Academic Achievement. [ii] To find out the relationship among the types of Aggressive Behaviour. [iii] To find out the difference between the low Academic Achievers and high Academic Achievers in different types of Aggressive Behaviours. [iv] To find out the difference between Male and Female students in Aggressive Behaviour. Method of study: Normative survey method. Samples: One hundred and fifty seven students studying in standard IX. Tool: Researcher’s self-made Aggressive Behaviour tool consisting of 35 items in different types of Aggression such as Physical, Verbal, Anger, Hostility and Indirect Aggression. Reliability of the tool: The reliability of the tool was calculated by split-half method and the calculated reliability value is 0.734. Procedure of the study: [i] The investigator got permission from the concerned school head masters by explaining about the importance of the investigation. [ii] The procedure of the response of the Aggressive Behaviour scale with personal data sheet was explained to the students clearly and the Aggressive Behaviour scale with personal data sheet was distributed to the students. [iii] The response sheet was taken back from the samples along that their halfyearly marks were noted as Academic Achievement. Findings: [i] There is a significant low negative correlation between Aggressive Behaviour and Academic Achievement. [ii] There is a significant positive correlation among Physical Aggression, Verbal Aggression, Anger, Hostility and Indirect Aggression. [iii] There is a significant difference between the Low Academic Achievers and High Academic Achievers in Physical Aggression and Anger. [iv] There is no significant difference between the Low Academic Achievers and High Academic Achievers in Verbal Aggression, Hostility and Indirect Aggression. [v] There is a significant difference between Male and Female students in Aggressive Behaviour.

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Authors: Mrs. Manjula K Swamy,Assistant Professor. New Horizon College of Education, Indiranagar, Bangalore. Karnataka

Education for sustainability is driven by a broad understanding of education and learning that includes people of all ages and backgrounds and at all stages of life and takes place within all possible learning spaces, formal and informal, in schools, workplaces, homes and communities. Sustainability Education is intended to provide learning, training, and practical experience, in both formal and non-formal settings, that fosters personal development, community involvement, and action for change in our human and natural world. Sustainability science demands a realignment of existing academic disciplines. Whereas academia has moved inexorably towards the fields of in-depth specialization, sustainability science seeks comprehensive, integrated solutions to complex problems. It is therefore requires a restructuring of education and research that spans multiple disciplines. There are various advantages of infusing the sustainability of science into the curriculum. To infuse the same the various methods are discussed, which helps us to revamp the curriculum which is required to structure the curriculum according the needs and challenges of the learning society.This paper reflects about the infusion of sustainability science in the curriculum.

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Authors: S. Mahalakshmi, Department of English, Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu

This paper focuses on the element of conflict in Arnold’s The Scholar Gipsy and T.S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men. These poems mainly deal with the conflicts of the Victorian age and Twentieth century respectively. In Victorian age, a kind of tension and conflict existed between the ‘accepted old’ and ‘new ideas’. Arnold portrays the conflict in the society and in the scholar in his poem The Scholar Gipsy. He paints it with a vivid picture of his own world’s miseries and disillusionments. The conflict is not only at the social level: religion and science, but also at the psychic level: emotional and intellectual. Their dilemma to choose between the two is beautifully brought out in Arnold’s poem The Scholar Gipsy. In The Hollow Men, T.S. Eliot has expressed the intellectual and spiritual emptiness of his age and also the conflicts in modern men. This poem completely mirrors the Twentieth century, where people were gripped by the intense nostalgia for a state of ‘Edenic purity’ which conflicts with the paradoxical search for a more enduring form of order through acts of denial and alienation. It is the modern men’s inaction that leads to their conflict which is artfully brought out by T.S. Eliot in the poem The Hollow Men. Thus both the poems deal with the element of conflict which is deeply analyzed in this paper.

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Authors: Dr. Ms. Kaneez Banoo Quraishi,H. O. D. English, Smt. G. B. Mahila Mahavidyalaya,Tumsar, Bhandara (M.S)

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888, at St. Louis, in the state of Missouri, the United States of America. Eliot himself told an audience at St. Louis, in 1953, that the ‘original law of public service’, which inspired him as a child, ‘operated especially in three areas: the church, the city, and the university”. He further explained that for him the church meant the Unitarian church of the Messiah the city was St. Louis, and the University the Washington University. ‘These’, Eliot elaborates, ‘were the symbols of Religion, the Community and Education’. He comments that ‘it is a very good beginning for any child, to be brought up to reverence such institutions, and to be taught that personal and selfish aims should be subordinated to the general good which they represents’.

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Authors: Dr. C.S. Robinson, Professor & Head, Department of English, SRM Arts & Science College Chennai, Tamilnadu

Among the earliest references to the plight of the Dalits is made by Jawaharlal Nehru in The Discovery of India where he attributes the cause of social and political subjugation of the Dravidians by the invading Aryas. He reasons that “brough degradation in its train… and it (the Dalit situation) is still a burden and a cause”. While Nehru’s notes appear to carry a touch of condescension, Runoko Rashidi reads the significance of the color black, with which, the Dalit is often associated. He notes, with amusement, in his essay “The African Presence in Indian Antiquity” that they portray the human as black because it is consistent with their habit of portray(ing) and depict(ing) their gods and their idols black and their devils white as snow. Rashidi was to later admit to Vijay Prashad, “I’ve given the impression that Dalits are Black people”. What can be deluced from these references is that the voice of the outsider is either coldly analytical or too amused and inaccurate. One needs to read the voice of the outsider. About one such voice Saraswathy Nagarajan says, “It was a search for identity that transformed Faustina Mary Fathima Rani into a writer”. That was when Bama was born. Bama went on to be the beacon of light of Dalit literary articulation. She and the writers she influenced have given to Tamil literature an identity which is comparable to the over in Marathi and Kannada. So much so, D.R. Venkatachalapathy in his “Overview of Dalit Literary Writing in Tamil” says that “Dalit creative writers have since (the 1990s) asserted themselves”.

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Authors: K. Balachandra, Research Scholar, Department of Education,Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh

Adjustment is an integral part of every living being on earth. A child when it is born learn to adjust itself soon after coming from the womb. Similarly an animal tries for adjustment when there is no rail or fire. It tries to go in search of water or tries to escape from fire. Adjustment in living beings is innate. A plant which is placed in a shady area tries to reach the sun light this is also call adjustment. The present study is aimed to investigate the adjustment problems of adolescent students studying intermediate in chittoor district. The investigator has taken the study only on intermediate students because the students at intermediate are teen agers this particular stage is very crucial as they encounter mental and physical changes rapidly.

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Authors: Prashant A. Rudragoudar, Department of Education, Davangere University, Shivagangothri, Davangere, Karnataka

Quality is a word familiar to everyone; it has a variety of meanings. It is used to signify ‘excellence’ of a product or service. It also means professionalism, reliability, consistency meeting customer requirements. Quality is both a user-oriented and a production oriented expression. Total Quality Management (TQM) is the organization-wide management of quality. Management consists of planning, organizing, directing, control, and assurance. Total quality is called total because it consists of two qualities: quality of return to satisfy the needs of the shareholders, or quality of products. TQM implies the application of quality principles right from identification of customer needs to post purchase services. The objective of TQM is to build an organization that produces products or performs services that are considered as quality by those who use them. The quality of a product or a service is the customer’s perception of the degree to which the product or service meets their expectations. TQM is the process of integration of all activities, functions and processes within an organization in order to achieve continuous improvement in cost, quality, function and delivery of goods and services for customer satisfaction. TQM a management philosophy developed for industrial purposes is now attracting increasing attention in the field of education. In the context of education, this may lead to continually improving the quality of instruction in order to encourage students to become critical and creative thinkers in a fast-changing technological world. The present paper emphasizes on the impact of TQM in education.

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Authors: Dr. Saurav Sengupta, Assistant Professor,Dept. of English, Damdama College,Guwahati Gakul Kumar Das, Assistant Professor,Dept. of Assamese, Darrang College,Tezpur

The Bathou is an important cultural referent for the Bodo people. At once, constituting a threshold of the sacred, its symbolic architecture is one that allows men and gods to interact with one another. There is a particular structure that allows for walking. Mircea Eliade remarks that in most religions, the visible signifier of movement allows the sacred to break into the profane and declare its importance. One finds a right angle altar around the Kherai itself. This is the point also of the real. But as the critic says, one of the outstanding achievements of traditional society is its ability to demarcate between the right and wrong-translated in moral terms becomes a cleavage between the known world of ‘our’ people and ‘deities’ against the outside world of foreigners and demons-those that inhabit a homogenous empty time. But the real is also not a matter of human agency or intervention. It is a moment of ‘recreation’ when the past and present becomes one and continuous. How to reinvent the primordial act? That part is taken care of when the sijna plant is worshipped and an altar built around the same.

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Authors: Pramod Prabhakar Kamble, Department of Commerce, Sahakarbhushion S.K.Patil College, Kurundwad,Shirol, Kolhapur

Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE), known as first generation entrepreneurs act as a seed for developing entrepreneurship in the county. It has been recognized as an engine for economic development of country. It has played significant role in providing employment, contributing to the GDP and export. Finance holds the key aspect for the development of this sector. There is significant gap between the requirement of funds and the supply of funds to small enterprises in India. The small enterprises especially new enterprises in India is facing difficulty in getting finance due to non availability collateral security. By considering this the government of India was launched Credit Guarantee Fund Scheme for Micro and Small Enterprises on 30 Aug. 2000. The object of this scheme is to make available collateral free credit to micro and small enterprises. The object of the present paper aims to review micro, small and medium sector and the role of CGMES in financing to this sector.

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Authors: K. Vijaya Sri Hari, Research Scholar, Department of Education, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, A P

The effective way for better communication either in spoken form or written form lies in the proper use of Word Class. Students learn parts of speech / word class from the beginning of their studies in English. This study attempts to bring to the light the knowledge of students of professional courses. The basic knowledge of word class helps a person either to communicate orally or in written form the idea that he wants to convey in a clear way. All the words that we use in our day to day life come under the different categories called word classes (or parts of speech) according to the part they play in a sentence. The main word classes in English are: 1. Noun 2. Adverb 3. Conjunction 4. Verb 5. Pronoun 6. Determiner 7. Adjective 8. Preposition 9. Exclamation. It is very essential to all the students from the very early stages of schooling to know and learn the key English language words, aspects, vocabulary etc. As a result they will have basic knowledge of the language. The exposure to different aspects of English language is to be continued in higher classes so as to enable them to use English language for better communication. In this fast changing global scenario it is of immense value to have good knowledge of Word Class.