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Unit-1
Basic Ideas in Education
- Education: Its meaning
processes, purpose and aims; its liberal and interdisciplinary nature.
- Major concepts in Education: Schooling and Education,
Teaching, Training, Learning, Indoctrination, and Propaganda.
- Epistemological basis of education: Knowledge,
Belief, Inquiry, Reason
- Ethics, values and ideals
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Unit 2
Understanding Education and Society
- Education and Socialisation: Agencies of
Socialisation-Home, Family, Community, School and Media.
- Culture and Education: Role of education in
preservation, transformation, and promotion of Culture; culture and ideology.
- Constitutional Values: Equality, Freedom, Justice,
Secularism, Human Rights
- Bases for formulating Aims of Education: With
reference to the constitution and other socio-cultural forces in India.
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Unit 3
Thinkers in Education
Each thinker is to be studied with reference to their
perspectives on education.
- Sri Aurobindo
- J. Krishnamurti
- John Dewey
- J.J. Rousseau
- Paulo Freire
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