Primary and Elementary Education

Contents
PART- I
POLICY AND PROGRAMMES OF PRIMARY/ ELEMENTARY EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL
1. National System of Education and National Policy on Education
2. National Education in India
3. Education for All. A National Challenge
4. Reschooling, Not Deschooling
5. Life-long Education: A Way of Life
6. Action Research for Teachers in the Context of the National
Education Policy, 1986-1992 7. New Challenges of Education
8. An Educational Trip to Wales in the UK
9. Reminiscences of a Primary School Supervisor
10. Salient Features of the British Elementary Education and their Relevance in the Indian Context
11. Role of UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and UNFPA in Financing Education
12. Rights of the Child and Universalisation of Elementary Education
13. Minimum Levels of Learning (MLL) in Elementary Education
14. Constitutional Provisions and Amendments for Education 15. Research on Educational Broadcasting and
Audio-Video Programmes for Professional Growth of Primary School Teachers
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PART 11
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMARY/ ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
16. Growth of Primary Education in the Free India
17. Development of Elementary/Primary Education
since Eighties 18. Primary Education-Its Role, Objectives and Functions
19. Universalisation of Elementary Education
20. Equalisation of Educational Opportunities
21. Disparities in Elementary Education: Barriers in Universalisation Innovations in Elementary Teacher and Adult Education
23. Operation Blackboard: A Symbol of Progress in Primary Schools
24. Principles of Curriculum Development
25. Curriculum Reconstruction
26. Elementary Education as Human Resource Development
27. DPEP: Much Ado about Something
28. UN System Support for Community Based Education
29. Education Guarantee Scheme and Alternative Innovative Elementary Education
30. Learning without Burden
PART III
ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PRIMARY/ ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
31. Role and Responsibilities of Teachers
32. Effective Teaching and Successful Teachers
33. Inservice Education and Training for Teachers (INSET)
34. Classroom Organisation and Management
35. Headmaster: His Duties and Responsibilities
36. School Plant: Various Physical Resources
37. School-Community Relationship
38. Organization of Co-curricular Activities: Values and Principles
39. Art Education in the NPE: 1986-92
40. Children's Literature: Nature, Needs and Characteristics 41. Role of Juvenile Literature in Elementary Education
42. Evaluation of Student. Learning
43. Media and Materials for Children's Learning
44. Teaching Techniques and Skills
45. Audio-visual Education
PART IV
SOCIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PRIMARY/ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
46. Elementary Education for the Underprivileged
47. Education of Girls
48. Education of Children from the Scheduled Castes, Tribes and the Backward Communities
49. Elementary Education for the Backward Learners
50. School Education of Specially Handicapped Children
51. Problems of Financing School Education
52. School Improvement Programme for the Elementary Schools Through Voluntary Efforts
53. Some Problems in Tribal Education in Orissa
54. Child Growth and Development
55. Physical Growth and Development
56. Intellectual Development
57. Emotional and Social Development
58. Children's Creativity: Meaning, Nature and Identification
59. Encouraging Children's Creativity
60. Individual Differences of Pupils A Challenge to our Teachers
61. Language Development of Children
62. Promotion of Speech Activities Among Children
PART V
DEMOCRACY AND PRIMARY/ELEMENTARY EDUCATION:
CASE STUDIES AND INVESTIGATIONS
63. Impact of Democracy on Primary Education in India
64. A Study of the Inspection Reports of Primary Schools
65. A Study of the Methods of Inspection of Primary Schools in Orissa
66. Early Childhood Education (ECE) and its Need for Universalisation of Elementary Education (UEE)
67. A Study of the Efficacy of the Field Trip in the Teaching of Social Studies (Primary)
68. A Study of the Reading Interests of Children
69. An Investigation into the Problems and Prospects of School-Community Cooperation for Democratisation and Improvement of Education
1. Government of India and UN System Support for Community Based Primary Education
2. An Extract from the Programme of Action (POA), 1992
3. "Learning the Treasure Within"-Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for Twenty-First Century: UNESCO Publishing. Paris, 1996
4. Norms and Standards for Elementary Teacher Education Institutions, 1995
5. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: A Programme for Universal Elementary Education in India, 2000
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Index