Changing Perspectives of Education in India

About the Book The book is an outcome of an intensive filtration of the arbitration in National Seminar on Changing Perspectives of Education in India held at the beginning of the year 2019. Never in history of teacher education in India, there was a decade as happening as the present one. From policy to curriculum, from structure of the course to the minimum qualification of the teachers, everything has been stirred with the hope to come up with something better than before. In the backdrop, the applications of computer and online learning have brought a systematic challenge to the centuries tested teaching-learning practices. The globalisation of the world has put all the human resource managers on their toes to compete with each other at international level to create new levels and ranges of competencies to meet the challenges and to surge ahead in throat-cutting competition. It is at this juncture that we are presenting this book, with glimpses on the various emerging practices and perspectives of education. The areas touched in the book are ICT and online education, blended learning, learner centric Science education, ethical perspective in education, tribal education, education for sustainable development, humanising education, ecological education, art education, and nature of scientific knowledge in our time. We hope this will be an impetus to the research community for further research. Weight 0.450 Gm. Year 2020 Pages 280 Edition Hard Bound Author Name Dr. Upasana Singh and Prabhas Ranjan About the Authors About the Editors Dr. Upasana Singh is at present, Head of the Department of Education and Dean, Faculty of Education, Patna Women's College (PWC), Patna. She was a gold medalist in M.Ed. and a doctorate in Education from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. She has extensive teaching experience and her core areas include Experimental Education, Educational Technology, Educational Psychology and Teaching of Science. With a keen interest in research she has successfully completed UGC sponsored Research Project on 'Technology Integration among Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers' and has supervised many research projects of students under the 'College with Potential for Excellence' Scheme of UGC. She has been convenor of UGC and RUSA sposored National Seminars organized by the Department of Education, PWC and has rendered her services as a resource person to other institutions. Besides, she has many publications to her credit and is member of Research Committee of PWC and Editorial Boards and Advisory Committees of some reputed institutions. Prabhas Ranjan is Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Patna Women's College, Patna. His research interest includes ICT, Online Teaching-learning Strategies, Curriculum, Teaching of History. He conducted two minor research projects on Engendering Digital Divide: A Mixed Method Study across Disciplines and Prospects and Challenges for Pre-Service Teacher Education Curriculum Reforms in Bihar with respect to National Curriculum Framework for Teacher Education (NCFTE-2009).