Theory and Principles of Education

Part-I: Philosophical Bases of Education: 1. Education: Definition, Meaning and Functions, 2. Education and Allied Terms, 3. Types of Education: Formal, Informal and Non-formal: Agencies of Education, 4. Aims of Education, 5. Democratic and Totalitarian Aims of Education, 6. Philosophy and Education, 7. Philosophies of Education, 8. Knowledge and its Sources,9. Indian Tradition of Philosophical Thinking and Educational Implications, Part-II: Sociological Bases of Education: 10. Educational Sociology, 11. Education and Social Change, 12. Democracy and Education, 13. Socialisation of the Child, 14. Education for Citizenship, 15. School as a Social Institution, 16. The Home and the School, 17. The State as an Agency of Education, 18. The Community and Peer Groups as Informal Agencies of Education, 19. Mass Media as an Agency of Education, Part-III: Western Educational Thinkers: 20. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, 21. Rousseau, 22. Pestalozzi and Herbart, 23. Froebel, 24. Maria Montessori, 25. John Dewey, 26. Bertrand Russell, 27. Paulo Freire, Part-IV: Indian Educational Thinkers: 28. Swami Dayanand, 29. Swami Vivekananda, 30. Sri Aurobindo, 31. Rabindranath Tagore, 32. Mahatma Gandhi, 33. Dr Radhakrishnan, 34. Dr Zakir Husain, 35. J. Krishnamurti, Part-V: Current Educational Thought: 36. Religion and Education, 37. Education and Culture, 38. Discipline and Freedom, 39. Basic Education, 40. Education through Work, 41. Education for Emotional and National Integration, 42. Education for International Understanding, 43. Modernization of Indian Education, 44. Philosophical, Sociological and Psychological Basic of Curriculum Construction, 45. Population Education, 46. Environmental Education, 47. Value-Oriented Education, 48. A Philosophy of Education and Education for the Twenty-first Century, Part-VI: Pathfinders in Education (Indians and Other in the World): 49. Pathfinders in Modern Indian Education, 50. Twentieth Century Pathfinders in Education in the World (Other Than India) • Illustrative Objective Type Questions with Answers

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