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DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION 1. Name of the Faculty: Education.
2. Year of Establishment of the Department: 1983
3. Head of the Department: Prof. Arvind Kumar Pandey
4. About the Department:
The Department of Education, Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith was first established in 1983 with the starting of B.Ed. & Diploma courses in adult education and other allied area of education. Subsequently it started course in M.Ed. for pre-service & in-service teachers as terminal and preparatory to Ph.D. in education .The Department of Education has distinguished itself by designing need based interdisciplinary course with value orientation. Initially the special stress has been laid on the development of basic competencies and skills of teaching and communication essential for effective organization, management and monitoring of teaching learning system at the school level (10+ 2 level education). the department was the first department in the country to have launched a full-fledged course in action research as also in environmental education at the B.Ed. level. Needless to mention that these courses have now been accepted by the NCTE thousand student teachers have received formal training. This course is aimed at orienting the pre-service teachers to the methodology of action research for understanding and improving the grass root level reality contexts of teaching and learning. Our experience shows that a lot can be done in this direction by systematically planning and developing such training programmes and courses in respect of in-service teacher also to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom and for understanding criterion referenced testing (CRT) approaches. It is pertinent to observe that the department has been organizing micro teaching modular sessions for pre-service students with an intent of developing teaching-learning skills needed for effective systems of self managed learning programmes. Staff members and research scholar of the department have constructed and standardized tools for measuring various variables eg. Value inculcation, Teacher’s Accountability, Deprivation, Academic anxiety of teacher and students, Awareness of fundamental duties, Emotional Intelligence, Achievement tests of Educational Psychology and Educational Philosophy, Citizenship, Burnout, etc. Along with this, several research projects have been undertaken by staff members of the department. The department has celebrated the year 2009 as the silver jubilee year. A lecture series has been organized in which experts were invited to deliver lecture on various issues related to education. 5. Courses Running in the Department:
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Research/Thrust Area of the
Department: i) Educational technology ii) Educational Psychology iii) Educational Guidance and Counselling iv) Curriculum Development :- Development of Teaching & Learning Material. v) Teacher Education vi) Educational Administration vii) Environmental Education viii) Non Formal Education ix) International Education x) Indology and Education xi) Futuristic Education xii) Philosophy and Sociology of Education xiii) Value Education xiv) Emotional Intelligence xv)
Stress And Burnout 7. Faculty Members of the Department:
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Non teaching staff of the
Department:
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Departmental Library
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Research Project (Major/Minor)
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National/International
Seminar/Conferences/Workshop/Program & other academic activities which
will be organized by the department in future (Please give the detail):
1. National seminars, orientation programmes on lesson planning etc. 2. National workshop on Research methodology and other relevant areas. 12.
Future
° To train futuristic qualitative teachers. ° To conduct research in the most desirable areas in the discipline of education. eg:- Educational Technology, Educational Administration, Environmental Education, Value Education, Teacher Education, Guidance and Counselling, Philosophy and Sociology of Education, Psychology of Education. ° To set the norms and standards of teacher’s Education as per the provisions prescribed by N.C.T.E to organise conferences, seminars, lecture series, workshops in the area of the discipline of education and upon the burning issues related to education. ° To collaborate with various Regional and National institutes of education in academic and research oriented areas. ° To promote educational innovation and ideas in neighbouring schools and colleges related to teacher education. ° To supervise, inspect and guide the proposed teachers training colleges affiliated to the University. ° To establish link between the University and the local community for the purpose of organizing programmes related to literacy and various type of community development projects. |