This book explores the strategies and tactics of knowledge-transfer for quality education, which starts with identifying the elements of knowledge, may be it factual or procedural. It deals with pertinent issues like Teacher and associated changed roles vis-à-vis manpower characteristics in the changing scenario and changed educational perspectives of teachers in the rapidly changing paradigm along with necessary traits to enhance their effectiveness and ethical vitalities amidst of marketization of education.
The volume thrives to ‘uncover’ the content relating to ‘wh’ of pedagogy, the systems approach thereof, ideals of the profession, the process of Instruction, impact of Learning-style, Motivation and Communication, required skill-sets for Teaching and Instructional media, apart from basics of Measurement and Psychopedagogy for the teachers of the present and future.
The book is expected to familiarize the readers with the essentials of teaching, some of which are usually not being taught in the traditional teacher-education programmes in India.
Rajarshi Roy is Professor and presently Head of the Department of Education at Vinaya Bhavana of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan and prior to this, he served as the Head of the Department of Education at National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Kolkata and also as a member of faculty of the Department of Education of Sir Ashutosh Mukhyopadhyaya School of Educational Sciences at Assam University, Silchar.
Professor Roy is actively associated with Educational and Policy Research for the development of the oppressed. His specific contribution is in the arena of Ethnopedagogy. Roy also contributed in the arena of Environmental Education and socio-educational studies for the improvement of man-standard and life-quality of the population at crisis, apart from Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Pedagogy of Engineering Education and Indigenous Technology. Professor Roy has to his credit more than hundred publications of International and National repute.
Foreword
Preface
Section A
Teacher, Pedagogy-System and Curriculum
The Teacher
Learning: Psychology and Principles
Glimpse of Pedagogy and Curriculum
Section B
Instruction
Instructional Objectives
Instructional Strategies and Instructional Methods
Designing Classroom Instructional Plan
Section C
Learning Styles, Motivation and Communication
Learning Styles
Principles of Motivation and Motivating Students in Classroom
Principles of Communication and its’ Application in Classroom
Section D
Skill-sets for Teaching and Instructional Media
Overview of Instructional Media
Principles of Visual Media Design
Teaching Skills
Development of Teaching Skill
Section E
Measurement, Evaluation and Measuring Devices
Basics of Measurement, Evaluation and Allied Devices
Questions: Types and Characteristics
Skill Evaluation
Instructional Plan for Laboratory
Section F
Psychopedagogy and Teaching
Interface of Psychology, Education and Guidance
Psychopedagogy for Guiding Adolescent Students
Psycho-pedagogical Tests and Inventories in Career Guidancevis-a-vis Emotional Intelligence
Bibliography
Index