SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

 

 

 

 

 Most of the school students feel that mathematics is a difficult, complicated and

confusing subject because it involves formulae and calculations. Some students feel that it is not

related to their real life situations. In schools, teachers use conventional teaching and learning

instruments as text-books, revision books and courseware which could not develop interest in

mathematics and could not motivate the students for learning mathematics. There is no need to

spend more time to learn how to think and perform in the real world challenges, we need

effective, interactive experiences that motivate and actively engage us in the learning process.

That’s why we can use game based learning as an alternative to make learning of

mathematics interesting and realistic.

The focus of this study is to improve the achievement and interest of school students

in mathematics. Experimental research methodology has been used for this study and single

group design has been used for the research. 40 sixth standard students were selected from the

population by purposive sampling method. The achievement test (pre-test and post-test) tools are

used for collection of data. The findings of the study suggest non technological games showed a

positive response towards the academic achievement in mathematics among the sixth standard

students.

Key words-Game based program, non technological game, student’s achievement

 Education and culture are intimately and integrally connected. The cultural pattern of a

society conditions its educational pattern. For example, if a society has a spiritual pattern of

culture, then its educational procedures will emphasize the achievement of moral and eternal

values of life. On the other hand, if the cultural pattern of a society is materialistic, then

naturally its educational pattern will be shaped for the attainment of material values which

promote pleasures of senses and material comforts. A society devoid of any culture will have

no define educational organization. Hence the culture of a country has a very powerful

impact on its educational pattern. The intimate relationship between culture and education is

evident from the fact that one of the major aims of education is to impact to the child his

cultural heritage, the social heritage. Learners should be made aware of their own cultures

and of the need to get to know their own culture and that of others in the school. Learners

should be proud of their cultural backgrounds, because if one is aware of where one is

coming from, it becomes easy to know where one is going to. Education is a deliberate

attempt to construct human beings who will participate in society as productive citizens. The

question whether our education system should be designed or not is quite irrelevant when

education, schooling, training, indoctrination, and the spectrum of ways by which the child is

“schooled” are all based on intentional design. Schooling is the most contested terrain in

any society; it is a battlefield or a conveyor belt for the creation of human beings. In a

multicultural society, who should be entrusted to design schooling? Are those designing our

schooling equipped with the varieties of philosophical perspectives in education???

Keywords Multicultural Education, Diverse Society.

 India is a multicultural and emerging globalized society. Indian education system is secular

and democratic value based. ‘Indian culture is the culture of cultures.’ So it is not a

particular culture but mixture of various cultures. It is the unique culture in the world. To

transmit this culture is the role of education. So, Indian multicultural education is based on

social justice, educational equity and respect for all thoughts. Multicultural education

includes content integration, the knowledge and wisdom construction process, prejudice

reduction, equity pedagogy and empowering school culture and social culture.

In a multicultural education, a teacher has not a particular religion or culture. He is

a studied transmitter of all religions and cultures. He follows all religions and cultures good

principles. In the era of communication and globalization, the world has become ‘a global

village’. This global village is the melting pot of different cultures. So ‘international

understanding’ is the need of multicultural globalized society. Educated, skilled and talented

students have global opportunities. So teacher, education, culture and globalization should

go in hand in hand.

 Language has immense potential to make man good and noble or bad and ignoble. The

free exchange of language among people like the exchange of currency, lays the foundation

for society and social groupings, countries and colonies, nations and governments.

Language is complex system with many subsystems which leads towards Contentment of

man. It is true to say that English has become one of the major languages of the world, and

Indians can neglect its study at their own risk. It is through English that we have shared the

wisdom of the west and the west has shared with us our intellectual and spiritual heritage.

As we see that how English become a link language in India we just want to throw light on

the condition of English at higher Secondary level and its multicultural uses for human

beings. It is a rich store house of knowledge. There is hardly anything important in the

world that has not been translated into English. English is rapidly becoming a world

language it is the first language of the United Kingdom the United States of America

Canada and Australia in addition it is spoken and read by many millions of Europeans

Africans, Chinese, Indians, Japanese and South Americans. In Indian Schools, the place of

the English Language is at Third stage whoever in English Medium Schools it is at Second

Level. Status of English Language, we should try to change the scenario of the teaching

English Language from primary to Higher Education. The basic motto of this paper is to

face the problems mentioned by the higher education should focus the suggestions

highlighted through this paper.

Key Words: Multicultural Use, Scenario of the Teaching, Groupings.

 The changing composition of the classroom and broader society which is becoming

increasingly diverse and the proliferation of communication media & technology which is

becoming increasingly accessible to most sectors of the population are the two developments

challenging current educational practice in the India. Teachers today find themselves

working with more diverse students than ever before students increasingly has access to

sophisticated portable, personal communication devices that in many cases deliver

information more rapidly and more engagingly than textbooks and traditional classroom

pedagogy. Far too often the focus in teacher education programs has been on curriculum

content rather than on effective and appropriate instructional strategies for teaching and

reaching diverse groups of students. If we are to prepare today’s teachers for the changing

composition of our society and schools, colleges of education need to do much more.

Multicultural education needs to be integrated throughout teacher preparation programs. In

this research article the researcher tries to study the present situation of India as a

multicultural society, suggest reforms in teacher education programme and suggest the

classroom strategies for transforming education for multicultural society.

Key Words: Transformation, Education, Multicultural society

 Multicultural education is a new trend and it will become incorporated into most school

curriculums in future years. Several prestigious universities in the world today require

students to take classes in social studies. Thus, by using multicultural education, teachers,

in particular, can help children value the significance of treating all people with selfesteem

and not judging groups of people for the actions of a few. More importantly,

teachers must model tolerance and compassion in their words and behavior. They should

also encourage children to explore their feelings about prejudice and hatred. In doing this,

the society will secure a better chance to stop any further destruction and will be able to

present potentially powerful opportunities for the next generation to learn and integrate

respect and dignity for people.

 Every thing in education relates to culture to its acquisition its transmission and its invention.

Culture is in us and all around us , Just as in the air we breathe .It is personal, familial,

communal, institutional, societal, and global in its scope and distribution. so in this article focus on

nature of multicultural. Cultural education meaning of culture, dimensions of multicultural

education and how the school playing a vital role in multicultural empowerment.

Keyword : Multicultural Education, multicultural societies ,social system.

 

 Multicultural education is an approach to teaching and learning that is based on democratic

values that affirm cultural pluralism within culturally diverse societies in an interdependent

world. There are currently two viewpoints or perspectives of multicultural education in the

United States, namely the assimilation or “melting-pot” perspective and the pluralism or

“global” perspective. The assimilation perspective of multicultural education is that micro

cultures must give up their original culture and identities in order to blend in or become

absorbed into the predominant Anglo-Western European culture. The global perspective of

multicultural education recognizes cultural pluralism as an ideal and healthy state in any

productive society and promotes equity and respect among the existing cultural groups. It

extends beyond equity pedagogy. With the rapidly increasing interconnections among all

nations, particularly now, as we face global issues related to the ecosystem, nuclear

weapons, terrorism, human rights, and scarce national resources, institutions of higher

education need to embrace the global perspective of multicultural education if we are going

to remain models of democratic societies in a pluralistic world and stay academically

competitive in relation to the rest of the world. The purpose of this article is to explain the

global perspective of multicultural education and how institutions of higher education can

use it to remain models of academic excellence in pluralistic and democratic societies.

 

 

 research study investigated how mobile phones can be used for teaching and learning

purposes in higher learning institutions in India. Specifically the study assessed how

mobile phones facilitated the teaching and learning process, identified the mobile phone

applications used for teaching and learning, determined the types of learning activities

facilitated through mobile phones and assessed the common limitations of m-learning

in the class.

The study employed a survey where teaching staff and students from faculties and

institutes hosting academic programmes were involved. A total of 30 teaching staff and 40

students were randomly selected and included in the study. In-depth interviews,

observations and questionnaire were used for data collection. It was found that majority of

the respondents used their mobile phones for teaching and learning process although not in

an obvious way. It was found that most respondents reported to use traditional mobile

learning applications including text messages and calls. Few respondents had smart phones

with a number of m-learning applications most of them being teaching staff. These were able

to create upload, download and share academic resources through their smart phones

while others recorded and stored files in their phones. It was also found that among

teaching staff many were not aware of the capacity of their mobile phones such that

they underutilized them. Costs associated with downloading multimedia content was another

constraint which limited some respondents especially students from using phones for

learning purposes. More than that, users were generally used only free online mobile

applications the choice of which was very restricted.

 

 

 The aim of vocational education in India is to develop skilled manpower through diversified

courses to meet the requirements of mainly the unorganized sector and to instill self

employment skills in people through large number of self employment oriented courses in

rural & urban area of the country . In India, vocational education is imparted through

industrial training institutes (ITIS) & Polytechnics. The skill shortage in the Indian Economy

today is largely due to neglect of vocational education. Vocational education is the tool for

economic, social & political development as well as economic stability of the nation.

 

 

 

 

 

 The rapid changes and increased complexity of today‟s world present new challenges and

put new demands on our education system. There has been generally a growing awareness of

the necessity to change and improve the preparation of teacher Educators for productive

functioning in the continually changing and highly demanding environment. In confronting

this challenge necessary to consider the complexity of the education system. Today‟s

teachers are well known with such assessment in the field of education. So he should also get

aware of the changes of this respective field. In today‟s world of technology many rapid

changes are taking place. Traditional ways are getting replaced with new one. The use of this

technology in academic education puts high demands on the technology due to the complex

nature of the communication, and the authors maintain that the content and goals of the

teaching and tutoring must decide the choice of technology. It must also be considered

whether different technological methods should be used exclusively or combined with one

another or with teaching or tutoring in the same room. The methods demand both

pedagogical and didactical knowledge in order to ensure quality in the various areas where

the technology is applied, and furthermore, a basic understanding of technical possibilities

and limitations of the technology. As a professional practitioner, the teacher is likely to

become a role model or standard for his or her students. So, researcher wants to put light on

the effective tools for improving English Language. The teacher‟s daily plan is often full of

countless challenges and the time constraints are very tight. However, it is expected that

creativity should be given space at work in an active search for new knowledge and new

methods, and all this will be possible only through only use of technology and its strong

impact.

 The research paper is based on the opinion of students about CCE. . Data collection method

is survey. Opinionarre tool is used for data collection. The opinionarre is distributed to

students learning in CBSE school The students have given their opinion in writing by filling

the opinionarre. Chi square test is used for data analysis.The result of chi square is

significant at both level. From this study it is concluded that CCE is a very effective

evaluation technique.

 

 

 

 Teaching through experience is stimulating and challenging to both teacher and children.

Knowledge is socially constructed and based on experiences. This knowledge should be

organized in real-life experiences that provide a context for the information. Experiential

learning involves learning from experience. According to Kolb, this type of learning can be

defined as "the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of

experience. Experiential learning is a philosophy and methodology in which educators

purposefully engage with students in direct experience and focused reflection in order to

increase knowledge, develop skills, and clarify values. This article describes meaning, need,

importance and taxonomy of experiential learning. This paper also informs about steps of

experiential model. It will be of immense utility to teachers, student teachers and

educationists.

 

 

 The investigation of pattern of Internet use by faculty and students is an important source of

information to an institution’s management regarding the development, management and

evaluation of their information technology projects. This research assesses the use of Internet

by student teachers and the constraints faced by the student teachers in using the Internet

makes suggestions for its improvement. This study has shown that although, the use of

Internet is widespread among students it has become imperative for the colleges to address a

number of issues for the students to optimally reap the benefits derivable from Internet use.

“Like the PC, the Internet is a tidal wave. It will wash over the computer industry

and many others, drowning those who don\'t learn to swim in its waves."

Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft Corporation

 Women are the integral part of family & vital force in socio-economic progress. Her

progress is one of the important part of changing world. So she must have decision making skill

in herself. Decision making process is generally influenced by the level of knowledge. Some

powers are by birth but some abilities can develop by certain effort & trying. Improving

individuals abilities to solve problems and make decisions is recognized as an important issue in

education, industry, and government. The present study is undertaken to survey for checking

awareness of decision among adolescent girls. It has identified adolescent know importance of

decision & decision making skill; still they are not take any decision self.

Key Words : Women, Decision making skill & adolescent girls

 

 

 

 

 E- learning is an activity of learning with learner’s own interest. It has it’s own aim. Every

learner does specific activity to learn. In E- learning the learner fixes his/ her own

objectives. He selects electronic tool for interaction. He /She analyses himself / herself.

SWOT ( Strength, weakness, opportunities Threats) analysis is useful for E- learning. As per

learner’s own skills of handling e-tools, he/she selects & grades the tools. The learner

interacts with e-tools and tries to learn more. For that learning teacher has to play a role of

facilitator, trainer, producer, instructor, provider counsellor, designer, vendor etc. Teacher

of every stage applies E- learning. Learner of primary stage, secondary stage, senior stage

uses e-tools to learn. For formal & informal learning , e-tools are useful. The teacher /

learner uses mass media approach for E- learning. Other methods viz communicative

approach, multimedia approach, trial – error method, e-questioning method, self learning

method, instructional manual method, system approach are useful to deal with E- learning.

Models like enquiry training model, inductive thinking model, self awareness training model,

non directive teaching model, group investigation model are helpful to learn with e-tools

 There is a continuous felt need to improve education literacy in almost all nation in the world

(Rumberger, 2013) we find in India over 20 million graduates struggle to get jobs and may

not necessarily use their basic education knowledge for their livelihood (Mitra Arup, 2013)

The research paper analysis the college drop out billionaires and entrepreneur samples who

got successful funding in Indian Venture Capital eco system to understand why more

successful entrepreneurs emerge with no education background and why the education

system in India doesn’t guarantee a job in chosen education or foster entrepreneurship spirit.

(Julka Harsimran, 2013).

Keywords: PASSION FRAMEWORK, Probing, Innovation, Dream, Entrepreneur, Education,

Career

 The paper seeks to identify the concept of Knowledge management. The need of knowledge

management and the challenges faced by the educational institutions in coming up with the

Knowledge management techniques. It also focuses on knowing the various strategies or

practices involved in KM . The effort to share the most recent understandings about

Knowledge management in education is the changing roles and challenges for higher

education.

Keywords: Knowledge management, Higher Education

 This research paper will focus on benefits of using PPTs while teaching poetries specially. It

will also give brief information of poetry and features of poetry.

The main objective of this paper is to give importance of PPTs as a helping tool to teach

poetry. It will also give some guidelines regarding how effective presentations may be made.

It does not give technical information. I hope this paper will be helpful in future research.

Key words:- Presentation, teaching, Effective understanding, PowerPoint, memory, skill,

imagination power etc

 Since the beginning of times there have been various assumptions and misconceptions about the three pound universe within our skull. Today this wondrous, mysterious and powerful human brain has emerged as a new field of study and this new paradigm has helped educationists in establishing connections between brain functions and traditional educational practices. Brain based learning is organized around some visual pattern and graphic organizers help in bringing up this associated information. In this paper the author focuses on one such graphic organizer i.e. Mind Mapping technique that can help foster this cognitive instruction along with some other effective principles of brain based learning. Key words: Brain Based Learning Mind Maps

 Conservation and improvement of Environment are vital for survival and well-being of

mankind. So the ultimate goal of Environment Education is to create awareness among the

citizens of the country. Hence the researcher decided to conduct the research on “A Study of

Environmental Awareness of Higher Middle class people”. The objectives of the Research

were to find the overall Environmental Awareness of the people above the age of 18 yrs. and

also to compare the Environmental Awareness of males and females above the age of 18 yrs.

The researcher decided to use the Survey method for this purpose. Out of all the adults

living in higher middle class families in Pune city, the researcher selected 30 people by

convenient sampling method. The researcher developed Multiple Choice Questionnaire

(MCQ) for collecting the responses on Environmental Awareness. After collecting the data

the researcher analyzed that general environmental awareness among the adults in higher

middle class families is not much satisfactory.

 Necessity is indeed the mother of invention. The genesis of all mathematical development

stems from practical needs. But soon it transcends the confines of its immediate utility.

Mathematics has always played and will always keep playing an important role in our day –

to – day life. Though the subject is very important it is always considered to be the most

difficult and fearful. The dryness of the subject can be contributed to the teaching of the

subject. It is also believed that mathematics is an exceptionally difficult subject, i.e., its study

requires special abilities and intelligence; therefore everybody should not be enough to learn

it successfully. References are made to low pass percentage in this subject in examinations.

The teaching of mathematics presents numerous day-to-day problems for the teaching of

mathematics. Due to inefficient and stereotyped methods of teaching, the subject is

sometimes decried as dull and dry. In the pedagogical study of mathematics we mainly

concern ourselves with two things; the manner in which the subject matter is arranged or the

method the way in which it is presented to the pupils or the mode of presentation. The aims of

Mathematics Education is not being satisfied by the traditional methods of teaching and

learning. Thus there is a need of transforming mathematics education. A positive attitude can

be developed if mathematics teaching - learning is made interesting, effective and childcentered

with proper incorporation of technological advancements in imparting the

knowledge of mathematics. Research has shown that the appropriate use of technology can

transform the traditional mathematics classroom into a dynamic learning environment where

the student is actively engaged in constructing mathematical concepts and knowledge.