About the Book

Education An Introduction

Education, in a very general sense can be summed up at a basic level as referring to an experience or act that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In the sense that it is formative means that education is serving to form something and particularly something that will have a long lasting effect on the person's mind and faculties. The most obvious example of this is the ability to understand and use language and mathematics a skill which is then utilized throughout an individual's life. Education is usually understood as a course of study to acquire a body of knowledge or skills undertaken to enhance one's ability to do a particular job and be able to earn more money. The more liberal definitions of education, where it is understood as the development and refinement of one's personality, without necessarily an eye to economic advantage, have been out of use for long, and one finds only scattered instances of the practice of education with such aims. Even so, what has been envisaged for Auroville is far beyond and above the goals set by liberal education. This book has been written primarily for students. Other potential readers who have been kept in mind in preparing the book are the following: students in other departments or colleges who wish an overview of the field of education, but who are not specializing in the field ; teachers in service who desire a new orientation or who wish to bring their professional knowledge up-to-date. CONTENTS : (1)Aims and Objectives of Education (2)Meaning of Education (3)Education: The Main Instrument of Change (4)Education and Modernization (5)Curriculum in Formal Schooling (6)Legal Education in India (7)The Education of Adolescents (8)Significance of Educational Psychology to the Teacher (9)Theories and Practices in Educational Technology (10) Variables of Teaching.