MGKVP BEd 1st Semester Syllabus

• Education & Philosophy: Meaning, Relation, Different forms of education and a new approach to philosophy; Branches of Philosophy- Metaphysics, Epistemology and Axiology and their Educational implications.
• Indian Philosophy and Education: Upanishadic Educational Philosophy Importance, Nature and its relevance. Importance of Buddhist Educational Philosophy- Nature and Educational Implications.

• Reflections on various schools of Educational Philosophy: Idealism, Naturalism, Realism, and Pragmatism in terms of aims of education, curriculum, teaching methods, and student-teacher relationship.
• Indian and Western Educational Philosophers: Shankaracharya, Mahatma Gandhi, Russel, and Annie Besant: Important implications for designing an effective educational system of Education.

MGKVP BEd 1st Semester Syllabus

• Education and Contemporary Indian Society: Education as a factor of social change, the role of family, school, and community in social change, Social system and education, the meaning of social system, functional and structural sub-systems, the role of education in the social system.
• National Integration and International Understanding: Meaning, aim, the role of education. Human rights: Meaning, aim, relevance and implications. Development of democracy and role of education, Fundamental Rights and Fundamental Duties in the constitution and role of education in the realization of these.

• Educational Planning and Economic Development: Meaning and role of educational planning. The new planning policy in India. Economic development: Meaning, aims, the role of education in economic development: Concent of education as a human investment and educational implications.
• Culture and Education: Meaning, the difference between Civilization and Culture, role of teaching in re-establishing culture. Value: Meaning, Indian values, and the role of the teacher in instilling Indian Values.

• Educational Psychology: Meaning, scope, and its relevance. Individual difference: Meaning, types, causes and educational implications.
• Psychology of development: Meaning of development, the difference between development & growth, characteristics related to cognitive, social, and emotional development during childhood & adolescence and their educational implications.

• Psychology of learning: Meaning, factors affecting learning, Transfer of learning: Meaning, types and its educational implications, Motivation: Meaning, various techniques for motivating the students.
• Theories of learning: Classical, Operant, Gestalt, and Cognitive theory of Piaget, main features and their educational implications.

• Psychology of intelligence: Meaning, concept, Theories of intelligence: Cognitive, associative and unitive. IQ, EQ and SQ: their implications for organizing teaching-learning processes. Use of intelligence tests and its limitations. Indian concept of intelligence.
• Psychology of adjustment: meaning, process of adjustment, characteristics of a well adjusted person. Stress: concept, coping mechanism and its educational implications for teacher & learner. Ensuring wellness life style: determinants of wellness and scales to measure wellness life style.

• Psychology of personality: Meaning, its Indian and Western conceptualizations, development of personality, measurement of personality.
• Psychology of exceptional children: Creative, gifted, slow learner and mentally retarded children-their characteristics and implications for providing education.

MGKVP BEd 1st Semester Syllabus

• Meaning of Gender and sex, Difference between Sex and Gender. Concept of Masculinity and Feminity Specific roles.
• Nature and characteristics of Indian society, Agency of Socialization: School family, community activity centers and hobby club.

MGKVP BEd 1st Semester Syllabus

• The emergence of Gender roles, Agencies of education with reference to gender: Family, community, school, and mass media.
• Gender Inequalities in Society: Causes and probable solutions, Concept of gender equality and equity. Influence of gender equality and empowerment of women.

• Co-education schools: Their strengths and weaknesses in the Indian Context. Gender inequality in the classroom: Co-education and single-sex schooling. The girl child in the Indian Society.
• Curriculum and teaching transactions: vulnerable areas for gender discrimination. Measures to provide discrimination-free school system, Incentives for the education of girls. Creationg gender inclusive classroom, teaching learning material and classroom transaction.

MGKVP BEd 1st Semester Syllabus

• The role of teachers in formulating positive notions about every gender among students. gender studies-shift from women studies to gender studies.
• Incentives of government to promote gender equality with special reference to women and transgender. Transgender-Concept, legal provisions and strategies for empowerment. Supreme court verdict about transgender.

• Action research: Meaning, importance, characteristics and objectives of action research,
• Concept of fundamental and applied research, Difference between traditional (fundamental and applied) research and action research.

MGKVP BEd 1st Semester Syllabus

• Action research for improving classroom and school-based programmes,
• Role of stakeholders in action research projects. Role of action research in improving organizational climate.

• Procedure of designing action research: Selection of problem, Formulation of action hypotheses and developing a suitable design for testing of such hypotheses,
• Evaluation of results in action research and their usage

• Developing school based projects for action research; Format of a project and its implementation. Determining intervention-based effects in terms of pre-post comparison Precautions needed.
• Formulating an action research-based report for the benefit of other practitioners.