Understanding Education: an Overview

The book ‘UNDERSTANDING EDUCATION An Overview of Education’ is the result of author’s unique experiment of teaching different papers to his M.Ed. and B.E.d. Classes for more than 26 years. The author, in the beginning of every session, before teaching different papers allotted to him, used to devote at least seven or eight lectures to give an overview of Education to his students. The authors found that these lectures helped the students understand the specific papers in a better way. The book has been divided into very comprehensive but comprehensible chapters covering various aspect of Education, namely 1. Meaning, Nature and Bases of Education 2. Aims of Education 3. Educational Aims in India 4. The Curriculum 5. Methods of Teaching 6. Teaching Devices 7. AudioVisual Aids 8. Evaluation In this compact book of eight chapters, all the aspects on Education are logically integrated to form ONE UNIT, that will serve as foundation for better understanding various papers of M.Ed. B.E.d. and M.A. (Education) courses.