Contents: -


unit - I
Knowledge and Methods of Enquiry

1. Disciplinary Knowledge : Nature and Scope

2. Interdisciplinary Knowledge ; Nature Scope and Need

3. Knowledge as Construction of Experience and Example from School Subjects

4. Knowledge as distinct from Information : Case Examples from School subjects

5. Meaning and Types of Methods of Inquiry

6. Language, School, Relation, Power, Identity and Thinking (Relationship and Interface with knowledge)

Unit -2
Learner and Their Contexts

7. Inerface Between Knowledge, Subjects, Curriculum, Textbooks, Linguistic Background of learners exercise

8. Alternative Framework of Children's Thinking

9. Child and Adult Misconceptions (Meaning, Scope in a Classroom Processes to be used to Dispel Misconceptions)

10. Everyday concepts and Situated Cognition

11. Pedagogical Perspective and Concerns Inclusive Education in India

Unit -3
Pedagogic Practice and the Process of learning

12. Critical Examination of Terminology and Notion Associated with Child Centered Education

13. Critical Understanding of Standardized Pedagogic Methods (Concept Information, Enquiry-based Learning, project-based, Learining etc.)