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Gleanings Articles on Educational Psychology)
1. Chattopadhyaya, D.P. The right is learning'. University News, 28 (18) pp. 11-12.
The conotation of the word "education" is that one gives and the other takes it. But the right word is learning. In the process of learning one need not always depend on the teachers. One can learn from nature, from one's own society and tradition and mostly from one's own experiences. Self learning is the highest from of learning, the consummation of education. 2. Menon, M.G.K. The role of education'. University News, 27 (23) pp. 27-30.
The role of education is to transform static society into one vibrant with a commitment to change and development. This implies the emergence of a learning society, in which people of all ages and all sections not only have access to education but also get involved in the process of continuing education. Open, non-formal, part-time and adult education must be as meaningful as formal education. These two streams must reinforce each other.
3. Venkataramiah, E.S- The secret of teaching'. University News, 27 (52) pp. 11-13.
The essential truth about teaching is that it is a one to one encounter. Even when a teacher speaks to a large class, the spark of success is lit when the individual student sitting in the middest of a large number of others like to believe that the teacher is addressing him and others, even if present, are there only by accident, otherwise too, what is being said is addressed to him and him alone.
4. Mohanty, S. B. 'Effective classroom management in higher education'. University News, 27 (49) pp. 6-9.
The classroom management strategies identified are (1) knowledge of students and their backgrounds, (2) mastery over content area, (3) appropriate method of teaching, (4) witness of the teacher, (5) purposeful with holding and focussing of attention, (6) appropriate use of reward and punishment, (7) use of homour, (8) use of questions, (9) sensitiveness to student responses, (10) fairness in dealing and (11) democratic approach. A teacher will automatically become aware of these strategies and utilise them to improve the classroom
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