E4 Education

USE OF LOCAL/COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE (And Learners’ Own Experiences In The Teaching Learning Process (Constructivist Perspective)) What is Local Knowledge/Community Knowledge? You may wonder that if schools prescribe textbook in social sciences, what is the purpose of using local/community knowledge in the transaction of learning experiences. Is there any scope for incorporating local knowledge in our teaching-learning strategies? As you know that the aim of education is to relate the knowledge imparted in the school to the children’s own world. Our children will learn better if the content is related to them. This connection is possible through contextual learning or situating learning in the context of the children’s world. There is a need to have close association between school and children’s local environment. If there is porous boundary between school and their environment then they recognize themselves as proactive participants in the learning process. Then they express thei...

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT – FREUD’S THEORY WHAT IS PERSONALITY?             The first and the foremost objective of this lesson is to understand the exact meaning of the word personality. The word personality originated from the Latin word ‘persona’ meaning ‘mask’. This mask referred to the theatrical mask of performers projecting various roles by disguising their identity. As personality does not have one final definition, it could be defined in various ways. But now let us see how the term personality is defined in relation to its focus – whether the focus is on an individual on human beings as a whole.                          When the focus is on human beings as a whole the term personality is defined as observable psychological variations among the individuals. It would include appearance and build in physi...