Book Review - പ്രാചീന ഇന്ത്യ : ആര്‍. എസ്. ശര്‍മ്മ.

ഭാരത ചരിത്രത്തിന്റെ സുപ്രധാനമായ മുഹൂർത്തങ്ങളെ ലോകരാഷ്ട്രങ്ങളുടെ മുന്നിൽ അവിസ്മരണീയമാക്കിയ അതുല്യപ്രതിഭയാണ് ആർ .എസ് .ശര്‍മ്മ.
         ഭാരതത്തിന്റെ  സാംസ്കാരികവും പൈതൃകവും ആഴങ്ങളിൽ വേരോടിയിരിക്കുന്ന പഴമയുടെ നറും മണ്ണിലേക്ക് അതിവ ജിജ്ഞാനലുവായി ആകാംക്ഷയോടെ ഉറ്റുനോക്കുന്ന ഒരു വ്യക്തി എന്ന നിലയിൽ ഞാൻ വായിക്കാൻ തെരെഞ്ഞെടുത്ത പുസ്തകമാണ് ആർ. എസ്. ശര്‍മ്മയുടെ "പ്രാചീന ഇന്ത്യ ".ഓരോ സംഭവ പരമ്പരകളെയും അതിസൂക്ഷമമായി വിശകലനം ചെയ്ത് അധ്യായങ്ങളായി തിരിച്ചത് വായനക്കാരൻ എന്ന നിലയിൽ എനിക്ക് ഉപകാരമായി. ഒരു തർജ്ജിമ ഗ്രന്ഥമായിട്ടും മൂലഗ്രന്ഥത്തിന്റെ സത്ത ഒട്ടും ചോർന്നു പോകതൊ പകർത്തി എഴുതാൻ വിവർത്തനകാരനായ സെനു കുര്യൻ ജോര്‍ജ്ജിന് കഴിഞ്ഞിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഒരേസമയം പഠിതാവിനും ,വായനക്കാരനും,ചരിത്രന്വേഷിക്കും റഫറൻസിന് തെരയുന്ന വ്യക്തിക്കുമെല്ലാം ഒരു പോലെ പ്രയോജനപ്രദമാണ് ആർ. എസ്. ശര്‍മ്മയുടെ "പ്രാചീന ഇന്ത്യ "എന്ന ഗ്രന്ഥം എന്ന കാര്യം നിസ്തർക്കമാണ്.

Capacity Building Programme

Capacity Building Programme is a conceptual approach to social as personal the develop that focuses on understanding the obstacles that inhibit people,governments,international organizations and non -governmental organizations from exalizing their Developmental ideas while enhancing the abilities that will allow them to achieve measurable and sustainable result.
As a part of our B. Ed curriculum our college opt the topic Capacity Building Programme. Under Capacity Building Programme,  the skill of self awareness is selected. Proper guidance on the topic was given by mrs.  Shameema. She mainly provided us to activities.
      The first one was to make a note on our personal details.
       The second activity under self awareness programme was that, she provided as a key which contains some positive and negative statements and we select our own positives and negatives and also the same characteristics of two of our peers.

     In our groups also these are three subjects.

EDU 02: Developmental Perspectives of the Learner -MCQ

1. I am primarily interested in thinking processess; I am a ________ psychologist?
a. Cognitive       b. Learning
c.  Personality   d. Perception
Ans: a
2. Of the following, who is associated with the Gestalt school of psychology?
a. Pavlov            b. Watson
c. Skinner          d. Max wertheimer
Ans: d
3. "The whole is greater than the sum of its part " is represented by which of the following?
a. The Gestalt psychology
b. The Behaviorists
c. The Structuralists
d. The Functionalists
Ans: a
4. Psychologists are all_______?
a. Scientists         b. Practitioners
c. Both scientists and practitioners
d. Either scientists or practitioners
Ans: d
5. Of the following who was a structuralist?
a. Skinner               b. Watson
c. William James     d. Wilhelm Wundt
Ans : d
6.Behaviorism helped make psychology a _________
a. Fad                        b. Science
c. Specialty               d. Behaviour
Ans : b
7. The kind of theraphy developed by Freud is called
a. S-R theraphy
b. Gestalt theraphy
c. Psychoanalysis
d. Behavior modification.
Ans: c
8. The founder of first psychological laboratory was
a. J. B  Watson            b. Skinner
c. Sigmund Freud      d. Wilhelm Wundt
Ans : d
9. ----------psychology is concerned with thinking language and problem solving
a. Behaviorists          b. Humanistic
c. Psychoanalytic      d. Cognitive
Ans : d
10. William James wrote principles of psychology and founded
a. Structuralism     b. Behaviorism
c. Functionalism     d.Humaniam
Ans : c
11. Howard Gardner theorizes that there are _________ different kinds of intelligence
a.   8        b.  3    c.  120   d.   2
Ans : 8
12. According to Freud the energy from life instincts that drives personality is called the
a. Ego               b. Libido
c. Life force    d. Eros
Ans : b
13. I Q may be defined as
a. MA/CA×100        b. CA/MA×100
b. MA/100×CA        d.  MA×CA×100
Ans : a
14. Manu has a mental age of 8 and a chronological age of 10.  Manu's IQ is
a. 108     b. 125   c.  80    d. 92
Ans: c
15. During the first year of life the child is said to go through the________ stage
a. Oral                b. Anal
c. Genital          d. Phallic
Ans: a

EDU. 05.10 :Pedagogic Content Knowledge Analysis -Social Science -MCQ TEST BATTERY

1. Pedagogy is the study of
a. Education
b. Learning process
c. Teaching methods
d. Guiding student
Ans: c
2. The word pedagogy means
a.  To understand the child
b. To guide the child
c. To educate the child
d. To lead the child
Ans: d
3. Micro teaching focuses on the competency over
a. method          b. Skills
c. Contents       d. None of above
Ans : b
4. Why is teaching training necessary
a. Increase teaching skills
b. Understand methods of school organization
c. Upgrade knowledge of content
d. All the above
Ans : d
5. Micro teaching is a
a. Teacher method
b. Motivational technique
c. Teaching training technique
d. None of the above
Ans : c
6. What is the time of presentation in micro teaching?
a. 1-5 min            b. 5-10 min
c. 10-15 min        d. 20-40 min
Ans : b
7. Micro teaching is useful to students of
a. Primary class only
b. Junior classes only
c. 10+2 classes only
d.  Higher classes and primary class both
Ans : d
8. An example of project Aid
a. OHP              b. CA
c.  Museum      d. Photographs
Ans: a
9. ----------- is a free open source tool
a. Web               b. Computer
c. Telephone     d. Resource map
Ans : d
10. -------- contains the months, various units their objectives and the number of period.
a. Year plan            b. Unit plan
c. Lesson plan        d. All of the above
Ans : a

EDU:01 Knowledge and curriculum : philosophical and sociological perspectives MCQ

1. What is the origin of the word Education ?
a. 'E ' and 'catum' b. 'Edu' and 'catum'
c.  Word Educate    d. None of these.
Ans: a
2. What is called education acquired without any specific purpose, fixed period and place?
a. Indirect Education
b. Individual Education
C. Informal Education
d. Formal Education
Ans: c
3. What are the three components of the educational process?
a. Education, teacher and books
b. Teacher, student and education
c. Teaching,learning and practice
d. Direction, instruction and skill
Ans:b
4. What is teaching through deductive method?
a. From general to specific
b. From specific to general
c. From macro to micro
d. From easy to difficult
Ans: a
5. Which is the first school for a child's education?
a. Society            b. Friends
c. Family             d. School
Ans: c
6. Who was the supporter of Naturalism in Education?
a. Frobel              b. Armstrong
c. John locke        d. Rousseau
Ans:d
7. What is the main center of informal Education?
a. Society           
b. Family
c. Radio and television
d. All of the above
Ans:d
8. Who raised the slogan "back to nature"?
a. Realism            b. Pragmatism
c. Naturalism      d. Humanism
Ans: c
9. Religious education is strongly advocated by
a. Pragmatists   b. Idealists
c. Realist            d. Existentialists
Ans: b
10. Which school of philosophy of education advocated project method of teaching?
a. Realism            b. Pragmatism
c. Idealism           d. Naturalism
Ans: b
11. Play way method of teaching has been emphasised in the scheme of the education of
a. Naturalists    b. Realists
b. Pragmatists  d. Existentialists
Ans: a
12. Who emphasized that education should be a social process?
a. Viveakandha   b. Rousseau
c. Dewey             d. Pestalozzi
Ans: c
13. Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of
a. Education      b.  Learning
c. Knowledge     d. Philosophy of education
Ans : c
14. What was the relation between Plato and Aristotle?
a. Plato was student of Aristotle
b. Aristotle was student of Plato
c. Plato and Aristotle were brothers
d. Plato and Aristotle were colleagues
Ans: b
15. According to famous philosophers teaching is a/an
a. Art                b. Arts
c. Science         d. Technique
Ans: a
16. Education is the creation of a sound body is the saying of?
a. Plato            b. Comens
c. Aristotle     d. Dewey
Ans: c
17. Which one is not the source of formal education?
a. School           b. Museum
c. Library         d. Home
Ans : d
18. The literal meaning of philosophy is?
a. Love of knowledge
b. Love of truth
c. Love of values
d. Love of wisdom
Ans: d
19. Eclecticism means borrowing beliefs from?
a. One philosophy
b. Two philosophy
c. Three philosophy
d. Different philosophy
Ans : d
20. Who said "No fixed aims of education and no values in advance "?
a. Progressive educators
b. Idealists
c. Realists
d. Marxists
Ans: a

EDU 04.1O- Theoretical Base of Social Science Education - MCQ Test Battery

1. The goal of teaching is
a. To give information
b. To involve pupils in activities
c. To impart knowledge
d. Desirable change in behavior
Ans: d
2. Students are passive in
a. Project method
b. Discussion method
c. Lecture method
d. Demonstration method
Ans : c
3. The number of domains in taxonomies of educational objective is
a.  Two               b. Three
c. Five               d. Six
Ans : b
4. The intellectual skills are reflected by
a. Cognitive Domain
b. Affective  Domain
c. Psychomotor Domain
d.  None of the above
Ans : a
5. The Psychomotor domain involves
a. Learning         b. Knowledge
c. Manner           d. Physical movement
Ans : d
6. The rules of presenting the contents to make them easy are called.
a. Method of teaching
b. Maxims of teaching
c. Teaching strategies
d.  Techniques of teaching
Ans : b
7. Affective domain is divided into
a. Four subgroups     b. Five subgroups
c. Six subgroups       d. Seven subgroups
Ans : b
8. The characteristic of behavioral objective is
a. Observable and immeasurable
b. Non- observable
c. Observable and measurable
d. Noneof above
Ans : c
9. Students find the informations themselves in
a. Lecture method
b. Discovery method
c. Both                      d. None
Ans : b
10. Teaching techniques in the social sciences could involve
a. Role playing        b. Lectures
c. Projects              d. All of these
Ans : d

EDU 03: Technology and communication in education -MCQ

1. It comes from the Greek word "techne " which means an art or craft.
a. Technique    b. Technology
c. Technician   d. Telepathy
Ans : b
2. The use of technology to enhance learning process is called --------in education?
a. IT             b. ICT
c. Information technology
d. Communication technology
Ans : b
3. Information technology  (IT) Act 2000 came into force on?
a. 17 October 2000    b. 9 June 2000
c. 1 June 2000           d. 1 October 2000
Ans : a
4. Which of the following is Doordarshan's educational television channel?
a. Gurukul                 b. Gyan Bharati
c. Gyan Darshan       d. Vidya
Ans: c
5. Who is known as the father of modern media education.
a. Edger Dale       b. Flanders
c. Erikson             d. Charles Babbage
Ans: a
6. Method used to transfer information to far off places instantly is called
a. Data          b. Information technology
c. Language d. Tele communication
Ans :d
7. Which of these is used to exchange message with other similar to a postal mail.
a. E-mail        b. News groups
c. Chatting    d. M-commerce
Ans: a
8. Which of these is not a component of a computer network?
a. Sender         b. Protocol
c. Speakers     d. Data
Ans :c
9. The website address of UGC is
a. WWW. Ugc.Org     b. WWW.Ugc. in
c.  WWW.Ugc.ac.in   d. WWW. Ugc.com
Ans:c
10. Who inaugurated VICTERS?
a. APJ. Abdul kalam   
b. Dr. Manmohan singh
c. AK Antony
d. Dr. Madhavan
Ans :a
11. Computer assisted instruction is based on --------principle
a. Classical conditioning
b. Operant conditioning
c. Pavlovian conditioning
d. Sender conditioning
Ans: b
12. None - verbal communication does not involve
a. Gestures         b. Space
c. Words              d. Silence
Ans: c
13. Audio visual aids helps --------students in the class
a. Slow learning       b. Playful
c. Intelligent           d. Curious
Ans : a
14. Term E-mail stands for
a. Emergency mail    b. Extra mail
c. Electronic mail      d. External mail
Ans: c
15. Medium which sends information from source to receiver is called
a. Transmission channel   b. Optic fiber
c. Transmitter                 d. Receiver
Ans: a
16. Expanded form of LTD
a.  Liquid crystal display
b. Liqfied crystal display
c. Liquid cathode display
d. Light cathode display
Ans : a
17. Website is a collection of
a. Audio files       b. Image files
c. Video files       d. HTML  files
Ans: d
18. Choose the storage device from the following
a. UPS              b. Printer
c. Magnetic    d. Scanner
Ans : a
19. --------- is a spreadsheet programme
a.  MS Word           b. MS Excel
c. MS Dos              d. MS PowerPoint
Ans: b
20. -----------was the first district wide e-literacy project in India.
a. C- DIT           b. IT @ school
c. NIC                d. Akshaya
Ans: d