Course-2.2.2_Sikshar Samajtattik Prekhhit (MEd_2nd Sem)

Authors: Dr. Mihir Kumar Chatterjee, Dr. Chaitanya Mondal, Mr. Pranay Pandey

Syllabus:

Unit-I: Sociological Perspectives of Education

• Concept of sociology and educational sociology

• Relationship between sociology and education

• Educational sociology: nature, scope, function, and its importance

• Social Organization: Concept and factors of influence

• Dynamic characteristics of social organizations and their Educational Implications.

Unit-II: Functions of Education for Social Change

• Social change: Meaning, nature and impact on Modernization, Development and Technology.

• Relationship between Education and social change.

• Factors (agencies) promoting social change: Family, religion, school and media.

• Social stratification: Meaning, nature, types and factors

• Social change and impact of Modernization , Technology and DevelopmentPrinciples of teaching and learning in a multicultural society.

• Education for peaceful co-existence.

Unit-III: Role of Education for Socialization

• Concept and nature of socialization.

• Role of education in the process of socialization.

• Agents of socialization: family, school, religion, community, politics, culture, and economy.

• Education as a social system, as a social process and a process of social progress.

• Socialization and Caste, Class, Language, Religion, population and regionalism.

Unit-IV: Current trends and impact of Education: Democracy,? LPG, ?Social mobility and allied issues

• Education and Democracy: Concept of secularism and its Educational implications.

• Globalization and privatization: Concept, Overview of their impact on education and society.

• Politicization of education: political control, interference in the institutional administration.

• Education as a potential equalizing social force: Equality of educational opportunities.

• Meaning, factors and types in social mobility: Role of education in social mobility.

• Education for socially and economically disadvantaged section of society with special reference to: Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, Women, Transgender and Rural population.