Course-2.2.4_Sorbosomabisto Siksha ebong Sikshay Lingo Prasango (MEd_2nd Sem)

Author: Dr. Pranab Kumar Chakrabarti

Syllabus:

Unit-I: Inclusive Society: Overview

• What is meant by an inclusive society??

• Elements necessary for creating an inclusive society

• Exclusion and Inclusion in Education: Conceptual overview

• Understanding social inclusion: role of education

Unit-II: Educational Reforms for Inclusive Society

• Building an Inclusive school: desired changes in System, Structure, Practice and

• Culture,

• Education for a multicultural society,

• Principles of teaching and learning in a multicultural society.

• Education for peaceful co-existence

Unit-III: Assessment and Teaching Learning Strategies for the Disabled

• Need and process of early identification and assessment Special, Integrated and Inclusive Education

• Curriculum adjustment and adaptation, Classroom Management, Peer tutoring, assistive devices, Barrier free Environment and Teaching Strategies

• Vocational Training, Employment and Rehabilitation, Individualized Education Programme and Computer Assisted Instruction.

• Use of Information and Communication Technologies, Audio-Visual Aids, Multi-Sensory Approach, Individualized Education Programme, Computer assistive Instruction

Unit-IV: Concept & Historical Perspectives of Gender Issues

• Gender, sex, sexuality, patriarchy, masculinity and feminism.

• Gender bias, gender stereotyping, and empowerment.

• Equity and equality in relation with caste, class, religion, ethnicity regions.

• Historical backdrop: Some landmarks from social reform movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with focus on women?s education.

• Contemporary period: Recommendations of policy initiatives commissions and committees, schemes, programmes and plan.

Unit-V: Gender Identities and Socialisation Practices in

• Family

• Schools

• Other formal and informal organisation.

• Schooling of Girls:

• Inequalities and resistances (issues of access, retention and exclusion.

• Understanding the importance of addressing sexual harassment in family, neighbourhood and other formal and informal institutions.

Unit-VI: Curriculum and Gender Issues

• Curriculum and the gender question

• Construction of gender in curriculum framework since Independence: An analysis

• Gender and the hidden curriculum

• Gender in text and context (textbooks? inter-sectionality with other disciplines, classroom processes, including pedagogy)

• Teacher as an agent of change

• Development of life skill and sexuality