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curriculum-concepts-nature-purposes and principles

  Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand … Continue reading

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Critical Appraisal of Existing Curriculum / Syllabus

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know. John Taylor … Continue reading

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Hilda Taba- Contribution in Educational Technology

    Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India Hilda Taba is known worldwide as an outstanding American educator and curriculum theorist, she was born, brought up and educated in Estonia. Taba, belongs to the … Continue reading

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Gestalt Theory- The Insight Learning

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India Learning means to bring changes in the behaviour of the organism. It is very difficult to give a universally acceptable explanation of learning because various theories developed by … Continue reading

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Concept of curriculum development

  Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India “It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum-“ Woodrow T Wilson As per the modern thinking, education is a … Continue reading

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THE AIMS AND IDEALS OF EDUCATION IN ANCIENT INDIA

  Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V. (P.G) College, Roorkee, India From the Vedic age downwards the main conception of education of the Indians has been that it is a source of illumination that gives a correct … Continue reading

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ZARATHUSTRA and Ahura-Mazda, the Bible of Persia

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India Many languages have been used in the long history of Persia. The speech of the court and the nobility in the days of Darius I was Old Persian … Continue reading

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Sanskrit and English-Amazing Relationship

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India On a more public level the statement that Sanskrit is a dead language is misleading, for Sanskrit is quite obviously not as dead as other dead languages and … Continue reading

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Primitive communism- Causes of its disappearance

  Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India Primitive communism is a concept originating from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hunter-gather societies of the past practiced forms of communism. In Marx’s model of socioeconomic … Continue reading

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UPANISHADS – The foundation of Indian Philosophy

  Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Sc. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India “In the whole world,” said Schopenhauer, “there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of … Continue reading

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