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Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India This period of 900 years from 322 B.C. to 600 A.D. is full of philosophical excitement and innovation. Philosophers transformed old problems and introduced new ones, in such … Continue reading →

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India Marks are the bases for important decisions made by the student, teachers, councilors, parents, school administration and employers. They can also serve as incentive for increased motivation. Presently … Continue reading →

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India   Discovery learning is known as active learning because you participate actively in the learning process rather than passively receiving knowledge as if you are an empty vessel … Continue reading →

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India Expository teaching strategy is basically direct instruction. A teacher is in the front of the room lecturing and students are taking notes. Students are being told (expository learning), … Continue reading →

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India   The older positivism of Auguste Comte viewed human history as progressing through three stages: the religious, the metaphysical, and the scientific. His positivism was presented as articulating … Continue reading →

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India The business of education today is to teach the growing individuals, so far as their original natures will permit, to perform efficiently those activities that constitute the latest … Continue reading →

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India One can gain appreciable insights to the present day status of the field of instructional technology from examining its early beginnings and the origins of current practice. Programmed … Continue reading →

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India Ah, mastery… what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills… and then sees the light under the new door … Continue reading →

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India   I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk … Continue reading →

Dr. V.K.Maheshwari, M.A(Socio, Phil) B.Se. M. Ed, Ph.D Former Principal, K.L.D.A.V.(P.G) College, Roorkee, India       “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein In 1956, the American educational psychologist Robert M. Gagné proposed a … Continue reading →