The purpose of the study was to explore influence of the managerial practices of heads on the morale of teachers. The informants of the study comprised both public primary school heads and teachers. The study was mixed-methods and employed concurrent triangulation design. The Purdue Teacher Opinionaire (Bentley & Rempel, 1980) was adapted for…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the factors affecting the quality of technical education in a developing nation, India. Design/methodology/approach: Participants were 465 students and 310 faculty members who were randomly chosen from a total of 31 institutions/colleges/universities providing engineering education in Punjab state…

This paper examines the shifting relations between the family and the state in Indian education policy. It charts how family resources, responsibility, and participation have been variously called upon by the state across three historical conjunctures of education reform: the decades of post-independence planning for school expansion and…

Education system of India is full of intricacies of different nature. Every ladder of education has its own problems and prospects. However, attempts have been taken to lessen complexities. From ages, time to time commissions have been constituted to improve and remove the anomalies of Indian education system especially, ensuring quality and…

In this commentary, the author discusses the critique by Max Weber and his views on bureaucratisation of education. The modern school, said Max Weber (1864-1920) over a hundred years ago, has as its educational ideal the bureaucrat and no longer the cultivated elite of older times. The shift to modernity and to its characteristic institution, the…

This annotated bibliography on Indian educational material covers articles appearing in newspapers and periodicals during the period January to March 1972. One hundred sixty seven citations which cover subjects including basic education, higher education, history, special education, student selection, and teaching methods are included. Entries are…

Abstracts of articles appearing in periodicals and newspapers comprise this quarterly publication of annotated bibliographies on the subject of education in India. Some of the many topics, briefly described in ED 049 989, covered by the 182 documents include organization, curriculum and methods, educational psychology and sociology, teacher…

The Documentation Center has produced this annotated bibliography on education in India. Some of the many topics covered by the 394 Documents are: 1) educational administration and organization, policy and planning, the brain drain; 2) educational history, educational sociology, educational psychology, research; 3) curriculum, courses of study; 4)…

One hundred and sixty-five abstracts of articles appearing in periodicals and newspapers comprise this quarterly publication of annotated bibliographies on the subject of education in India. Some of the many topics covered by the documents include organization, curriculum and methods, educational psychology and sociology, academic achievement,…

Delegates from six countries (Bangladesh, Korea, India, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines) met in the Philippines in May-June 1979 at a UNESCO-sponsored conference to discuss development of productive skills through nonformal and alternative structures in education. The main part of the meeting was a series of reports of the nonformal…

One hundred and sixty abstracts of articles appearing in periodicals and newspapers make up this quarterly publication on education in India. Many topics are covered, some of which are policy and planning, academic achievement, administration and organization, adult education, curriculum and educational psychology. The abstracts are indexed by the…

This report, stressing India's National Policy on Education (1968), discusses the structure and content of India's educational system. This policy promotes education as a powerful instrument of social and economic change. It provides for the implementation of universal and free compulsory education; agricultural, technical, and adult education;…

The quarterly publication consists of one hundred and fifty-two abstracts of periodical and newspaper articles on education in India. Some of the many topics covered are courses of study, curriculum, examination and evaluation, guidance and counseling, technical and vocational education, educational psychology, teaching methods, and history. A…

One hundred and forty nine abstracts of articles appearing in periodicals and newspapers make up this quarterly publications on education in India. Many topics are covered, some of which are: adult education, finance, guidance and counselling, moral education, physical education, and history. A second longer section is on technical education. The…

This document contains 39 papers and 13 poster presentations from a conference on technological education and national development. The following are among the papers included: "The Future of Technological Education and Vocational Education: UNESCO's (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization's) Perspective" (Adnan…