An Introduction to Education

Download or read book An Introduction to Education written by Dr. Syed Noor ul Amin and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is not just about being literate enough to read and write, it is about developing your perceptive and observational skills and constructively using them to deduce and infer, education is about becoming aware and making a positive contribution to our society and the world in which we live, it is about passing on the morals, values, literature, heritage, traditions and the vast scientific knowledge we gather in our time to the next generation. Education has never been a one dimensional process. It has always been an engaging triumvirate of teaching, learning and feedback assessment activities. And this is how mankind has developed. The whole subject matter of this book is prepared to keep the needs and aspiration of the learners in view to develop their personality in versatile ways. This book comprises fifteen units which provide the complete understanding of rudiments of education. The Author has attempted to make the ''An Introduction to Education'' interesting and simple so that the students to have conceptual clarity of education and its role for harmonious development of personality. The efforts have made that the learners get familiar with various aims and objectives of education and importance of education. The book provides the working knowledge of various agencies leading to education and enlightens the learners to be aware of the organization, structure and aims of the various levels of education. The book further put in the picture of the universalization of elementary education both in theory and practice. The successive chapter provides the complete understanding about methods and principles of the pre-primary education with special reference to the contribution of the Montessori and Froebel. Besides that the book provides the comprehensible understanding of educational psychology and formation and classification of emotions. Moreover the book puts thrust on the need of value education in present educational environment. The subject matter of the book determines the Educational significance of play and gives the psychological explanations of the habits and habit formation. The concluding chapters inform the learners about the worth and significance of environmental education, health education and acquainted learners with the elementary educational statistics. ''An Introduction to Education'' is designed to meet the requirements of all the apprentice of Education and Behaviour Sciences, especially prescribed for the students and teachers of education.