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Class 12 Education Chapter 3 Current Trends in Education
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Questions for 3 mark each
1) What are the components of the environment ?
Ans:- environment can be divided into three parts.
Those are :-
i) natural environment :- it includes air, water, tree, forests, rivers, plans etc.
ii) social environment :- it includes all the socio – economic influence affecting mankind as population growth, employment, culture etc.
iii) man made environment :- it includes village, city, institutions, industries, roads, buildings, agriculture, transport etc.
2) what are social values ?
Ans:- value education is related to the good of every individual. This education helps in the realisation of the vision of the society.
There are certain values which help in the promotion of society to bring Dorials efficiency are termed as social values. It can be imparted directly or indirectly through family, school, peer group, community, media and general ethics of the society.
3) What are values ? Define.
Ans:- A value is what is desired or what is sought. Values are certain guiding principles of life that help in the physical, mental and social development of the individual. They are in tune with one’s culture.
4) What is women empowerment ?
Ans:- women empowerment emphasizes the importance of increasing their power and taking control over decisions and issues that shape their lives.
Women’s Empowerment addresses power and relationships in society intertwined with gender, class, race, ethnicity, age, culture and history. Power is identified with equity and equality for women and men in access to resources, participation in decision making and control over distribution of resources and benefits.
5) mention three important areas covered within the scope of environmental education.
Ans:- population explanation and its impact upon environment. Environmental awareness.
Standard of living and health condition and effect of environment on it.
6) explain the meaning of environmental awareness.
Ans:- the meaning of environmental awareness is to help the social groups and individuals acquire an awareness of and sensitivity e to the total environment and its allied problems.
7) should population education be imparted in schools ? Why?
Ans:- yes, population education. Should be imparted in school. Population education should start from the early classes and should continue in the secondary and higher secondary stages. Thus population education should be a continuous process. It is desirable that small children even in the primary classes should be made conscious about the scarcity of means, in the vastness of demands. As the later States, the idea may be developed and more details may be furnished, so that the students may accept this education in a natural manner.
8) discuss the relationship between education and women empowerment.
Ans:- women empowerment emphasizes this importance increasing their power and taking control and over decisions and issues that shape their lives. Education, in this context is an important tool. Through providing proper education illiteracy can be removed among the women folk. Education works as an agent in bringing changes in the status of women education make aware regarding their constitutional and legal rights both in work and social life. For inculcating the values of gender equality and gender justice education plays a vital role. So education in women empowerment have good relationship.
Questions for 4 mark each
1) How can Environmental education be imparted in an education institution ?
Ans:- principles which an educational institution follow providing Environmental education are :-
i) Environmental education helps in programming learning experiences from simple to complex. For e.g. children look at a bird, so that eating figs or insects or watch it flying. All this gives them some awareness of the eating and flying habits of birds.
ii) Environmental education helps children to proceed from indefinite ideas to definite ones. An infant for e.g. is not able to distinguish between colors, but as it grows, it learns to discriminate among different shades.
iii) Environmental education helps children to proceed from concrete to abstract. Since the environment is full of concrete things which children may examine and classify and interpret and then draw their own conclusions and inferences about them.
iv) Environmental education has social relevance – relevance to mens interaction with his physical and social environment, its relevance to changing human attitudes which cause man to hate man and beget hatred on one or the other ground namely caste, creed, colour and religion etc.
2) Why is population education needed ?
Ans:- need of population education :-
i) population education helps in removing blind beliefs that exist in the minds of people. For the maintenance of quality like this education is very essential.
ii) population education is essential for improving the quality of general education.
iii) population education studies on the problems arising from population explosion and the measures to cope with them.
iv) Population education helps in establishing equality of sexes by helping women to acquire their rightful status and become equal to their made counterparts.
v) it is essential for creating a responsible citizen.
3) does modern physical education differ from the ancient period? How?
Ans:- it is said that physical education should be included in the first ten years of school education. For the proper development of body, mind and spirit, health and physical Education including games and sports should be included in both the causes and end evaluation of performance of the students.
At the upper primary stage, exercises, gymnastics, athletics, judo, yoga, drill, scouting and guiding etc, should be introduced. These options should be made available subject to the facilities available and the learners performance. In health education, prohibition should be made for creation among learners and awareness related to common health problems, safety measures, nutritional problems, first aid, sanitation and pollution.
At the high school stage, athletics, gymnastics, yoga, meditation, swimming etc to be included in the course of physical education camping and various team games and competitions should be introduced in both upper primary and high school stages. NCC, guiding, scouting, social service should be added to the compulsory programmes of physical education. In health education stress should be given on maintenance of proper health, impact of environmental pollution on health, food and nutrition, control and prevention of diseases and so on.
4) what are the principles of environmental education ?
Ans:- the objectives of environmental education are :-
i) acquire basic understanding of the interrelationships of components and factors of the environment and the processes that occur in it.
ii) develop desirable values and attitudes, especially concern and responsibility towards the conservation and enhancement of the environment.
iii) acquire and refine skills in identifying, assessing in solving environmental problems.
iv) develop a sense of urgency in responding to environmental issues and problems and taking actions towards their solution.
5) why is women empowerment essential ?
Ans:- i) women are generally found to be economically weak in our country. Only an insignificant number of women that too in the urban areas, are economically dependent on men and this fact has made them weaker. They require economics independence to be on par with men.
ii) most of the underdeveloped and developing countries, women are found to be less literate than men and this has forced them to become dependent among men in India is 76 % whereas it is only 64 % among women. The rate of school dropouts is also found to be comparatively higher in case of women. Lack of education is the main cause of their exploitation and negligence. Only literacy can help them to understand the constitutional and legislative provisions that are made to strengthen them.
6) Environmental education is education from environment, education about environment, education for environment, – discuss.
Ans:- today it is becoming increasingly important to combat the danger inherent in the growing deterioration of our environment pollution of air, water in soils, psychological, and mental aberrations resulting from the mechanizations of life, the artificial and violet stimuli as noise, depletion of nonrenewable resources, increasing contents of chemicals in human and animal food and their lethal effects, deterioration of natural conditions and ecological balance and the life activities detrimental to natural environment.
Environmental education is the first and foremost step in saving the environment from further deterioration. As such the real task of the day is to make the people aware, create interest and involvement in them to provide basic knowledge about man nature interaction and its effect to adopt recommended measures for maintaining the ecological balance.
No programme of rational environmental management can be successful until and unless the common people are familiar with the theory, principal and practical methods of safeguarding and using rationally the National resources and improving man’s environmental conditions. Hence, EE here’s most important rule to play in solving the major problems of environmental deterioration and of nature conservation.
Essentially interdisciplinary approach and is exprossive of appreciation of interrelatedness of social, cultural, political, economic and technological awareness in man with the geological, atmosphere and biological system of nature. However it is desirable to have a conscious learning of this relatedness at all stages of formal education. Thus the traditional faculties of a university have it grouped together in a school system for important environmental education. It has to be an interfaculty or a super faculty programme.
7) describe different modes for providing physical education school.
Ans:- it is said that physical education should be included in the first 10 years of school education. For the proper development of body, mind and spirit, physical education including games and sports should be included in both the causes and evaluation of performance of the students.
At the upper primary stage exercise, gymnastics, jado, yoga, drill, scouting and guiding etc. Should be introduced. These options should be made available subject to the facilities available and the learners performance. In health education.
Provision should be made for creation among learners of an unawareness related to common health problems, safety measure nutritional problems, first aid, sanitation and pollution.
At the high school level, athletics, gymnastics, yoga, meditation, swimming, etc, are to be included in the course of physical education camping and various team games and competitions should be introduced in both upper primary and high school stages. NCC guiding, scouting, social service should be added to the compulsory programmes of physical education. In health education stress should be given on maintenance of proper health, impact of environmental pollution on health, food and nutrition, control and prevention of diseases and so on.
8) Point out the characteristics of environmental education.
Ans:- the characteristics of environmental education are as follows :-
a) Environmental education should be continuous and never ending process.
b) Environmental education should be a lifelong process from birth to till the last moment of death.
c) It should pay special attention to the complexity of environmental problems.
d) it should have social relevance.
9) What are the objectives of environmental education ?
Ans:- the objectives of environmental education are as under :-
a) to awaken the world population with Environment and the related problems.
b) to help in the development of awakening and sensitivity towards Environment and its related problems.
c) to help the individual to understand the natural relationship between man and environment.
d) to create a feeling of responsibility among individuals towards Environment.
10) what are the objectives of women empowerment ?
Ans:- the objectives of women empowerment are as follows :-
a) physical, mental, spiritual, moral, intellectual, social, political development of women.
b) to develop and expose the hidden talent of women.
c) to develop the cultural ability of women.
d) to improve the social status of women.
11) describe different elements of Environment.
Ans:- different elements of Environment are :-
i) physical elements such as land, air and water.
ii) biological elements such as plants and animals.
iii) social elements such as Population, social system, social relations, urbanisation, social change etc.
iv) cultural elements such as political, economic, social, moral values of life, religion etc.
v) energy elements such as solar energy, geo – thermal energy etc.
12) explain the relationship between education and environment.
Ans:- It can be said that education is a process as well as a product. As a process, education can be considered a lifelong process where the modification of behaviour of an individual is a result of the interaction with the environment constituted learning. As a product education helps an individual to acquire knowledge, skills, attitudes etc. Which are the product of group life. Education becomes a product when it is used as an assimilation of the culture of any society, and its transmission from 1 generation to another.
13) discuss the rule of co curricular activities in imparting Environmental education among students.
Ans:- the co curricular activities played an important role in Environmental education.The teaching strategies of Environmental education can be used to provide awareness, developing skills and attitudes towards the environment but active participation in problem solving and protection in conservation is equally important area of environmental education. Various co-curricular activities can be organised as the most important and appropriate means for providing such opportunities to the students.
The co curricular activities can be organised through various programmes :-
i) to clean the environment in and outside the school through NSS camps.
ii) to grow plants and develop gardens for the protection of the environment.
iii) to clean the public places, park etc.
iv) to construct roads in the village areas by organising NSS camps, scout and guide camps etc.
v) to help the villagers to dig pits for waste management and also to teach them how the bio – degradable and non – degradable waste should be managed.
14) what is the role of a teacher in imparting Environmental education in educational institutions ?
Ans:- the teacher can play an important rule in implementing the programmes and realising the objectives of environmental education as well as organise various co-curricular activities in the school and out – side the school. Teachers should possess the abilities of organising effectively the curricular and co curricular activities.
In this context the education commission and national education policy 1986 recommended to main educational programmes :-
a) National social service scheme (NSS)
b) socially useful productive work (SUPW).
15) discuss four important aspects in the areas of environmental education.
Ans:- four important aspects in the area of environmental education are as follows :-
i) population explanation and its impact on environment.
ii) problem of environmental pollution and its preventive measures.
iii) environmental degradation and measures for controlling, development and protection of environment degradation.
iv) formation of men’s attitudes and values towards environmental protection and intimate love for the environment.
16) discuss the rule of physical education in developing self confidence and inculcating team spirit.
Ans:- physical education helps to develop qualities like self confidence, mental alertness, self control, courage, resourcefulness etc. Physical activities including play, make us feel active and alert. The pupils play and perform activities according to certain rules. Introduction of physical education in the primary and high school stage helps call developing team spirit, attitude of leadership, obedience, cooperation, sympathy, integrity etc. Of students along with physical, mental, spiritual and social development. Physical education also helps in the formation of students character and personality.
| Sl. No. | Contents |
| Chapter 1 | Secondary Education in India and Assam |
| Chapter 2 | Non-Formal Education |
| Chapter 3 | Current Trends in Education |
| Chapter 4 | Learning |
| Chapter 5 | (A) Memory and Forgetting |
| Chapter 5 | (B) Attention and Interest |
| Chapter 6 | Mental Health & Hygiene |
| Chapter 7 | Educational Statistics |
17) elucidate the status of women in India society.
Ans:- the best creation of God on the earth is men and women. The selective moments presented to men and women by the creator is equal to both. Therefore there must be equal partnership between men and women and respect for human dignity must permeate all activities. Swami Vivekanand had said, ” as a bird cannot fly on one wing, no society can make progress useless for its women to join men in all activities”.
This statement has rightly made clear the importance of women in awaaz society. Jawaharlal Nehru had stated long back that “educating a man is educating a family”. Education improves women’s status within the family and also equips them to play any role in the wider context.
The mother is called the first teacher of the child. The mother is the key to the quality of the next generation. This shows that education of women is of paramount importance for the progress of society. According to the 2011 census report, the total literacy rate of India is 74.04%, where women literacy rate is 65.46% and men is 82.14% . the Government of India adopted a national policy of education for women empowerment such as :-
i) to preserve 33% seats for women.
ii) Establishing ‘women bank’ women should be engaged in all types of activities.
18) How population education helps the learners ?
Ans:- population education help the learners are as follows :-
i) it helps the learners to create awareness about the impact of rapid growth of population on socio – economic condition, on social life, on human and environment.
ii) it is essential for creating a responsible citizen to the learners.
iii) it helps in removing the superstition and beliefs from the minds of people.
iv) it also helps the learners for maintaining quality and standard of life.
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