THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE: REALLY “THE MAN OF CHARACTER”
Thomas Hardy, a Victorian realist, is one among the foremost creative writers, who made significant contributions to the lives of English people and English literature. Much of his work deals with the declining rural society, specially focusing on the struggles of all shades of Wessex peasants. Hardy’s characters are unforgettable. They stay enshrined in the hearts of sensitive souls. Hardy’s narrative powers, his powerful language, his sense of outrage at social injustice and his depiction of the English countryside make him an all time favourite.
Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge is a satirical novel meditating on the development of personal loss during the course of life. The novel is dominantly a satire on political and personal issues. The novel deals with some of the major humanistic issues prevalent in the nineteenth century England. Hardy chronicles the same through the character of Henchard. Henchard, the protagonist of the novel travels through different phases in his life where the persons and situations that he comes across outline one or another aspect of social life of nineteenth century England. The carefree attitude, the lack of ambition and a sense of inadequacy that he experiences during the initial stages of his life, his sense of disillusionment with life in general and in matters of love in particular, the irrelevance of the institution of marriage substantiated through the marital life of Henchard—these are some of the prominent attributes of life of nineteenth century England and Hardy has convincingly portrayed the same through the character of Henchard.
Keywords – Hardy – economic condition – marriage – nineteenth century – The Mayor of Casterbridge.
ISOLATION AND ORPHAN-HOOD IN RUSKIN BOND’S THE FUNERAL AND KELWINSIO’SLET’S GO HOME
Ruskin Bond and KelwinSio both the writers have written the stories on theme of death. Both the writers have explained the dark and terror of death in the simple way. In both the stories, the small innocent children of early age think about the death. They learn the lesson and tried to adjust in the life without the morale support of parents. This paper also presents the description of the children’s pleasant memories with their parents.
Keywords death, funeral, grief, pain, tears, mourners, grave, cemetery.
RECENT TRENDS ON OUTCOME BASED ENGINEERING EDUCATION SYSTEM
Learning outcomes of assessment Levels in Blooms Taxonomy is knowledge, understanding, function, study, synthesis and evaluation. This can be applied for course conclusion based education. Taxonomy of learning outcomes, writing learning outcomes (LO’s), discussion and mapping, Learning Outcomes (LO’s) to program Outcomes (Po’s) and can get the attainment level. Now everyone should know in the profession of teaching, what is a learning outcome? It is nothing but defining what kind of thinking and learning will happen in your classes. Suppose you are teaching a particular subject in the group of students, you should know the subject what is your teaching in the class and what extent you have to prepare. Prepare thoroughly the subject; expect what type of questions you might face. Pose questions on you on yourself. What do you do during class? What do students do during class? What students would act at the closing stages of teaching unit? Teaching strategies like over view of revision of previous class, brain storming to start the class, simultaneous reporting, un-sequencing, think–pair-share, snowballing, questioning and trouble shooting. Blooms Taxonomy Levels- one is knowledge (Information) Level (2) comprehension and understanding, Level (3) application (independent problem solving), level (4) Analysis (logical order, components), Level (5) synthesis (create) and level (6) evaluation (appreciation) all these six levels covers on outcome based education. How to identify the way I reached this level? What do I do at this level? How will teacher know I am at this level? What are the emblematic customs that I can exhibit my knowledge? What are the typical work products? To get solutions to these questions preparing program outcomes, course outcomes, mapping of PO’s to Co’s and find out the attainment level of the particular subject. This is with the help of conducting class tests, class quiz’s, giving assignments, midterm examinations and final examinations.
Keywords course outcomes (Co’s), learning outcomes (Lo’s), program outcomes (Po’s) and mapping.
THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT EKNATH’S COUPLET
The period of saint Eknath was 1533 to 1599. He was great saint of ‘Bhagwat Sect’ in 16 century. He was very clever, talented and the wisest one god, devotee. He was not only rich but also many qualities like love sympathy tolerance benevolentness. He had As he was resident of “Paithan” town in Marathwada he was greatly impressed by the culture of paithan town. As he was ancestrally belonas to Rigweda’s race he became talented and devotional. He preaches throughout his life. His work as reformer was great. It was not selfish. It was for peoples development. He put up ideal by making family and service. His Bhagwat was as qreat as Warkari sect’s Dnyaneshwari.
Bharud means, a reflective arama0-song which gives spiritual and moral teaching in Marathi. Saint Eknath explains that human’s heart get entangled in family and relationships, but these relationships are deceptive and alluring. He gave spiritual teaching through reflection of society. The above things are practiced through Bharood. He disliked superstitions and evil customs through Bharood assigning song. The things that could be explained through Bharood are political and religious condition in 1 century as well as people in the society and their life, the customs practiced in the society, the celebrated festivals other celebrations, routine games etc. The language of the Bharood a singing song was probably understood by people of different cast and creed.
CONTROL OF EMOTIONS AND BEING WELL IN ADULTHOOD
Control of emotions will be applicable to a person who understand and think about the emotions and continue with good strategies to manage the emotions if they are necessary and to continue with a good manner without hurting his or her emotions. It is said that if mind (mental strength) and body (physical strength) are in control we can gain anything and it leads to success. The main purpose to study this subject to know about the difference between Emotions control and Well-Being in adults with respective to age categories is i.e. 18- 35 years (early stage of adulthood) and 45- 60 years (late stage of adulthood). We collected a sample of 120 adults (i.e., 60 early adulthood and 60 late adulthood) was collected from various area of Hyderabad city through convenient sampling. Data was collected by using the two different tools, they are Emotional Regulation Questionnaire by GROSS, J.J., & JOHN, O.P. (2012) and other is Well-being Index by WHO. The collected data was randomly analyzed by the student’s t-test and SPSS 15.20 using mean, SD and ‘t’ test. By the results we know that the relation between the emotions and well-being is not strongly related in the adulthood. We also know that there is no difference in between the motional regulations with respect to age and gender. We found out significant difference in well-being with respect to age.
Key words: Emotional control/regulations, Emotional Reprisal, Emotional Suppression, Well-Being.
IS HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA AT THE CROSSROADS??
“Higher education” is today fast becoming a “commodity” by its very nature and is being strutted as a “package” which rids the educated from the ills of unemployment and poverty. The process of commercialization of education is paradoxically leading to its self destruction, and corrupting young minds through grossly mismanaged educational systems. This paper describes out a highly critical scenario of the higher education system in India, which the author believes is at the cross roads and is plagued by an uninspired/ill equipped academia, shortages in funding, progressively consumer driven market, entry of private enterprise, globalization and a variety of other concerns amidst the issue of long pending reforms which urgently needs to be addressed to bring about a meaningful restructuring of Indian higher education system and also provides critical perspectives on and valuable insights into, several issues concerning tertiary education that have not been examined so closely and argues the reflections over a period of higher education system that changes. India has one of the largest systems of higher education in the world. Since independence it has enormously expanded in terms of quantity and diversity of fields of knowledge. However, it has remained relatively unchanged insofar as the structure, the system of management and even functional objectives are concerned.
Key words: Education, Literacy, management.
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE IN LITERATURE WITH REFERENCE TO E M FORSTER’S WORKS
The importance of any topic lies in its narration. The art of story narration has many techniques. A story is defined as events narrated in the time- sequence. The structure of a story revolves around a character or a theme. Apparently it is all about what the character is, what he does under what circumstances and what the result is. The theme of the story has to be convincible to the audience.
Edward Morgan Forster who belonged to the fag end of the Victorian era and a liberal humanist was also a successful novelist. Three of his novels, ‘A Room with a View’, ‘Howards End’, and ‘A Passage to India’ have been made into films. In his Aspects of the Novel’, he gives a detailed manuals on the craft of storytelling. His insights, his observations are a primer in the essentials of storytelling. He emphasizes the relationship between character and incident and makes a clear distinction between story and plot. The most common method of narrating a story adopted by the novelist are – the direct or epic method of narration in which the novelist employs the third person narration, the autobiographical or the first person narration in which the narrator becomes one of the characters of the novel and the epistolary method which presents the story through a number of consecutive letters.
Forster relevance felt through his writings that are built on a strong conviction and belief that ‘each aspect of the novel demands a different quality in the reader’. According to him, a novelist explores the value of human experiences by developing the characters of the story. And these characters are connected with the plots. In his novels, protagonists ability to find a room of their own or the failure to do so, the significance of the caves’, the movement within and travel inside, even the echoes in the caves appear to be voicing some kind of relations. His novels are substantial explanations of mockery and seriousness, combinations of ancient and modern reappearing in the contemporary world.
Key words: narration, technique, character, human experiences, audience, story, plot
CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRIBAL CHILDREN EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS SPECIAL REFERENCE TO STATE OF M.P.
This article is focusing towards Education system of India and needs for policy reform with constitutional rights specially for tribal education in India. Need and policy reform for tribal education within the cave of constitutional rights and how to amend our articles according to social needs with the research findings are critically analyzed by using both primary and secondary sources of information. National Policy of Education in 1986 how far it able solve present educational needs form primary to secondary focuses towards Tribal Education are also studied. In the concluding part of the article focuses on present need and provision as per our constitution for exploration of both primary and secondary level Indian schooling system.
Key words: Tribal Education, Constitutional Rights, Articles, Quality of Education, Prospects of Learning.
A STUDY OF SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN SCIENCE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THANE CITY
Today we are living in the world of science. Science is a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific process or method in order to organize body of knowledge gained through research. In today’s scenario most of the students are choosing science as a major subject because of its scope. But it is very difficult to say that whether they have scientific attitude or not. In this Research researcher tried to find out the scientific attitude and significant difference in scientific attitude of the different Board students. Teachers and people predict that the students who have major scientific attitude will score more marks in science subject test i.e. his academic achievements in science will be higher. The willingness to collect and use evidence, willingness to change ideas in the light of evidence, willingness to review procedure is the indicators of scientific attitude. The science teacher is perhaps mainly responsible for developing scientific attitudes amongst the students and can help the students to score higher academic achievements. Thus we can say that scientific attitude and academic achievement in science are inter related with each other.
READING NEWS PAPER IS A RESOURCEFUL TEACHING TOOL IN ENGLISH CLASS ROOM
The newspaper is the most widely used means of communication [as a teaching tool in the classroom], the direct result of a national campaign by the editors, known as newspapers in education (NIE).Ten tremendous classroom activities that use the newspaper to teach all kinds of valuable skills — including reading and writing for meaning, the reading maps, media literacy, the sequence of the meaning of the word, and mathematics. Before the advent of the NIE, newspapers tended to be used only by the social studies teachers of secondary school in units of two weeks or sessions of current events for Friday. Now, however, the newspapers are used throughout the school year in each area of the curriculum of theEnglish language in the classroom. In tune with this real-world learning has a magnetic attraction for students. This is the reason that the newspaper is considered as one of the instruments of teaching English in the classroom, in addition to the regular course book. In addition to this, there is a large amount of information in the newspapers to make them an excellent springboard for the lessons. In this work an attempt has been made of how to use the newspaper of material for the teaching of English. In addition, focuses on different types of material that can be used to teach the vocabulary, grammar, critical and innovative thinking, and group dynamics. At the same time, it has been reflected on the use and abuse of the press material so that learning in the classroom will not create a pandemonium in the social, cultural, religious, linguistic and regional sentiments of the people.
Keywords: Globalization, Implications, Newspapers, Vocabulary, Grammar, Innovative Thinking, Pandemonium, Linguistic Sentiments.
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN HOSHANGABAD
The different educational concepts related to special training and skill development should be begin with broad bared spectrum in the region of Hoshangabad which facilitates horizontal and vertical articulation within the education system and between schools. Different policies were applied which include. focused on minorities education the special focused on girls and woman education, provision and Residential school and applied different excellence program which enhances the activities of students. these newly applied policies helpful for overcome the problems of illiteracy the newly adopted courses will give opportunities of under predetermined conditions, for professional growth, career improvement and lateral entry into courses of general technical and professional education through bridge course
Keywords: Illiteracy, professional growth, technical education, bridge course, Education in Hoshangabad
EDUCATIONAL STATUS OF VAN GUJJARS IN UTTARAKHAND
Education is a forceful instrument to change the values and attitude of people and to create in them the urge of necessary motivation to achieve social class ascendency and social mobility. Education transmits the culture from one generation to another. An integration of the old must take place with the new ones. The communities live in the present, on the past and for the future. This means that activities and experiences in the present have to be built on the past and the present will guide the activities of the future as education is the continuous reorganization and integration of the activities and experiences. “Education is a liberating force and in our age it is also a democratizing force cutting across the barriers of caste and class, something out of inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances…”(Indira Gandhi). Education as a means of advancement of capacity, well –being and opportunity is uncontested and more so among communities on the periphery of obligations”
One such community is of Van-Gujjars which is involved in animal husbandry and lives in forests of Uttarakhand, Himachal and Jammu&Kashmir. It is one of the most backward communities in our country and due to absence of education the Van-Gujjars are suffering from backwardness, social and economic disabilities. Van-Gujjars who generally live an isolated life are not treated well, nor cooperated with in time of need, which leads them to the back foot and restricts their admittance to the Government schemes. The community is in the grip of age-old culture, which affects it in many ways. Many of the traditional social evils are still prevalent among them. The youth and awakened people from the community wish to get out of it and some of them have even initiated the process.
Indian Government has put lot of efforts for their upliftment. In the last few decades the condition of life has changed in many ways for the pastoral Van Gujjar who have their winter camps in the interior of the forests of the Shiwalik foot hills of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in northern India. The paper attempts to study the educational status of the families of Van-Gujjar students especially in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand.
Keywords: Van- Gujjars, Educational status