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- Title
SCIENCE TEACHING AND GENERAL EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS IN INDIA - 1959.
- Authors
Brown, Stanley B.; Brown, L. Barbara
- Abstract
This article presents the status of India's science teaching and general education program in 1959. In the past, the British introduced a formal educational system in the country with the aim of producing assistants who could help in clerical jobs and similar vocational pursuits. Presently, there are two major types of schools in the country: the British-influenced traditional and the Mahatma Gandhi-inspired basic. Science teaching at the elementary level consists of nature study with emphasis on a textbook-centered program. At the secondary school level, the most part are highly theoretical and predominately physical science-oriented. Some of the problems with the Indian educational system include financing of facilities and materials, varied dialects and tribal customs, and teacher shortage.
- Subjects
INDIA; SCIENCE education; INSTRUCTIONAL systems; CURRICULUM; GENERAL education; SCIENCE; EDUCATIONAL sociology; EDUCATION
- Publication
Science Education, 1959, Vol 43, Issue 3, p240
- ISSN
0036-8326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sce.3730430313