Educational Policy and Planning in Contemporary India 📚
🎯 Objectives
- Understand the education policy and its determinants. 📜
- Identify and apply various approaches of educational planning. 📊
- Analyze the functioning of administrative bodies. 🏛️
- Critically analyze recent education policies. 🧐
📘 Syllabus
SECTION-A
- Education Policy: meaning and policy determinants. 📖
- Policy formulation: Role of MHRD, NCERT, NASSCOM. 🏢
- Education Planning and Financing: concept, need, types, approaches, principles of financing. 📊
- Education Administration and Supervision, role of central state and Non-governmental bodies. 🏛️
SECTION-B
- Policy recommendations regarding school - National Education Commission (1964-66). 🏫
- Major recommendations regarding NPE-2020. 📘
- National Knowledge Commission (2005): Policy recommendations. 🌍
- Birla Ambani report on privatization of Higher education. 📚
- Skill Development Mission (2014). 💼
Activities (Any one of the following)
- Preparing budget estimate for an elementary school with 200 students, 6 teachers, and 4 supporting staff. 💰
- Study of mid-day meal practices in the school and suggestions for further improvement. 🍽️
- Study of the availability of textbooks and students' school bag contents. 📚
📚 Books Recommended
- Naik, J.P. (1965). Educational Planning in India. New Delhi: Allied. 📘
- Basu, Aparna (1972). Essays in the History of Indian Education. New Delhi: Concept. 📗
- Dharmpal (1983). The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century. Delhi: Biblia Impex. 📕
- Drèze, J., and A.K. Sen (1995). Basic Education as a Political Issue, Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 9 (1) (January): 1-26. 📙
- Government of India (1950). Constitution of India. New Delhi. 📘
- Government of India (1985). The Challenge of Education. New Delhi, Ministry of Human Resource Development (Mimeo). 📗
- Government of India (1986). National Policy on Education 1986. New Delhi: Ministry of Human Resource Development. 📙
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