Education Syllabus for APSC (Mains) Examination
Education is one of the optional subjects in the Assam Civil Services Combined Competitive (Mains) Examination, which is conducted by Assam Public Service Commission (APSC). Find here full Education Syllabus for APSC Combined Competitive Examination (Mains) – Paper I and Paper II.
Education Syllabus for APSC Assam Civil Services (Mains) Examination:
EDUCATION PAPER I
Part I
- Meaning, definition and scope of education, Aims – individual, social, liberal, vocational and Harmonious development of education, Aims of education in a democracy.
- School and community— their relations, functions and responsibilities.
- Curriculum, Definition and types of curricula, defects of present curriculum, principles of curriculum construction, Importance of correlation of studies. Cocurricular activities types and their values in education.
- Freedom and discipline Importance of freedom in education, Free discipline, relation between freedom and discipline. Discipline meaning types and its importance, Reward and punishment.
- Teacher qualities of a teacher, importance of his personality, Functions of teacher in school. Material education needed for teaching.
- Theories of play, play methods in education.
- Education for international understanding and national integration.
Part II
- Psychology meaning, scope and definition, its importance in education, Methods of educational psychology.
- Physical basis of mental life. Importance of sensation, perception and conception.
- Adolescence its significance and problems.
- Emotions and instincts their importance in education, Importance of needs, drives and motives.
- Learning meaning and importance, laws of learning, efficiency in learning.
- Image and imagination, its importance in education.
- Memory— meaning and types of memory, cause of forgetting, attention and its relation to interest.
- Intelligence— its meaning and nature.
- Statistics in education — calculation of mean, medium and mode, standard deviation and quartile deviation, Coefficient of correlation by rank difference methods.
EDUCATION PAPER II
- Charter Act of 1813
- Anglicist — classicist controversy Macculay’s minute and Lord Bentinck’s resolution of 1835.
- Wood’s Despatch of 1854— its effects on Indian education.
- Indian Education Commission of 1882— primary and secondary education.
- Lord Curzon’s educational policy— Primary, Secondary and University education.
- Gokhale’s Bill on primary education resolution of 1913.
- Hartog committees report of 1929.
- Wardha Scheme of Education 1937, its implementation in India.
- Primary education Act of Assam 1926, problems in the Universalisation of primary education in Assam.
- Adult education — problems in the implementation of adult education programme— objectives and Aims of NAEP.
- Women education— is importance, problems in the implementation of the education programmes for the women their solution.
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