UGC NET Syllabus for ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION AND EXTENSION
UNIT- I
ADULT, CONTINUING EDUCATION & EXTENSION: INDIAN AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS
- Adult, Continuing Education: Pre and Post Independent India
- Adult Education Perspectives: Asian, Latin American, European and American
- Extension Education and Services in India: Phases and Movements
- Extension as “Third Dimension” of Higher Education, New approaches in Extension Education and Services in India, National Open school, Field organization practices
- Need, concept, types and characteristics of Lifelong Learning programmes in India
- Opportunities for Lifelong Learning and Extension
- Agencies in Lifelong Learning in and outside India
- Comparative Studies in Adult Education: Parameters, Trends and Analysis
UNIT- II
THEORETICAL AND FUNCTIONAL BASE OF ADULT EDUCATION
- Liberal, Behaviouristic, Progressive, Humanistic, Radical and Analytical approaches of Adult Education
- Social and educational perspectives of Tagore, Gandhi, Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, Ambedkar and other Indian thinkers
- Androgogy and Pedagogy
- Attributes and distinctive features of adult learning and development.
- Motivational aspects of adult learning, values in Adult Education, and challenges of contemporary society.
- Individual Vs. Group learning approaches in Adult Education
- Experiences and learning from agriculture, home science, community health and technology
- Learning needs of diverse group of adult learners
- Theories of adult learning
- Professionalization of adult education
- Prior learning: Concept, issues and challenges,
- Equivalence and academic credit for continuing education courses
UNIT- III
ALTERNATE LEARNING SYSTEMS
- Education: Status, challenges and alternatives
- Guidance and counselling: Individual and group counselling
- Emergence of distance learning, autonomous learning and online learning
- Transformational learning: Use of different media in education, ICT, World wide Web, Mobile technologies, multimedia packages, Computer Aided Learning (CAL), Audio-visual aids
- Digital India, Swayam, MOOC courses, UDAAN, e-library
- Virtual learners and virtual learning centers
- ICT in handling information: storage, retrieval and dissemination of information
- Online teaching, challenges and benefits of online learning
- Differentiated instructions in an online environment
UNIT- IV
CURRICULUM PLANNING AND TEACHING-LEARNING MATERIALS
- Meaning, definition of curriculum: need for curriculum, curriculum theory and practice
- Identification of needs and interests of lifelong learners
- Objectives of curriculum development
- Principles of curriculum development and its approaches
- Curriculum planning: need and implementation
- Evaluation: process-product-feedback mechanism
- Curriculum development-supporting systems
- Teaching methods
- Teaching and learning materials and aids for Lifelong Learning
- Preparation of books and audio visual material for neo-literates: processes, contents and field testing of materials
- Agencies engaged in preparation of materials, type of teaching-learning materials: print, on-line and off-line
UNIT- V
HUMAN RESEOURCE MANAGEMENT IN LIFELONG LEARNING AND EXTENSION
- Concept, principles and functions of management
- Programme planning, organisation and control
- Job specifications of personnel engaged in University-community engagement, Skill development, Continuing education & other extension programmes
- Training and development: Family-based, Off the job & on the job
- Training of functionaries in adult, continuing education, lifelong education through participatory approach
- Skill development imitatives : State-promoted, NGO-promoted and Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
- Field skills, teaching methods of adults, training methods for training for functionaries
- Management of a training programme
- Evaluation of social development programmes
UNIT- VI
COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
- Concept, methods and practices of communication
- Models: agriculture, community health, educational and social marketing
- Modes of communication; conventional and ICT-driven
- People’s participation in development
- People’s organisation (community based organisation, state promoted organisation)
- Programmes: individual centric and group centric
- Development communication planning and operationalization
- Emerging technologies in communication for social development
- Communication in extension: government, semi-government, non-government, corporate agencies etc,
UNIT- VII
SOCIAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONCERNS
- Development and its indicators, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- Population Education: Concept and paradigm shifts
- Social and distributive justice
- Issues of marginalization and pedagogy: women, tribals, minorities, transgender, aged and persons with disability
- Value based education
- Inequality in social system and social mobility,
- Interventions in specific concern areas of children, bonded labour and gender
- Interventions in general areas of concern: water, health, energy, disaster and environment
- Social and professional ethics.
UNIT -VIII
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT
- Concept, scope, policy and programmes of vocational education and skill development
- Market requirements and skilling status
- Operationalization of the concept of vocational education in adult, continuing education and Lifelong Learning through state supported structures like Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) and non-state supported structures of Industrial and Business houses.
- Emergence of Micro-enterprises like Self Help groups and Mega-enterprises like SEWA
- Skilling India: Skill sectors, National Skill Development policy, programme, and implementation mechanism.
- Structure of skilling programmes, certification and equivalence
- Make-In India, Start-up, Stand Up, Mudra Banks, Entrepreneurship
- Analysis of such efforts at micro and mega level.
UNIT- IX
RESEARCH AND RESEAERCH METHODS
- Philosophical Roots, history, elements and significance of social science research
- Qualitative and quantitative action research
- Research Design: Meaning and Types; Descriptive, Analytical, Exploratary, Basic, Applied, Action, Survey and case study research
- Sources of data: primary and secondary
- Collection of Secondary Data: Historical Documents, Archival Material, Published Sources, Journals, Internet Sources, Census, NSS and Statistical Reports.
- Population and Sampling, Data Collection and its tools, organisation of research, analysis, generalization and report writing
- Documentation and dissemination of the research work
- Content Analysis, Survey and Case studies
- Currents trends of research in adult and continuing education (national and international)
- Emerging areas of research in adult and continuing education and extension,
- Ethical concerns in social science research.
UNIT- X
LIFELONG LEARNING: THE FUTURISTIC VISION
- Beyond literacy and numeracy
- Resolving the dilemmas of institutional and non-institutional learning
- Localizing the learning and cultural context of a learner
- Harmonizing the skill of individual with the potential employers
- Personalized and customized educational opportunities of adult learner
- Network based learning
- Open option-based learning
- Building learning communities
- Search for an ever-evolving educational policy
- Towards a learning society
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