ADULT EDUCATION NET SYLLABUS

Preparation of UGC NET/JRF/SET

UGC NET Syllabus for ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION AND EXTENSION

Table of Contents

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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.

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.

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.