AHSEC 2nd Year Syllabus 2024-25 Education

EDUCATION
SYLLABUS FOR HIGHER SECONDARY COURSE
Introduction :
Education is a triune concept having three connotation– a process, a product and a discipline. Educa-
tion as a discipline in an organized body of knowledge which deals with issues of what, why, how, who and
even when in the educational process. Thus, as a subject of study ‘Education’ deals with such questions of
context, reasons and methods and timing in the process of education as well as the background of the indi-
vidual to be educated. These questions are under different specialization within the broader field of Education.
The need of the subject ‘Education’ is felt, basically, for professional growth of teacher as well as those
assciated with various areas of education system. The Higher secondary course in ‘Education’ is to be treated
as a preparatory course leading to the higher study in the subject. Therefore, general objective of this course
is to provide a general understanding of the basic and fundamental concepts of the subject and to create an
appreciation towards the subject.
Specific Objectives :
The specific objectives of Higher Secondary Second year course are–
(a) to acquaint the students with the developmental trend of Secondary Education in India as well as in Assam.
(b) to make students familiar with the system of Non-formal Education as an alternative mode of formal education.
(c) to acquaint the students with different current trends in Education.
(d) to develop an understanding among the students about the psychological process of learning.
(e) to familarize students with the mental processes of memory, attention and interest as important elements
in learning process.
(f) to make students aware about the importance of mental health and hygiene.
(g) to introduce students with the elementary statistical techniques.

EDUCATION
SYLLABUS FOR HIGHER SECONDARY FINAL YEAR COURSE
One Paper Time : Three Hours Marks 100
Unitwise Distribution of Marks and Periods :
Unit No. Title Marks Periods
Unit-I Development of Secondary Education in India and Assam
(Post Independence Period) 15 30
Unit-II Non-formal Education 10 20
Unit-III Current Trends in Education 15 30
Unit-IV Learning 15 30

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Unit-V Memory, Forgetting, Attention and interest 15 30
Unit-VI Mental Health and Hygiene 10 20
Unit-VII Elementary Educational Statistics 20 40
Total 100 200
Unitwise Distribution of Course contents :
Unit-I : Secondary Education in India and Assam
(Post Independence Period) :
(a) Mudaliar Commission–
• Defects of education
• Aims of education
(b) Kothari Commission–
• Aims of education
• Structural pattern
• Vocationalisation of Secondary Education
(c) National Policy of Education 1986– Salient Features
(d) Secondary Education in Assam in Post Independence Period
• Development after independence
• Problems of Secondary Education in Assam
Unit-II : Non-formal Education
(a) Non-formal Education
• Meaning, definition, Objective, scope and Characteristics of Non-formal Education
• Importance of Non-formal Education
(b) Correspondence Education– Meaning, definition, objective and importance
(c) Distance Education– Meaning, definition objective, nature and importance
(d) Open Education– Meaning, objective, merits and demerits
(e) Open University– Meaning, objective and development of Open University
Unit-III : Current Trands in Education
(a) Environmental Education
• Concept, Objective and Scope
• Need and Importance
• Principles of Environmental Education
• Environmental Education in Educational institutions.
(b) Population Education
• Concept, Objectives and Characteristics
• Population Education in Educational institutions
(c) Physical Education

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• Physical Education in Educational institutions
(d) Value Education
• Meaning and characteristics
• Value Education in Educational institutions
(e) Women empowerment
• Status of women in Indian Educational system
• Education for women empowerment
Unit-IV : Learning
• Meaning, nature and characteristics
• Learning and maturation
• Factors of learning
• Methods of learning–
– Trial and error
– Learning by conditioning
– Insightful learning
• Major laws of learning and their Educational significance
Unit-V : Memory, Foregetting, Attention and interest
(a) Memory and forgetting
• Meaning and characteristics of Memory
• The process of memorization
• Types and marks of good memory
• Improvement of memory
• Meaning of forgetting
• Causes of forgetting
• Role of teacher in improvement of memory.
(b) Attention and interest
• Meaning and characteristics of attention
• Determinants (conditions) of attention
• Types of attention
• Interest– Meaning, Sources and Types
• Relation between attention and interest
• Educational significance of attention and interest
Unit-VI : Mental Health and Hygiene
(a) Mental health
• Meaning and characteristics
• Characteristics of a mentally healthy person
(b) Mental hygiene
• Meaning, Objective and Scope

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• Functions of Mental Hygiene
• Home environment and Mental health
• Mental health and school
Unit-VII : Educational Statistics
(a) Concept of Statistics, Uses of statistics in Education and Psychology
(b) Statistical methods–
• Tabulation of data Frequency distribution table
• Graphic representation of data- meaning advantages and rules –Histogram and polygon
• Diagram-Bar diagram and Pie diagram
(c) Measures of Central Tendency
• Meaning and uses
• Various measures of Central Tendency (mean, median and mode) –Their meaning, uses, mer-
its and demerits
• Calculation of mean, median and mode– from grouped and ungrouped data (In case of mean
both long and short method)
(d) Measures of variability
• Meaning and uses
• Various measures of variability
• Range-meaning, uses, merits-demerits and calculation
• Quartile Deviation– meaning, uses, merits-demerits and calculation

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