Volume 3 Issue 1

TEACHERS’ATTITUDES TOWARDS INTEGRATION
Agnes Nemeth Toth
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How the teachers’attitudes have changed towards integration in the last two decades in Hungary? How do they think of SEN? Are they ready for the integration of students with special educational needs (SEN) or not yet? We were trying to find answers for these questions by carrying out a regional research focusing on teachers’opinion in Western Hungary. Some of the results are surprising while others are the ones we were expecting for.


LEARNING THROUGH COOPERATION
Kaushal Kishore
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The students in a traditional class of a school in India sit as passive learners with little chance to share their knowledge with their peers. This lack of space for dialogue and students' expression in classrooms is also remarked by the National Curriculum Framework, 2005. As a solution, the said document suggests that the structure of a class should be interactive. It says that in a class, interaction with teachers, with other peers of the same age group as well as those who are older and younger can open up many more rich learning possibilities. Cooperative learning approach is a right and suitable alternative to the traditional teaching approach which fits in to the needs of a classroom, as stated in NCF, 2005. It is an approach to instruction in which students work in small groups to help one another learn. Various researches in different countries all over the world support that cooperative learning enhances achievement in many subjects along with significant positive contribution in development or enhancement of various psychological attributes like interpersonal relations among peers, social acceptability among peers, interest, Present study examines the effectiveness of STAD, a method of cooperative learning, in terms of achievement in science. The sample consists of forty students of grade IX. A'two group pretest-posttest' design under quasi experimental design has been used to conduct the experiment. Data analyzed using ANCOVA reveal the significant effectiveness of cooperative learning. Students accept that learning science was more interesting and fun in a cooperative class.


ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS RESEARCH CHALLENGES
Rajesh Kumar
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Social Networks have undergone a dramatic growth in recent years. Such networks provide an extremely suitable space to instantly share multimedia information between individuals and their neighbors in the social graph. Social networks provide a powerful reflection of the structure and dynamics of the society of the 21st century and the interaction of the Internet generation with both technology and other people. Indeed, the dramatic growth of social multimedia and user generated content is revolutionizing all phases of the content value chain including production, processing, distribution and consumption. It also originated and brought to the multimedia sector a new underestimated and now critical aspect of science and technology: social interaction and networking. The importance of this new rapidly evolving research field is clearly evidenced by the many associated emerging technologies and applications including online content sharing services and communities, multimedia communication over the Internet, social multimedia search, interactive services and entertainment, health care and security applications. It has generated a new research area called social multimedia Computing, in which well established computing and multimedia networking technologies are brought together with emerging social media research.


CURRICULUM OFFERINGS AND ASPIRATIONS OF SCHOOL ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE OFSIERRALEONE
JOHNSON Adlyn O.
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This study was conceived to find out the relationship between curriculum offerings and the aspirations of school adolescent girls in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. The government of Sierra Leone has since 1995 through policy statements emphasized that affirmative actions will be taken to ensure that girls are encouraged to do formerly male stereotyped occupations in the technical and scientific areas of study. 8% of the population of girls in the final year at the JSS level formed the sample population. Primary data was obtained through the use of questionnaires. The responses as analyzed showed that there is a mismatch between curriculum offerings and the aspirations of girls. Adolescent girls are still trapped into the traditional stereotyped subjects in school even as they are professing that they would like to newnew more technologically relevant subjects. It is important that the government and major stakeholders in the education of girls ensure that girls have better opportunities to pursue the professions that they would like to pursue by expanding the curriculum and by putting into place affirmative actions to ensure that aspirations match their current curriculum offerings.


THE ATTITUDES OF THE CZECH STUDENTS TO E-LEARNING IN THE LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE
Milan KLEMENT
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At present, the use of information and communication technologies in education at all types of schools is becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies bring many positive effects which appropriately complement and support the process of education. Some modern forms of study, applied at Czech as well as foreign universities, are even based on the use of information and communication technologies. Above all, this regards education realized through e-learning with information, curriculum, control incentives and communication being transmitted by means of modern communication technologies and using the World Wide Web, called simply the Internet. The study presents the attitudes of university students towards e-learning, as one of the up-to-date forms of education, within the framework of their undergraduate studies. It also illustrates the course of the research investigation, carried out from the year 2007 to 2011, and submits some of the outputs. The main objective of the above mentioned investigation having been to determine the preferences and opinions about the form, the organization of e-learning and about the tools applied, the present study is conceived as a contribution to the discussion about the possibilities and limits of the use of a fully electronic learning within the framework of the undergraduate and lifelong learning, based on the use of modern information and communication technologies.


INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS AFFECTING UTILIZATION OFEDUCATIONALOPPORTUNITIES BYTHE MUSLIMS - ASTUDY
Aiyaz Ahmad Khan
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In this paper investigator tried to explore the institutional related factors which hinder Muslim students in utilizing educational opportunities. The study was conducted in four districts i.e. Azamgarh, Ghazipur, Mau and Varanasi of eastern Uttar Pradesh. The sample of the study was 24 urban schools (12 Boys schools and 12 Girls Schools), 6 from each of the four districts through random sampling technique. A self made questionnaire for principal was used to assess the institutional related factors. It clearly revealed that institutional related factors like non availability of Urdu medium of instruction, high pupil-teacher ratio, absence of parent-teacher meeting and group fighting were discouraged the Muslim students in utilizing educational opportunities.


A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL STUDENTS OFAGRACITY
Anjna Agarwal
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The major aim of this paper is to investigate the environmental awareness of Intermediate school students of Agra city. For this purpose 280 students were selected through the stratified random sampling technique. Students were assessed using the Environment Awareness Scale prepared by the researcher. Results indicated that there was significant difference between science and arts group students in their level of environmental awareness. Significant difference was found among students in the level of environmental awareness with regard to their gender. Also type of school was found significantly related to students' environmental awareness. It was also found that modern Mass Media is a powerful instrument in creating environmental awareness among students.


ACCOUNTABILITY IN EARLY INTERVENTION: CONCEPTUALIZING THE MEASUREMENT OF CHILD AND FAMILYOUTCOMES
Varsha Shrikant Gathoo
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Accountability in early intervention calls for an obligation and willingness to accept responsibility towards progress of young children with disabilities. The purpose of this paper is to ponder over the issue of imparting quality services in early intervention programs so as to bring about accountability on the part of early intervention centers and professionals. Four questions pertinent to practices in early intervention are discussed with an aim to generate a think tank for a possible state or national accreditation for monitoring outcomes of early intervention programs in India.


MOBILE LEARNING: CHANGING FACE OF EDUCATION IN ODL SYSTEM
Kaushal Sharma, B.C. Mahapatra & Belay Hagos
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Keeping the objectives of the national goal, ICT has adopted the technology based education system from elementary level to higher education system. The concept of globalization with a wide coverage area, teczhnology based education is the real media which can fulfil the need of globalization and National Goal. For quite some time now, ICT has been a critical component of the educational experience, creating opportunities for students


COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH LEARNING COMMUNITY APPROACH: DEVISING STRATEGY FOR HEALTH PROMOTION
Rajesh Kumar
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Health promotion communication encompass a broad range of activities and approaches which focus on individual, community and all other stakeholders and also on environmental influences on behaviour. Bringing about changes in behaviour is critical for the success of health promotion programmes which may be related to such themes as HIV/AIDS education, safe drinking water habits, reproductive and child health issues etc. However, changing attitude and behaviour, especially of adults is not an easy task. Therefore, a definite communication strategy has to be evolved, formulated and implemented for effecting changes in behaviour of the target group. This paper tries to devise a strategy for health education aimed at health promotion of the community which is an important purpose of community development. The strategy thus talked, analyzed and formulated here is based on the premises that community participation is essential for development. Communication for health promotion is a process that is crucial for community development.


ROLE OF PERSONALITY TRAITS IN DETERMINING TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
Bhavana Anand and Himani Anand
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Personality factors have an important role to play in teacher effectiveness. This paper presents findings of a survey conducted on teachers. The sample consisted of 100 teachers selected from the secondary schools in the city of Haridwar. The age range of the teachers was from 35-45 years. Coefficient of correlation and multiple regression analysis was applied to examine the contribution of the predictor variables in the determination of criterion variable. Result shows that there exists significant positive relationship between activity trait and teacher effectiveness (r = .70), assertive trait and teacher effectiveness (r= .62), trusting trait and teacher effectiveness (r= .71), non-depressive trait and teacher effectiveness (r= .70) and emotional-stability trait and teacher effectiveness (r= .75). Multiple regression analysis revealed that all five predictor variables positively contribute to the teacher effectiveness. It shows that when the activity, assertive, trusting, non-depressive and emotionalstability traits are high it would result in high teacher effectiveness. But there is a negative relationship was found between enthusiastic trait and teacher effectiveness (r = -.62). It shows that as the enthusiastic trait increase teacher effectiveness would decrease. Teaching Effectiveness depends upon the overall personality and its traits.


PERSONALITY AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE CORRELATES OF BURNOUT AMONG SCHOOL TEACHERS OFHARYANA
Renuka Sharma and Umed Singh
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Present study was conducted to explore the personality and emotional intelligence correlates of burnout, for which 150 high school teachers (ranging in age from 26 to 55 with the mean age of 40.5 years) were selected from various Government and Private schools of Rohtak and Bhiwani Districts of Haryana. Selected teachers were administered with Maslach Burnout Inventory, NEO- Five Factor Inventory and Multi –Dimensional Measure of Emotional Intelligence. Obtained data were analysed by applying descriptive statistics i.e. Mean, SD Skewness and Kurtoses to ascertain the normalcy of data: and Product Movement Method of Correlation, and Principle component Factor Analysis. Both Pearson's correlations and Principle Component Analysis have revealed Neuroticism, Extraversion and Conscientiousness to be significant personality correlates of Burnout. Among the components of Emotional Intelligence, Self Awareness, Managing Emotions, Motivating one-self and Handling Relations have marked significant relationship with teacher burnout. Measures of Personality and Emotional Intelligence have marked differential relationship with three components of teacher burnout.


EFFECT OFYOGAON CARDIO RESPIRATORYSYSTEM AND BODY COMPOSITION OF TRIBAL COLLEGE STUDENTS
Gopal Chandra Saha
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of yoga on Cardio Respiratory system and Body Composition of tribal College Students. Sixty tribal College Students age ranging from 18 to 22 years of Seva Bharati Sikhayatan, Kapgari, West Bengal were selected as the subject for the study. The subject was randomly distributed in two groups. One group is designated as experimental group and other one as control group. The study was restricted to the following variables: Vital Capacity, Resting Pulse Rate, Breath Holding Time, Blood Pressure and Body Composition. Sarvangasana, Halasana, Naukasana, Bhujangasana, Dhanurasana, Ustrasana, Gomukasana, Paschimatasana, Ardha-Matsyendrasana, Savasana and Pranayama was used for Yogic training. Analysis of covariance was applied to study the effect of Yoga on Cardio Respiratory System and Body Composition and are significant at P<0.05. A long term effect of yoga proved useful and significant differences was observed in Vital Capacity, Resting Pulse Rate, Breath Holding Time, Blood Pressure and Body Composition.


RELATIONSHIP OF SELECTED KINEMATIC VARIABLES WITH THE PERFORMANCE ON STANDING LONG JUMP
Jogiswar Goswami
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RELATIONSHIPAMONG SWIMMING PERFORMANCE, BODY COMPOSITION AND SOMATOTYPE IN COMPETITIVE MALE AGE GROUP (10-14 YEARS) SWIMMERS
Amrish Tony
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So far the sports performance is concerned; body fat%, lean body mass (fat free mass) and body type play an important role. An athlete who is carrying excess weight may be more prone to injury when performing difficult skill than the athlete with a more optimal body composition. Competitive swimming is an interaction of number of factors like morphological, physiological, biochemical, biomechanical and psychological. The aim of the present study is to find out the relationship among selected morphological parameters like height, weight, body fat%, lean body mass, somatotype and swimming performance. The present study also aimed to find out the potential deficiencies if any and to undertake remedial measures to overcome the training stresses. Thirty age group (10-14 years) swimmers undergoing training under specialised coaches were selected in the present study. The morphological variables and performance criterion like 50 meter swimming time and speed were measured by using standard training methodology. Correlation coefficient among body composition, somatotype and performance variables were computed by using standard statistical package SPSS. Mean height, weight, fat% and lean body mass of the present group is 150.97±8.68 cm., 44.0±9.34 kg., 15.97±4.42 % and 37.10±8.77 kg respectively. Somatotype of the young swimmers of the present study is depicted ectomorphic mesomorph. The analysis of the results revealed that swimming performance is significantly correlated (p<0.05) with height, body weight, mesomorphoic component and lean body mass. Body fat is significantly and negatively correlated (p<0.05) with mesomorphic component, lean body mass and swimming speed. From this present study it can be concluded that apart from techniques and tactics the physical attributes play an important role in swimming performance which can help the swimmers to achieve excellence in higher level of competition and swimmers having better morphological qualities can obviously perform better.


COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PERSONAL STRESS BETWEEN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND NON PHYSICALSTUDENTS
Rajesh Dhauta
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The purpose of the present study was to compare the personal stress between physical education students and non-physical education students. The available literature on research work so far done in the field of sports psychology indicates that stress is more researched than any other area of the field. Researchers have studied stress level of physical education and nonphysical education students. The Singh Personal Stress Sources Inventory (SPSSI), consisted of 35 questions were used for the study. 15 Physical Education students and 15 Non-Physical Education students were selected randomly as subjects from Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida (U.P.). The data was collected and statistically analyses by using 't' ratio at 0.05 level of significance. The research indicated that the level of stress of physical education students and non-physical education students was significantly different at 0.05 level of significance. The study was also showed that physical education students have less personal stress than non-physical education students.


A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BOUT ANALYSIS AMONG FEMALE JUDO PLAYERS IN DIFFERENT WEIGHT CATEGORIES OF OLYMPIC GAMES 2008 BEIJING CHINA
Deepak Singh Kushwah
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The purpose of the study was to analyze the bouts of female judo players participated in different weight categories in Olympic Games 2008 held at Beijing China. The parameters on which the bout analysis done were the duration of bout, manners of winning, and technique. The duration of bout was consist of the time duration of a single bout taken, manner of winning is consist of the scores ippon, 2x waza-ari, waza-ari, yuko, koka, and the penalties awarded to the contestants, and techniques was consist of the techniques which were used in all bout under the study as: Koshi-waza (Hip technique), Ashiwaza (Leg technique), Te-waza (Hand technique), Atme-waza (Grappling technique). To facilitate this study pre-quarter final and above 15 bouts were selected from each weight categories. The documents made available by the organizers of the Beijing Olympic Games constituted the material for this study. 45 bouts between the female contestants were analyzed in the respective 3 above mentioned weight categories. The data pertaining to all selected parameters for bout analysis were collected by analyzing the video recording of bouts of each weight categories from the Olympic Judo Tournament (Beijing 2008). The significance of the mean difference between the different weight categories in the relation of the duration of bout researcher has statistically analyze by one way analysis of variance (ANOVA). For another two parameters; manner of winning, and techniques were analyzed by the descriptive analysis because for these two parameters researcher could not took data in a numeric manner.