Syllabus
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Course Code: 815 Course Name: Group - II (iv) COURSE-6 & 7 PEDAGOGY OF HISTORY |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | 1. NATURE, SCOPE, AIMS, AND OBJECTIVES OF HISTORY • Meaning, Nature, Scope of history. Importance of time & space in history • Place of history in secondary and senior secondary level school curriculum • Aims, objectives and values of teaching history • Bloom‟s taxonomy to formulate objectives in behavioural terms • Co-relation of history with other school subjects. Relation of history with present. • Classification of history according to geographical boundaries, period and circumstances. |
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| 2 | 2. PEDAGOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CONTENT AND LESSON PLANNING
• Meaning and importance of pedagogical analysis • Points followed for pedagogical analysis: (i) Identification of concept (ii) Listing behavioural outcomes (iii) Listing activities & Experiments (iv) Listing evaluation techniques. • Some content for pedagogical analysis: a) Indus valley civilization b) Ashoka The Great c) Mughal dynesty d) First war of independence (1857 A.D.) , e) Freedom movement and modern India • Lesson planning: Need and importance, steps involved in lesson planning, features of a good lesson planning. |
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| 3 | 3. TEACHING-LEARNING RESOURSES AND HELPING MATERIALS • Curriculum and instructional material: Need for development and designing curriculum in history. • Principles of curriculum construction, organization of content in history curriculum according to stages of education. • Development of history text-book, characteristics of a good text book, need of text- book for teaching history. • Identifying controversial points of history, analytical teaching of such points. • Meaning, importance and use of helping material, types of helping material • Selection of helping material: Maps, time lines, flow charts, battle plans, pictures, film-strips, models, computer & internet, radio, T.V. etc. |
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| 4 | 4. APPROACHES AND EVALUATION • Approaches, methods and techniques of teaching history – need and importance, selection of method to teach specific content. • Various methods of teaching history: source method, discussion method, lecture-cum- story telling method, dramatization, project method, teaching through field trips and excursions. • Meaning, objectives and importance of evaluation • Evaluation techniques and devices, characteristics of a good test in history. • Preparing, reporting and evaluating the results. |
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| 5 | Practicum/ Sessionals Any one of the following i. Preparation of time line, flow chart, battle plan, map showing boundaries of any specific dynasty or king or specific period (Individual activity) ii. Organize trip to historical place/monuments. iii. Prepare skit/drama from history-events / life history of Mahatma Gandhi (Group-activity) |
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