Syllabus

Course Code: 805    Course Name: Understanding, Disciplines and subjects

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 1. EMERGENCE OF DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE
• Meaning, nature and types of discipline.
• Role of disciplinary knowledge in the school curriculum.
• Emergence of school subjects and disciplines from philosophical, social and political contexts;
• emergence of teaching methods
2 2. DISCIPLINARY KNOWLEDGE: RELATED ISSUES
• Difference and relationship between curriculum & syllabus;
•A criteria for selection of textbooks, magazine & journals as source of knowledge.
• Role of different agencies and their functions in shaping the syllabus and text books at national & state level.
3 Practimum/ Sessional
Any one of the following:
• Critical analysis of a curriculum/ syllabus of particular school subjects.
• Evaluate a text book of secondary classes with reference to its adequacy and in achieving expected learning outcome.
• Review of text book in the light of connecting knowledge to life outside the school.
• Readings and group discussions on NCF-2005, NCFTE-2010, RTE-2009
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