Thursday, September 9, 2010

18. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

January 26, 2010 by admin  
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A) EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: The educational institutions play significant role in the development of a country the moulds the attitude and behaviour of the individual in a certain name in a particular situation. B) TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: Formal Education. Informal Education. General Education. Technical Education. Conventional Education. Person-Centred Education. Progressive Education. Conservative Education. Prejudiced Education. Liberal [...]

15. ETHNOCENTRISM

January 26, 2010 by admin  
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A) DEFINITION: It can be defined as “A belief that ones own group, race, society and culture are superior to other groups, race, society and culture”. Man has a tendency to believe that his own ways are batter then those of the other and judges other cultures and societies by his own standard. ADVANTAGES & [...]

14. CULTURE

January 26, 2010 by admin  
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A) CULTURE: A culture is a sum of total learned behaviour, traits, values, belief, language, laws and technology, characteristics of the member of a particular society.Culture is the cultivated behaviour i.e. the totality of mans learned experience, socially transmitted to one generation to another.Culture is a behaviour acquired through social learning. B) ELEMENTS OF CULTURE: [...]

12. VALUES

January 23, 2010 by admin  
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A) VALUES: Values are standards, ideas or things which are given importance by the people living in a society.The thing toward which are attitude is directed is called value.Values depend upon the social structure and the cultural pattern of the society.Values are the conceptions of the goodness which influence our education from available means and [...]