TY - BOOK AU - Chandra, S. S. TI - Principles of Education SN - 9788171566334 U1 - 370.1 23 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Atlantic publishers and Distributors N1 - Part-1: 1. Education: Meaning, types and functions; 2.Formal, informal and non-formal education; 3. Aims and objects of education; 4. Agencies of education; 5. Evaluation of the current educational pattern; 6. Curriculum; 7. Teaching devices; 8. Innovation in teaching; 9. Sociology of education; 10. Socialization and family; 11. Peer group and education; 12. School and education; 13. The college in the social structure; 14. Social functions of education; 15. Education, state and community; 16. Social stratification and education in India; 17. Education and modernization in India; 18. Social change and education; 19. Social control and education; 20. Deschooling society; 21. Teacher's role in society; 22. Education and economic order; 23. Values and education; 24. Education for international understanding; 25. Education in democracy; 26. Education for socialistic pattern of society; 27. The disturbed campus; 28. National emotional integration; Part-2 1. philosophy: Nature, problems, scope and value; 2. Philosophy and education; 3. Philosophy of education; 4. Idealism; 5. Realism; 6. Naturalism: Jean jacques Rousseau; 7. Pragmatism: John Dewey and Bertrand Russell; 8. Existentialism; 9. Logical positivism; 10. Socialism, fascism, marxism and communism; 11. Humanism; 12.Secularism; 13. Ancient Indian philosophy of education; 14. Swami Dayananda; 15. Annie Besant; 16. M. K. Gandhi; 17. Rabindranath Tagore; 18. Swami Vivekananda; 19. Sri Aurobindo; 20. Concluding remarks; N2 - This book is structured into three parts, it analytically deals with the principles of education, philosophy of education-both western and Indian, and sociology of education. Its approach to controversial topics is synthesising while the language employed throughout for elucidation is simple and jargon free.Authentic books by eminent western and Indian authors have been referred to for the detailed explanation of the subject matter ER -