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Part – I General Knowledge and Current Affairs (Marks: 10)

 Part – II

Perspectives in Education (Marks: 10)

1. History of Education :
   • The Education in Ancient India – Pre-Vedic and Post-Vedic period, Medieval
   • Education in Pre Independent era – Woods Despatch (1854), Hunter Commission (1882), Hartog Committee (1929), Sargent Committee (1944).
   • Education in Post Independent era – Mudaliar Commission (1952-53), Kothari Commission (1964-66), Ishwarbhai Patel committee (1977), NPE-1986, POA-1992

2.Teacher Empowerment:

• Need, interventions for empowerment, Professional code of conduct for teachers, Teacher motivation, Professional development of Teachers and Teacher organizations, National / State Level Organizations for Teacher Education, Maintenance of Records and Registers in

3.Educational Concerns in Contemporary India:

• Democracy and Education, Equality, Equity, Quality in Education, Equality of Educational
• Economics of Education, Education as Human Capital, Education and Human Resource Development, Literacy – Saakshar Bharat
• Population Education, Gender – Equality, Equity and Empowerment of Women, Urbanization and migration, Life
• Adolescence Education
• Value Education – Morel Value and Professional Eathics in
• Health and Physical Education
• Inclusive Education – Classroom Management in Inclusive Education
• Role of Education in view of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization
• Programmes and Projects – APPEP, DPEP, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL), Rashtriya Madhyamika Siksha Abhiyan(RMSA), Rashtriya Aveshekar Abhiyan (RAA), KGBVs, Model
• Incentives and special provisions – Mid Day Meals, Free Books, Scholarship, Awards, Welfare Hostels,
• Current Trends in Education – Badi pelusthondi, Badi ki Vasta, Mavuru – Mana Badi, Vidyanjali, Swacha Patasala, Inspire,

4.Acts / Rights:

• Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act – 2009
• Right to Information Act – 2005
• Child Rights
• Human

5. National Curriculum – Framework, 2005: Perspective, Guiding Principles, Learning and Knowledge, Teaching Learning Process, Assessment, Systemic

Part – III Educational Psychology (Marks: 10)

1. Development Of Child
   • Development, Growth & Maturation — Concept & Nature
   • Principles of development and their education implication
   • Factors influencing Development — Biological, Psychological, Sociological,
   • Dimensions of Development and their interrelationships — Physical & Motor, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Moral, Language relating to Infancy, early Childhood, late Child hood,
   • Understanding Development — Piaget, Kohlberg, Chomsky, Carl Rogers, Erikson
   • Individual differences — Infra & Inter Individual differences in the areas of Attitudes, Aptitude, Interest, Habits, Intelligence and their
   • Development of Personality — Concept, Factors effecting development of personality, self
   • Adjustment, Behavioural problems, Mental Health, Defense
   • Methods and Approaches of Child Development — Introspection, Observation, Interview, Case study, Experimental, Cross sectional and Longitudinal
   • Developmental tasks and Hazards

2.   Understanding Learning

• Concept, Nature of Learning — input — process — outcome
• Factors of Learning — Personal and Environmental
• Approaches to Learning and their applicability—Behaviorism (Skinner, Pavlov, Thorndike) Constructivism (Piaget, Vygotsky), Gestalt(Kohler, Koffka) and Observational (Bandura)
• Dimensions of Learning — Cognitive, Affective and
• Motivation and Sustenance —its role in
• Memory & Forgetting
• Transfer of Learning

3.   Pedagogical Concerns

• Teaching and its relationship with learning and
• Learners in Contexts: Situating learner in the socio-political and cultural context
• Children from diverse contexts—Children With Special Needs (CWSN), Inclusive
• Understanding of pedagogic methods — Enquiry based learning, Project based learning, Survey, Observation and Activity based learning, Cooperative and collaborative
• Individual and Group learning: Issues and concerns with respect to organizing learning in class room like Study habits, Self learning and Learning to learn
• Organizing learning in heterogeneous class room groups — Socio-economic background, Abilities and
• Paradigms of organizing Learning-Teacher centric, Subject centric and Learner centric.
• Theory of instruction – Bruner
• Teaching as Planned activity — Elements of Planning
• Phases of Teaching — Pre active, Interactive and Post active
• General and Subject related skills, competencies required in teaching and attributes of good
• Learning resources — Self, Home, School, Community,
• Class room Management: Role of student, teacher, Leadership style of teacher, Creation of non threatening learning environment, Managing behaviour problems, Guidance & Counselling, Punishment and its legal implications, Rights of a child, Time
• Distinction between Assessment for Learning & Assessment of Learning, School based Assessment, Continuous & Comprehensive Evaluation : Perspective &
• Understanding teaching & learning in the context of NCF, 2005 & Right to Education Act,

Part – IV

Content (Marks: 50) I.

1. Concepts, Theories and Institutions:
   1. Introduction: Definition, Scope and importance of political Science
   2. State: Nation formation and its functions
   3. Law: Sources of Law
   4. Liberty and Equality: Their relationship
   5. Kinds of rights
2. Ideologies; Individualism, Anarchism, Fascism and Socialism
3. Forms of Government
   1. Democracy: Direct and Indirect
   2. Unitary and Federal
   3. Parliamentary and Presidential Organs of Government
   4. Legislature
   5. Executive
   6. Judiciary

II.  Indian Government and policies

1. Evolution of Indian Constitution
2. Indian Federation: Centre State relations
3. Fundamental rights, duties, Constitutional
4. President: Election, Powers functions, Prime Minister and Council of Minister.
5. Parliament Composition Powers, Judicial review
6. Judiciary: Supreme Court, Powers, Judicial
7. Election commission: Electoral reforms, Voting
8. Local Government: 73rd and 74th

III. Political Thought

1. Indian Political Thought
   1. Manu
   2. Kautilya
   3. Gandhi
   4. Ambedkar

IV.  Control over Administration

1. Legislative control
2. Executive control
3. Judicial Control
4. Lok Pal
5. Lokayukta

V.  Government and Politics in Andhra Pradesh

1. Historical Background of the A.P.: Socio – Political Struggle in Hyderabad State
2. States Reorganization and Formation of Andhra Pradesh Party System: National and Regional Parties pressure

Teaching Methodology (Marks: 20)

1. Social Studies – Meaning, Nature and Scope: Defining Social Studies, Main features of Social Studies, Social Studies and Social Sciences differentiated, Scope of Social Studies – Types of Subject material and learning experiences included in the study of Social Studies, Need and importance of Social
2. Values, Aims and Objectives of Teaching Social Studies: Values of teaching Social Studies, Aims of teaching Social Studies at Secondary Level, Instructional Objectives of teaching Social Studies, Relationship of instructional objectives with general aims and objectives of Social Studies, Taxonomy of Educational and instructional objectives, Writing objectives in behavioural
3. Social Studies Curriculum: Social Studies as a Core subject, Principles of Curriculum Construction in Social Studies, Organization of subject matter – different approaches correlated, integrated, topical, concentric, unit and chronological.
4. Instructional Strategies in Social Studies: Techniques, devices and maxims, Different methods of teaching Social Studies – Story telling, lecture, source, discussion, project, problem, inductive, deductive, observation, assignment – socialized recitation, Team teaching, Supervised study.
5. Planning for Instruction: Developing teaching skills through Micro-teaching, Year Planning, Unit Planning, Lesson Planning
6. Instructional Material and Resources: Text books, work books, supplementary material syllabus, curriculum guides, hand books, Audio visual, Social Studies laboratory, library, clubs and museum, Utilizing community
7. Social Studies Teacher: Qualities of a good Social Studies teacher, Roles and responsibilities.
8. Evaluation in Social Studies: Concept and purpose, Types of Evaluation, Evaluation as a continuous and comprehensive process, Different techniques of Evaluation, Preparation for Scholastic Achievement test