Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of Education

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Education is a dynamic process. It changes with the changing of Socio- Politico-economic conditions with the explosion of knowledge and with tremendous social change that occurred over the years. Change is a key characteristics of the Nature. As a Philosopher the Teacher tries to mould and develop the child according to his philosophy to attain a desirable type of individual. ‘Adams’ has _ rightly remarked— "Education is the dynamic side of Philosophy." One may call philosophy as the high thinking and meditation which concerns itself to the God, the Soul and the Nature. This concentration and high thinking is for revealing the hidden and immortal realities of existence.

This book is an endeavour to provide the readers with a comprehensive but comprehensible study of various aspects of Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of Education. It is presented in nine different chapters with clarity, concepts, need and significance of Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of Education.

Dr. R.P. Pathak is a Head and Dean, Faculty of Education in L.B.S. Vidyapeeth (Deemed University), New Delhi, teaching B.Ed. and M.Ed. classes. He received his education at Jaunpur, Gorakhpur, B.H.U., Kendriya Hindi. Sansthan, IGNOU and Meerut University. He has served various institutions, 1.e. NCERT, SCERT and IGNOU. He has guided a number of Ph.D. and master level dissertations and has contributed several research papers, articles and reports to various reputed journals.

Education is a dynamic process. It changes with the changing of Socio-Politico-economic conditions with the explosion of knowledge and with tremendous social change that occurred over the years. Change is a key characteristics of the Nature. As a Philosopher the Teacher tries to mould and develop the child according to his philosophy to attain a desirable type of individual. ‘Adams’ has rightly remarked — "Education is the dynamic side of Philosophy." One may call philosophy as the high thinking and meditation which concerns itself to the God, the Soul and the Nature. This concentration and high thinking is for revealing the hidden and immortal realities of existence.

This book is an endeavour to provide the readers with a comprehensive but comprehensible study of various aspects of Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of Education. It is presented in nine different chapters with clarity, concepts, need and significance of Philosophical and Sociological Foundations of Education.

I acknowledge the co-operation extended to me by several friends and colleagues in the preparation of this book. My special thank, are due to Prof. Vachaspati Upadhyay Vice-Chancellor of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rastriya Sanskrit Vidya Peeth, New Delhi, Prof. C.L. Arora, Prof. K.S. Mishra, Prof. S.S. Srivastava, Prof. K.P. Panday, Prof. S.V. Choudhary, Prof. L.C. Singh, Prof. V.S. Mishra, directly and indirectly many people have contributed to the preparation of this book. I am especially:indebted to my teachers for their kind help and guidance. I am thankful to my learned colleagues Dr. Rajni Joshi Choudhary and Dr. Amita Panday Bhardwaj for their co-operation. I express my grateful appreciation to my wife Smt. Manorma without whose encouragement, devotion and sacrifice the publication of this book would not have been possible. I am thankful to those numerous authors of various books and Journals, whose great and masterly work I have consulted during the preparation of various chapters of this book. I am also grateful to my publishers Shri Madan Sachdeva and Shri Vivek Chaturvedi for publication of this book in time.

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