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Unit 1: Teaching Aptitude
– Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of teaching (Memory, Understanding and Reflective), Characteristics and basic requirements.
– Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual differences.
– Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, Learner, Support material, Instructional facilities, Learning environment and Institution.
– Methods of teaching in Institutions of higher learning: Teacher centred vs. Learner centred methods; Off-line vs. On-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs etc.).
– Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern and ICT based.
– Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of evaluation, Evaluation in Choice Based Credit System in Higher education, Computer based testing, Innovations in evaluation systems.
Unit 2: Research Aptitude
– Research: Meaning, Types, and Characteristics, Positivism and Post- positivistic approach to research.
– Methods of Research: Experimental, Descriptive, Historical, Qualitative and Quantitative methods.
– Steps of Research.
– Thesis and Article writing: Format and styles of referencing.
– Application of ICT in research.
– Research ethics.
Unit 3: Comprehension
– A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.
Unit 4: Communication
– Communication: Meaning, types and characteristics of communication.
– Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal, Inter-Cultural and group communications, Classroom communication.
– Barriers to effective communication.
– Mass-Media and Society.
Unit 5: Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
– Types of reasoning.
– Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships.
– Mathematical Aptitude (Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage, Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages etc.).
Unit 6: Logical Reasoning
– Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, the structure of categorical propositions, Mood and Figure, Formal and Informal fallacies, Uses of language, Connotations and denotations of terms, Classical square of opposition.
– Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning.
– Analogies.
– Venn diagram: Simple and multiple uses for establishing the validity of arguments.
– Indian Logic: Means of knowledge.
– Pramanas: Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Shabda (Verbal testimony), Arthapatti (Implication) and Anupalabddhi (Non-apprehension).
– Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference).
Unit 7: Data Interpretation
– Sources, acquisition and classification of Data.
– Quantitative and Qualitative Data.
– Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart, Table-chart and Line-chart) and mapping of Data.
– Data Interpretation.
– Data and Governance.
Unit 8: Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
– ICT: General abbreviations and terminology.
– Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing.
– Digital initiatives in higher education.
– ICT and Governance.
Unit 9: People, Development and Environment
– Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals.
– Human and environment interaction: Anthropogenic activities and their impacts on environment.
– Environmental issues: Local, Regional and Global; Air pollution, Water pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), Climate change and its Socio-Economic and Political dimensions.
– Impacts of pollutants on human health.
– Natural and energy resources: Solar, Wind, Soil, Hydro, Geothermal, Biomass, Nuclear and Forests.
– Natural hazards and disasters: Mitigation strategies.
– Environmental Protection Act (1986), National Action Plan on Climate Change, International agreements/efforts -Montreal Protocol, Rio Summit, Convention on Biodiversity, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Agreement, International Solar Alliance.
Unit 10: Higher Education System
– Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India.
– Evolution of higher learning and research in Post Independence India.
– Oriental, Conventional and Non-conventional learning programmes in India.
– Professional, Technical and Skill Based education.
– Value education and environmental education.
– Policies, Governance, and Administration.
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Abdul Bari (NET JRF -Urdu ), PhD Scholar – Delhi University
Dr. Tariq Azizy (NET JRF – Commerce), Asstt. Professor (DU)
Homa Ansari (UGC NET – HRM), PhD Scholar, JMI
Om Prakash (UGC NET – Commerce), PhD Scholar, JMI
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