Edu-Cultural Condition of our MIA Society in Assam

It is known to all and accepted by all that education is the instrument of social change and development. According to Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the progress of a society is determined by education. Three obstacles that stand in the way of progress are ignorance, diseases and property. Of these major obstacle is ignorance. If the ignorance is removed from the men’s mind s their poverty will diminish and the disease will be eliminated. The history of civilization shows that the progressive philosophy-the scientific point of view, the realistic and positive out look and the aesthetic sense are basic factors for individual and social progress. Here the finding of an anthropological research can be added. This research had found out that the amount of sex control is positively correlated with the development of a race. It means that the more amount of sex controlled the more is the development of a race. The progress of America, Japan, England and other advanced countries is due to their progressive philosophy. They could link their philosophy with economic growth. Now a day, it is observed that many people are following this path and their advancement is on the progress. But those who are unable to and unwilling to accept this path is bound to be down trodden.

It is difficult but important to achieve all the factors behind the progress and advancement. There are the great gifts of education-time fitting quality education. The quality education has been considered as the key factor of all-round and balanced development of an individual as well as the society, The quality education refers to that education which can produce the quality people having high degree of goodness, worth and excellence. Quality depends on how and how much knowledge and information an individual acquires, belief and attitude towards the knowledge he develops and habit of doing or work culture he imbibes. These are the three Pillars of personality which are related to truth, goodness and beauty truth in knowledge and information, goodness of feeling and attitude, and beauty in doing or behaviour.

Thus the quality in the achievement of an individual’s education is required to be reflected in his behaviour or personality, in his thought and feeling. The external and superficial flourishment of the periphery is not the purpose of education. Through education we are to open our eyes to see the things as they are not as we are and to loosen our tongue to speak what is right and just-what is real and reasonable. It is in this way, one’s behaviour is shadowed by the beauty and gradually it covers the whole sky of the society.

Culture is closely related with education. It is rightly said that the cultivation of land is agriculture and the cultivation of mind is culture. Through education mind is cultivated. The cultural development of a society largely depends on quality education and progressive outlook. Again social enlightenment and advancement depend on edu-cultural condition of the society. A society or a community living without changing and developing culture is an ugly spectacle of the modern society. The culture is the way of living. It enriches the dry skeleton of our individual and social life with flesh and blood and makes it colourful and beautiful. It improves the taste and temperament, aesthetic and ethical quality of people. Above all, culture is the identity of a community through which it introduces itself to others.

Edu-Cultural Condition of our Society

It is known to all and accepted by all that education is the instrument of social change and development. According to Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the progress of a society is determined by education. Three obstacles that stand in the way of progress are ignorance, diseases and property. Of these major obstacle is ignorance. If the ignorance is removed from the men’s mind s their poverty will diminish and the disease will be eliminated. The history of civilization shows that the progressive philosophy-the scientific point of view, the realistic and positive out look and the aesthetic sense are basic factors for individual and social progress. Here the finding of an anthropological research can be added. This research had found out that the amount of sex control is positively correlated with the development of a race. It means that the more amount of sex controlled the more is the development of a race. The progress of America, Japan, England and other advanced countries is due to their progressive philosophy. They could link their philosophy with economic growth. Now a day, it is observed that many people are following this path and their advancement is on the progress. But those who are unable to and unwilling to accept this path is bound to be down trodden.
It is difficult but important to achieve all the factors behind the                                                                                                                    progress and advancement. There are the great gifts of education-time fitting quality education.                    The quality education has been considered as the key factor of all-round and balanced development of an individual as well as the society, The quality education refers to that education which can produce the quality people having high degree of goodness, worth and excellence. Quality depends on how and how much knowledge and information an individual acquires, belief and attitude towards the knowledge he develops and habit of doing or work culture he imbibes. These are the three Pillars of personality which are related to truth, goodness and beauty truth in knowledge and information, goodness of feeling and attitude, and beauty in doing or behaviour.
Thus the quality in the achievement of an individual’s education is required to be reflected in his behaviour or personality, in his thought and feeling. The external and superficial flourishment of the periphery is not the purpose of education. Through education we are to open our eyes to see the things as they are not as we are and to loosen our tongue to speak what is right and just-what is real and reasonable. It is in this way, one’s behaviour is shadowed by the beauty and gradually it covers the whole sky of the society.
Culture is closely related with education. It is rightly said that the cultivation of land is agriculture and the cultivation of mind is culture. Through education mind is cultivated. The cultural development of a society largely depends on quality education and progressive outlook. Again social enlightenment and advancement depend on edu-cultural condition of the society. A society or a community living without changing and developing culture is an ugly spectacle of the modern society. The culture is the way of living. It enriches the dry skeleton of our individual and social life with flesh and blood and makes it colourful and beautiful. It improves the taste and temperament, aesthetic and ethical quality of people. Above all, culture is the identity of a community through which it introduces itself to others.

Present Scenerio of Academic Environment and Interior Places In India

Academic environment at present has witnessed degredation and deterioration to a certain extend. There has been considerable discussion and debate on the academic environment by academicians and educationists in perticular and concerned citizens in general. Needless to mention that it is of utmost importance for effestive teaching-learning process of any eductional system. As such academic environment has close link with educational development of the students and a good academic environment is the result of joint efford by the students, teachers, guardians and the government. It has been observed that due to many inter-related factors there has been a lack of healthy academic environment at present as a result our students have not been able to exploit their potential human qualities to the satiesfactory extend. So it is extremely necessary to identify the various reasons and relevant factors behind this degredation and find out the remedies of it. The task of finding out the chief agent or party responsible for such degredation is realy difficult and complex. No single factors can be held solely responsible for this degredation which is cumulative consequence of a multiplicity of factors that are inter-related to each other. It sometimes happens that either the teachers or the students are blamed for such degredation. But the fact is that the proper maintenance of good and sound academic environment largely depends on the overall social environment and and the policy formation and implementation of the government in power from time to time. Of course, it may be stated that a section of teachers suffer from erosion of image and discipline which is also common among a section of students. It is the students who are the main target of our education system for whom huge expenditure is incurred from public exchequer but a sizeable number of students remain far from achieving their respective goals. Many students do not show interest and curiosity in attending classes and do not keep close contact with teachers and are found to be addicted bad habits which are vary much detrimental to their physical and mental health and in the long run resulting in the development of frustration among them. The present gloomy unemployment scenerio of the slate has increased the overall depression of students as employment opportunities are shrinking both in public and private sectors. The unemployment problem itself is the result of our present defective education system as the education system has nat been able to keep up with changing need, requirement and job opportunities. Even the best creams of the present educational set up have not been able to stablish in the preent society. Some students merely attend schools or colleges due to family pressure or a custm, they lack zeal enthusiaism most esential for learning. Another important factor is the inherant poverty among a large section of guardians who can not provide their wards with necessary facilities for continuation of studies. The cost of education on the other hand is increasing day by day and government scholarship is limited. Besides there is wide gap between the facilities by the urban students and those enjoyed by rural students. While a section of students are seem to be carrying vary costly mobile handsets etc, their counterparts from rural and reverine areas even do not have the basic necessities for subsistance. Again the evil consequences of the misuse of the television, cinema etc. have a negetive impact on the students as well as the academic environment. The propagation of western culture through the electronic media has generated a meterialistic out look and consumerist philosophy among the younger generation of the society which has its impact on the life-style of the students. As a result the traditional harmonious and respectful relationship between the teachers and taught has been disrupted. The teachers are gradually losing their authority over the students for various reasons such as lack of strong personality among a section of teachers, political interference in some appointment , transfer etc. Further, the absence of moral education particularlyat the school stage has far-teaching effect on various aspects of social life. Besides ther are some other relevant factors for the degredation of academic environment such as appointment of teachers are not always on merit, no appropriate step for solution of problems of teachers, delay in filling of vacant posts, inadequate supervision and review of educational system under regular interval, non-avalability of text books in time, insufficient financial grant for co-curricular activities and other academic programes, administrative laxity etc. Thus the academic degredation is the result of various inter-related causes. However, there is utmost need to improve the present scenerio of degraded academic environment and following measures may be considered. Teaching-learning process is a continuous one and so teachers training is invariably needed with the changing situation so that they can play effective role as best guide to students by identifying the strength and weakness of students. There is the need of introduction of entrepreneurship education in present education system in order that the students become able to mould a strong mind to be self-employed if necessary and thus lead them to be free from present dreadful situation of educated unemployment. The introduction of moral education is equally important from the very beginning stage of students life which may mitigate many of the ills of educational environment and for which the role of guardians and teachers is more important. Government must ensure the maintenance of the appropriate method for the selection of teachers strictly on the basis of merit instead of some other considerations. This will make the teachers to render better services to the students in real sense. There is the need of involvement of students in co-curricular activities for fullest development of their personality. Besides, availability of books and journals in time, well-equipped buildings, effective supervision by compent authority etc. are some important ingredients of healthy academic environment. Also there is utmost need of increasing the number of classes during the academic session and other academic programmes should be arranged so that participation of students can be made more effective. However, a strong zeal for learning is necessary to be ingrained in the minds of students which can be made possible only when the effortof heads of institutions, teachers, educationists, conscious guardians with positive outlook will go a long way in improving the degraded scenerio of educational environment. Moreover, the state authority of modern welfare concept must adopt certain practical measures in appropriate direction to creat a healthy academic ambience where every student can utilize their best talent according to their capacity. In fact, it is also the responsibility of civil society to provide a free, fair and favourable social environment will foster to suit the talents of the young learners. Besides, the development of human qualities our education system must be able to provide economic security to students. This may lessen the present chaos and disorder and thus help to maintain a favourable academic environment. Howover a collective effort of all concerned with educatinal set up must play their respective role with high degree of responsibility for maintenance of a good academic environment.

Teacher Education scenerio in Assam: A brief note from Zahangir Khan

Education is a decisive and a complex activity. Teacher education is perhaps more decisive and complex because it calls forth a series of promises to be fulfilled and poignancy to be translated in action well planned in and through contemplation. What one indeed expects from teacher education at the very outset is: Is it prepared from diverse and different perspectives of training and education of pre-service and in service teachers? At the same time it is equipped with realy qualified and devoted teacher educators who are in a very sound position of discharging their duties and responsibilities in boosting teacher preparation and teacher competency..Admittedly, as are the teachers so are institutions. An institution may have a very adequate and enviable infrastructure: buildings, playground, classroom, libraries and other facilities; but if there is an absence of minimum number of efficient, qualified, hard working devoted and sincere teachers, the whole purpose of education and teaching is terribly defeated. As there are lots of individual differences as well as similarities amongst learners in an academic institution from the psychological points of view. A good teacher knows how to deal with this heterogeneous class room climate. Necessarily, he/she is expected to stick to the golden principle of individualizing the instruction and teaching in judicious concurrence with and devotion to socializing the learners as best as possible. The greatest challenge of teacher education today is how to orient and train our teachers so that they may be justified to teaching or a grant unison of individualization without sacrificing quality and excellence in teaching learning under any circumstances whatsoever.

"The revelation of perfect child" as Rabindranath Tagore reminds us in his civilisation and progress, in order to creat the right atmosphere of joy freedom and creativity is the primary and mandatory need of the hour. Thinking, feeling, involving, having and loving are the five genuine and penetrating pointers and advancement in quality teaching. A radacal paradigmshift in teacher educationkeeping in view spontaneity, happyness, introspection and adventure in quest of the unknown and untraced, unearthed and undiscovered very transparent in vibrant, conjoint andteaching learning can no longer be stifled and relegated to the background by stuffing the learner with lifeless information and substandard dradgeries of details.
At the same time, teacher education is now at the critical juncture of eliminating excessive depends on memory-banks and crude craziness with computer fallouts. Let passivity in learning be eliminated and substantially replace by the fine tunings in teacher education that cares for sense and sensibilities, aesthetics and in-depth queries. Education is not a physical thing that can be delivered through post. Fertile the robust education is always created, rooted on physical and cultural soil of the child and nourished through interaction with parents, teachers, fellow students and community. The role and dignity of teachers in this function must be strengthened and underlined. There is mutuality in genuine construction of knowledge. In this transaction the teacher also learns if the child is not forced to remain passive. Since children really perceive and observe more than grownups, their potential role as knowledge creatores needs to be appreciated.
Admittedly, teacher education in the twenty first century looks forward to revamping in seven fold direction:(i)mapping the vulnerable areas of quality in teaching (ii) Restructuring the curriculum for school education (iii) revisiting and improving text-books and teaching learning materials (iv) individualising instruction for all round efflorescence of pupil-personality. (v) sensitizing the opposite approach for strengthening and mobilising social and aesthetic value (vi) caring and igniting pupils' creativity and critical thinking and (vii) exploring and fine-tuning the heartland of little learners with opposite and challenging strategies of teaching from time to time even under trying and unfavourable circumstances.
Let the teacher education be all the time spear headed by the education of nearness cordeality and sympathy for the learners under countless constraints in particular.
Pre-service teacher educaion holds a very prominent place in the area of education in general and teacher education in particular. That all education is pre-service education gives a very wrong signal in teacher education. It averts and, to a great extent, negates the very aims and objectives of teaching as a profession because it allows stagnation for the whole period of unemployment or the absence of recruitment and involvement in the profession of teaching.
Teacher education for in service teacher at the different stages of school education necessitates a fresh and through over-hauling. For this purpose the following points may be considered:
(i) Elimination of poverty in contant mastery and appropriate exercise thereof.
(ii) Regular systematic orientation in methods of teaching.
(iii) Exchange programmes for teacher with a view to ensuring quality and excellence in vulnerable institutions.
(iv) Special programme for proficiency in teaching for aesthetic and creative efflorescence.
(v) Pckage programme for teachers dealing with crucial and priority based issues and ideas on national and society solidarity.
(vi) Involement of teachers in scissoring heavy loads of learning and teaching.
(vii) Departure and dissociation from the existing pattern of training of pre-service and inservice teachers together as it calls forth constraints in desirable maintenance of quality and balance in teaching besides inviting unavoidable complex and delicacies.
(viii)fostering the spirit of improving the quality of teaching through igniting the importance of life long learning by appropriately manipulating the skills well formulated in terms of self-study and self experiments.
(ix) Steering the teachers attention towards right ideas, right concepts, right interpretation, right comprehension and right strategies whatsoever insignificant or marginal these might appear.
(x) The padagogic delebarations ought to be in perfect tune with learners abilities, proneness and contextual appeal in addition to the teachers 'own' models of imparting instruction well scanned under training schedule of acticities in diverse socio-cultural climate.
For the very dependable and sound programme of professional enrichment of teachers, the first andand formost ideas target area is to be well trained in how to learn the motivation maps and spurts of students and decide introducing teaching strategies accordingly. The end view therefore, is to launch vigorous and sustained teacher education progrmmes for committed and proficient teachers with all-encompassing evidence of enlivening competency and assured ascent of progress in different dimensions.
The teacher education for in service teachers poses an unphill task of evolutionary, diversifying and extending living visions of education for the enlightened all care should be taken to maintain a healthy climate of co-ordantion among the diferent stokeholders of training teachers education viz mossinary and private institution open universities and university department of education including advanced study centres in education and colleges under universities.