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B.Ed first semester

EPC 1

EPC 4

EPC 6

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COURSE OBJECTIVES 
Upon completion of this course, the student teacher will: 
1. Develops ability to comprehend the language of texts, teacher and learner and various 
other instructional contexts 
2. Improve his/her proficiency in ‗reading‘, ‗writing‘, ‗thinking‘, and ‗communicating‘ in 
the language of instruction 
3. Develop an interest in reading  
4. Improve his/her ability to understand instruction 
This is a major practical course suggested by NCTE curriculum framework. The course 
enable the learner to analyse the language of teacher, learner and text books of different subjects 
and contexts.   This course also serve as a foundation to enable B.Ed. students to read and respond 
to a variety of texts in different ways and also learn to think together, depending on the text and 
the purposes of reading. Responses may be personal or creative or critical or all of these together. 
Students will also develop metacognitive awareness to become conscious of their own thinking 
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processes as they grapple with diverse texts. In other words, this course will enable student
teachers to enhance their capacities as readers and writers by becoming participants in the process 
of reading. The aim is to engage with the readings interactively- individually and in small groups. 
This involves framing questions to think about, while preparing to read something, reading a text, 
and reflexively placing what one has read in the context of both the texts and one‘s own 
experiences.  
This course offers opportunities to confront with use of language in different curricular 
contexts including textbooks, classrooms and other formal and informal learning contexts. 
The learner also gets opportunity to read a wide variety of texts, including empirical, 
conceptual, and historical work, policy documents, studies about schools, teaching, learning, and 
about different people‘s experiences of all of these. The course will also include narrative texts, 
expository texts from diverse sources, including autobiographical narratives, field notes, 
ethnographies, etc. to address different types of reading skills and strategies.   
For expository texts, they will learn to make predictions, check their predictions, answer 
questions and then summarize or retell what they‘ve read .Students will analyze various text 
structures to see how these contribute to the comprehension of a text. These readings will also 
provide the context for writing. Combining reading and writing leads to the development of 
critical skills. Student-teachers will get opportunities to write with a sense of purpose and 
audience, through tasks such as, responding to a text with one‘s own opinions or writing within 
the context of others‘ ideas. 

Lesson plan submission 

Diversity is a more complex idea in Indian society.

This course aims to develop an understanding of education as an agenda for the nation state and its policy visions and efforts in evolving a national system of education. Students are expected to engage with the discourses on contemporary Indian society and education, to understand the national and local contexts in which a variety of schools function, and appreciate that a democratic society must be built on a universal, just and equitable system of education. This requires building a perspective on the processes of alienation and socio-economic deprivation of a large number of students, an analysis of the complex relationship between education and equality, and a critical appraisal of policies and recommendations of major commissions and committees.

The course will enable student-teachers to engage with studies on Indian society and education, acquire conceptual tools of critical analysis and the experience of engaging with diverse communities, children and schools. The course will include selections from theoretical readings, case studies, analyses of educational statistics and personal field engagement through focus group discussion, surveys, seminars etc. The course consists of 6 units, covering policy-related issues and debates, and also their socio-economic context.

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