BESC-131: Education: Concept, Nature and Perspectives

The course BESC-131 Education: Concept, Nature and Perspectives is one of the Discipline Specific Core courses of Education subject under the BAG-CBCS Programme. This is a six credit course studied at the first semester of BAG-CBCS programme. The course is designed in 4 blocks with 16 modules, comprising four modules in each block. The course includes e-content, e-tutorials, scope for a discussion forum, module wise quiz questions and final assessment through National Testing Agency. The course provides a basic understanding about the concept, nature and scope of education by elaborating and exemplifying different context and perspectives of education and its operations. The major perspectives of education such as philosophical, sociological and socio-psychological perspectives have been discussed in this course. The course will enable the learners to understand and engage with different educational discourses both in theoretical and operational aspects. Further, the knowledge base of this course will help the learners to understand other courses of Education included in other semesters of BAG-CBCS programme.The course ‘BESC-131 Education: Concept, Nature and Perspectives’ is for the learners who are pursuing BAG-CBCS Programme in IGNOU and have opted ‘Education’ as one of the subjects of their study. Learners pursuing B.A. (Education) programme both in General and Honours in other Conventional and Open Universities can also pursue this course.

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