Educational Research

Educational Research, for Better or Verse  

I thought that I would never see

Educational research reduced to Poe-tree.

Through metaphor, artistic device

Come, tackle research issues slice by slice!

Probing deeply, metaphorically speaking

We’ll give our powerful poetic tools a tweaking.

As we seek to understand effects and causes

Through fundamentally sound words and clauses.

Leaving no unexplained phenomenon unturned

We’ll apply all the methodological tricks we’ve learned.

Till stanza by stanza, measure by measure

We’ve unearthed every worldly research treasure.

Other research approaches? To hell with ’em!

For after all, we’ve got rhyme and rhythm.

And while performing our craft on the shoulders of giants

We can even spread the word to medical science.

Imagine Secretary Whitehurst’s elation

At our bold new educational research innovation!

So thanks be to you, our AERA,

For bringing us “Educational Research as ABBA.”

                                                              -Joel R. Levin

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                    Academe:Journal of education and psychology is a peer reviewed journal. For anonymity in the reviewing process, paper title, name(s) of the author(s) and address for correspondence should be placed on a separate sheet.The first page of the manuscript should also include the title. Each manuscript must accompany the undertaking of the author(s) that the said manuscript has neither been sent to any other journal or to any other publisher. Three copies of the manuscript and a CD are to be sent to the Editor-in-chief at the following address: Dr. T.K.Sahu, Editor-in-chief ACADEME, Shivam College of Education,Khokhar kalan,

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Book:

 Mukherjee, J. K. (2005) Principles and Goals of Integral Education. Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry

Book with More than Two Authors:

 Schwille, J., Dembele, M. & Schubert, J. (2007) Global Perspectives on Teacher Learning: Improving Policy and Practice. IIEP, Paris.

A Commission Report:

Delors, J. (1996) (Chairman) Report of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty First Century. UNESCO, Paris.

Article:

Lomax, P. (1993) Management of training for education: An action research. Journal of All India Association for EducationalResearch 5, 2, 1-7, June.

Conference Paper:

Petegem, P. V. (2009) Internal and external evaluation of schools: two sides of the coin called ‘quality assurance of education. Key note address delivered at the Annual Conference of the All India Association for Educational Research, Lucknow, December 28-30.

Governmental Publication

India. Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. 1998. Adults as learners. New Dehli, Government Printing Service. 222 p.

For online documents:

Standler, R. (2000) Plagiarism in colleges in the USA. Available online at: www.rbs2.com/plag.htm (accessed 6 August 2004).

Hall, Sherrie. 2002. "Inkster Schools Face State Takeover." Detroit News, April 10, http://www.detnews.com/2002/schools/0204/10.

Dissertation

Raghavan, J. (1984) A Critical Study of Sri Aurobindo’s Conception to the Building of Modern Indian Philosophy of Education. Ph. D. Dissertation, Nagpur University, Nagpur.

Newspaper Article

Mohanty, S. B. (1982, February 21). Teacher training: a farce or a necessity? The Hindu, p.14

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(a)    Contributors may send their articles, research papers, abstract of research and gleanings and comments for publication. Two copies of each article must be sent.

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(f)      Each article must be preceded by an abstract in English and succeeded by a list of references cited. The references should follow standard pattern as prescribed.

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            “ACADEME”.

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Disclaimer:-The views expressed in the articles inside are the individual opinions of the authors and they in no way represent or reflect the opinion of ACADEME nor does ACADEME subscribe to these views in any way.

Editor-in-chief

Dr. Tapan Kumar Sahu

Editorial

Editorial:-

                       India is a country with several renowned institutions that train world-class students. The unfortunate part of this training has been the fact that many of these graduates preferred to settle down and work overseas. As far as their opinion is concerned brain drain is better than brain in the drain. This was basically due to the fact that the knowledge gained by them was appreciated and used better overseas, with more avenues for intellectual stimulation and growth. Unfortunately, these avenues were lacking in India, as the industries or academic/research organizations did not need them, except possibly in the nuclear, space and defense fields.

                 Now the latest trend in the field of higher education in India is publication of research based papers/articles in the journals of national or international repute and hence ‘publish or perish’ was the motto. Though this trend continues today, but other terms also thrown in i.e. the ‘impact factor’, the ‘citation index’, and now the ‘H index’. The ‘H index’ is basically the number of papers cited that many number of times. About 84% of the Nobel laureates in physics have an ‘H index’ of more than 30, clearly indicating that only consistent cutting-edge research can take you far. A multiple factor criterion, which included quality of education, quality of faculty, research output and size of institution, was used to rank universities around the world and no doubt few of the Indian educational institutions has made their place confirmed among the world class institutions. But a sad state of affairs is in terms of the quality of publications. The ‘publish or perish’ motto is also creating a dangerous trend, where the faculty tell the students what to do, get the results, write papers and get them published. The faculty gets their promotions and become ‘successful’. The research scholar, with say five papers, gets a Ph D degree, but is actually a ‘research coolie’ who does not know how to design an experiment, analyse the results, write a paper or proposal, or present his work. In the real world, this research scholar is a misfit and at best becomes a ‘research worker’. Such a trend exists in many universities departments/laboratories where the junior/research scholar carries out the instructions of the professors/senior fellows. In the process a vacuum is created and when the senior retires there is no one to lead the laboratories or organizations.

                    Hence we have made an endeavor to provide avenues for the research scholars and prospective academics to air their opinions, views, and ideas by making a print forum available to them and publish different articles in the field of education and equip themselves with competencies & skills needed in the changing times.

          

Dr. Tapan Kumar Sahu

     Editor-in Chief

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Editorial Advisory Board

Patron:  Sr.Sanmeek Singh Henry,President,Shivam College of  Education

                  Rakesh Kumar,Educational Advisor,Shivam College of Education

Editorial Advisory Board

Professor Minakshi Sharma

                                                H.O.D.Departent of Education,

                                                Punjabi University,Patiala(Punjab)

Professor P.K.Sahu

H.O.D.Departent of Education,Allahabad University.(U.P.)

Prof. Sushama Sharma
Former Dean, Faculty of Education Kurukshetra University,Kurukshetra (Haryana)

Professor K.K.Sharma,

Former Pro Vice-Chancellor.,NEHU,Shillong.(Haryana)

Professor Keshav Sharma 

Former professor of Education,H.P.University,Shimla.(H.P.)

Professor S.B.Mohanty

General Secretary and Editor,Journal of All India Association for Educational Research.(Pondichery)

Dr.A.D.Mishra

Dy.Director,National Gandhi Museum,(New Delhi)

Prof.Dhaneswar Harichandan

Director,Institute of Distance Education,University of Mumbai,(Maharastra)

Dr.Amisha Singh

University College of Education,Kurukshetra University,Kurukshetra.(Haryana)

Dr. Bidyadhar Sa

Asstt.Professor, Educational Measurement & Evaluation, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, (West Indies)

Prof.Kit Field

                                                Dean of the School of Education,

                                                University of Wolverhampton,

                                                Walsall Campus Gorway Rd,Walsall(U.K.)

                                                Prof.Daniela Piffer

                                                Director,

                                                Development Mutual Corporation(South Africa)

                                                Prof.A.S.Thakur

                                                Formerly Professor and Dean of Education

                                                University of Maiduguri (Nigeria)

     Dr.Amarendra Prasad Behera

     Associate Professor & Head,Training Division,

     Central Institute of Educational Technology,

     NCERT,(New Delhi)

     Prof. Subhash Brahmbhatt
     Secretary General, Association of Indian College Principals [AICP]
     Shri HK Arts College,Ahmedabad(Gujarat)
     Dr.Sarita Anand

     Assistant Professor,Dept. of Education,

     Visva Bharati Univesity,Santiniketan,(West Bengal)

                                                Prof.S.B.Bhattacharya,

                                                Faculty of Education,Banaras Hindu University,

                                                Varanasi,(U.P)

                                                Prof.Anand Pradhan

                                                H.O.D.Departent of Education,

                                                Lovely Professional University,(Pb)

Editor-in Chief : Dr. Tapan Kumar Sahu

Associate Editors: Dr.V.K.Rai

                              Mrs.Shikha Rani Pradhan

Printed,Published and owned byDr.Tapan Kumar Sahu,Principal, Shivam college of Education,Lehra-Sunam road,Khokhar kalan,Sangrur(Pb.) and Printed by Twenty First Century Publications,Patiala(Punjab)

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ACADEME

                                   Journal of Education & Psychology

Volume 1                  Number 1               September, 2011

Editor-in-Chief: Dr.Tapan Kumar Sahu

Shivam college of Education,

Lehra-Sunam road,Khokhar kalan(Sangrur)

Approved by: NRC,NCTE Jaipur .Affiliated to:Punjabi University,Patiala.

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Introduction to "Academe "

ACADEME

                                             Journal of Education & Psychology

                  The ACADEME- Journal of Education & Psychology is a national and interdisciplinary forum for research on education. It publish original, peer-reviewed academic articles that deal with issues of national and international relevance in educational theory, methodology, and practice.

                 The scope of the journal is deliberately broad, both in terms of topics covered and disciplinary perspective. The journal welcomes papers from a wide range of disciplines that provide relevant research for current issues in education and learning: educational philosophy, psychology, sociology, technology and more. It publishes empirical and theoretical papers (e.g. a critical review of research). The journal has a national board of editors. The national perspective is also reflected by the journal's bilingual approach: ACADEME welcomes papers both in English and Hindi.

               The decisive criterion for accepting a manuscript for publication is scientific quality. All research articles published in this journal have undergone a rigorous peer review. Based on initial screening by the editors, each paper is anonymized and reviewed by at least two anonymous referees.

~VISION~

~    To develop dynamic, confident, positive and resourceful Academics.

~MISSION~ ~    To Make the Academics aware of the need to change, grow and develop as resourceful educator. ~ To make available avenues for the Research scholars and prospective academics to publish different articles in the field of education easily without going through any hectic formality and fulfill the criteria of Ph.D as well as UGC for Career advancement scheme and equip themselves with competencies and skills needed in the changing times. ~      To encourage them to air their opinions, views, ideas by making a print forum available to them.