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MA Education 1st Year Assignments 2021

The document outlines assignments for various courses in the Master of Arts (Education) 1st Year program for January 2021 and July 2021 sessions. It provides instructions for submitting assignment responses and retaining copies. It then lists 3 assignments each for 6 courses - MES-011, MES-012, MES-013, MES-014, MES-015, and MES-016. The assignments require discussing topics like the relationship between education and culture, aims of education, curriculum development, learning theories, societal context of education, and educational research. Students need to complete the assignments in 500 words for each question.

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MA Education 1st Year Assignments 2021

The document outlines assignments for various courses in the Master of Arts (Education) 1st Year program for January 2021 and July 2021 sessions. It provides instructions for submitting assignment responses and retaining copies. It then lists 3 assignments each for 6 courses - MES-011, MES-012, MES-013, MES-014, MES-015, and MES-016. The assignments require discussing topics like the relationship between education and culture, aims of education, curriculum development, learning theories, societal context of education, and educational research. Students need to complete the assignments in 500 words for each question.

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ASSIGNMENTS

M. A. (Education) 1st Year


(January – 2021)
&
(July – 2021)

School of Education
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068

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ASSIGNMENTS

MASTER OF ARTS (EDUCATION) 1st YEAR

January 2021
&
July 2021

Please Note:

a) The Assignment Responses (ARs) may be submitted by hand or sent by registered post to
the Programme – in – Charge of your Programme Study Centre.
b) You should retain a copy of all the assignments in your own interest.

MES – 011: UNDERSTANDING EDUCATION

Assignment: 01

a) What is meant by culture? Explain how education acts as an instrument of culture.


(500 words)

b) Discuss how political system and education system influence each other in a democratic
society.
(500 words)

c) Describe, briefly, individual and social aims of education. Is there anti-thesis between
these aims of education? Justify your answer. (500 words)

MES – 012: EDUCATION: NATURE AND PURPOSES

Assignment: 01

a) Explain education as a process of socialization and as a process of reconstruction of


experiences. (500 words)

b) Discuss aims of education according to the Upanishads. (500 words)

c) Suppose you are requested to develop a new curriculum in the subject area of your choice
at the school or college level. Discuss the steps that you would follow while developing
the new curriculum. (500 words)

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MES – 013: LEARNING, LEARNER AND DEVELOPMENT

Assignment – 1

a) Discuss Vygotsky’s socio-cultural perspective in learning and its educational


implications. (500 words)
b) Describe the nature and importance of learning languages and social sciences in school
curriculum. (500 words)
c) Explain the concept of authentic activities. Take up any authentic task and explain how
different skills can be developed collaboratively. (500 words)

MES – 014: SOCIETAL CONTEXT OF EDUCATION

Assignment: 01

a) Explain various agencies of socialization and interface among them. (500 Words)
b) Explain, briefly, the role of teacher in planning, transaction and evaluation of curriculum.
(500 Words)
c) Discuss the concepts of equity and equality in education. Illustrate, with examples,
strategies that can work effectively for bringing in equity at different levels of education.
(500 words)

MES-015: OPERATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATION

Assignment: 01

a) Explain the meaning and types of peer group. Discuss the role of peer group in
education of children. (500 words)
b) Describe how physical resources of an educational institution can be managed to
optimize institutional performance. (500 words)

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c) Identify a topic of your choice from the secondary school curriculum and prepare a
lesson plan on it. (500 words)

MES- 016: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Assignment: 01

a) Explain the meaning and characteristics of experimental research. Describe how a


researcher can control intervening variables in an experimental research. (500 words)

b) Describe, briefly, the components of a research report. (500 words)

c) Select a research problem, pertaining to educational practices at school or college level,


appropriate for descriptive survey research. Prepare a detailed research proposal on the
same problem.
(500 words)

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