Author : Venita Kaul
Publisher : Northern Book Centre
ISBN 13 : 9788185119625
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)
Book Synopsis Strengths of the Disadvantaged by : Venita Kaul
Download or read book Strengths of the Disadvantaged written by Venita Kaul and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author’s doctoral dissertation, the book makes an emphatic plea for a strength-based educational strategy for disadvantaged primary grade children. In this context it focusses on some cognitive and socio-emotional strengths of these children and suggests ways in which these can be capitalized upon in the teaching-learning situation to make the learning process more effective for them. A highlight of the book is a stimulating foreword by the internationally acknowledged, eminent Indian psychologist, Prof. Durganand Sinha. Other highlights include an exhaustive review of researches both from India and abroad on six major variables—field dependence, creativity, visual modality preference, cooperation, dependency and delay of gratification which provides excellent resource material for researchers and students of Child Development and Educational Psychology. Also of interest are a set of informative case studies of two contrasting groups of high and low achieving children from the resettlement colonies of Delhi which offer revealing insights regarding priorities in child rearing and their relationship with school achievement.