Objectives

The course will enable the student teachers to:

·         Develop basic understanding and familiarity with key concepts-gender, gender bias, gender stereotype, empowerment, gender parity, equity and equality,patriarchy and feminism and transgender.

·         Understand some important landmarks in connection with growth of women’seducation in historical and contemporary periods

·         Know about policies, plans and schemes of the government for addressing allforms of disparities and inequalities existing in the society

·         Learn about gender issues in school, curriculum, textual materials across disciplines, pedagogical processes and its intersection with class, caste, religionand region; and

·         Understand the need to address gender based violence in all social spaces andevolve strategies for addressing it.


Objectives

The course will enable the student teachers to:

·         Understand the meaning and significance of Inclusive education

·         Gain knowledge on Policy and legislative frameworks promoting inclusion

·         Learn to create inclusive classrooms using inclusive pedagogy- (teachingstrategies, CCE)

·         Understand the linkages and collaborations for resource mobilization.


Objectives

The course will enable the student teachers to:

·         Help them to understand the concept of holistic health, its various dimensions and determinants and the importance of sports and yoga for development of holistic health

·         Develop positive attitude towards health as individual and be collectively responsible to achieve it

·         Equip them to know their health status, identify health problems and beinformed for taking remedial measures

·         Make them aware about rules of safety in hazardous situation (illness, accident and injury) and equip them with first aid measures about common sickness andinjuries;

·         Encourage them to learn and to form right habits about exercise, games andsports, sleep, rest and relaxation

·         Sensitize, motivate and help them to acquire the skills for physical fitness, learncorrect postural habits and activities for its development

·         reate interest for the practice of yogasanas and meditations through which they learn the skills/art of self-control, concentration, peace and relaxation to avoid illeffects of stress, strain and fatigue of routine life

·         Help them to understand and develop skills to deal with psycho-social issues including those, related to process of growing up during adolescence, HIV/AIDSand substance abuse

·         Understand various policies and programmes related to health, physicaleducation and yoga and

·         Help them to understand the process of assessment of health and physicalfitness.