This can give you some ideas about the basics of education, especially it discusses some topics of education considering the context of Bangladesh Education.

1. Goutam Roy, Lecturer
Institute of Education and Research
University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi
Bangladesh
July 26, 2013

2. What is Education?
Classical
 Education changes the behavior of
human which is accepted by the society
Current situation?
 To improve the skill of a person and to
make a person as a competent to live

3. What is Education?
 Latin word – Educare (to lead out or to
draw out)
 Latin word – Educere (to bring up or to
train)
 Latin word – Educo (to lead)

4. What is Education?
UNESCO - Learning: The Treasure Within
 Learning to know
 Learning to live
 Learning to live together
 Learning to be
- International Commission for Education for
the twenty-first century, Jaques Delors
(1993)

5. Basics of Education
 Education is a fundamental human
RIGHT – UN
 Is Education a right in Bangladesh?

6. Literacy
 1951: Ability to read any clearly printed sentence
 1961: Ability to read any language with
understanding
 1974: Ability to read and write any language
 1981: Ability to write a letter
 1989: Ability to understand any sentence in own
language, express himself/herself orally or in
written form, calculate basic numerical data and
to write this
 2001: Ability to write a paragraph with
understanding

7. Milestones
 Paulo Freire- Pedagogy of the oppressed
(1970) and Education for critical
consciousness (1973)
 World Declaration on Education For All (EFA),
1990
 World Education Forum in Dakar, 2000
 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), 2000
 United Nations Literacy Decades, 2003-2012

8. Debates
 Educated vs. Uneducated
 Literate vs. Illiterate
 Literacy vs. Functional Literacy
 Teaching vs. Learning

9. New Concepts in
Education
 Inclusive Education
 Development Education
 Values in Education
 Human Rights Education
 Gender Education
 Sex Education
 Peace Education
 Population Education

10. Level of Education
 Early Childhood Care and Development
(ECCD)
 Pre-primary
 Primary
 Secondary
 Higher-secondary
 Tertiary

11. Classifications
 Formal Education
 Non-formal Education
 Informal Education

12. Relation with others
 Educational Philosophy
 Educational Psychology
 Educational Sociology
 Educational Anthropology
 Economics of Education
 History of Education
 Educational Planning, Development and
Management

13. Relation with others
 Comparative Education
 Technology Education
 Social Science Education
 Agriculture Education
 Industry Education
 Arts Education
 Science Education
 Educational Evaluation and Assessment
 And many more...

14. Learning Domains
 Benjamin Bloom from Chicago University
Cognitive domain
○ Knowledge
○ Understanding
○ Application
○ Analysis
○ Synthesis
○ Evaluation
Affective domain
Psychomotor domain

15. What we achieve?
 Content?
 Learning outcome?
 Competency?

16. Considering factors in
learning
 Learning objective
 Learning process
 Learning-friendly environment
 Learning motivation
 Learning activities
 Participatory and joyful learning
 Interactive and meaningful learning
 Peer and group learning

17. Education Commissions
British period (1757-1947) – Nine commissions
 1792 – Charles Grant education commissions
 1813 – Company charter
 1835 – Lord Macaulay committee
 1838 – William Adams committee
 1854 – Woods education despatch
 1882 – W W Hanter education commission
 1919 – M E Sadlar education commission
 1934 – Sa Pru education commission
 1944 – John Sargent education commission

18. Education Commissions
Pakistan period (1947-1971) – Five
commissions
 1949 – Maulana Mohammad Akram Khan education
committee
 1957 – Ataur Rahman khan education reform
commission
 1959 – S M Sharif education commission
 1964 – Judge Hamoodur Rahman education
commission
 1969 – Air Marshal Nur Khan education commission

19. Education Commissions
Bangladesh period (1971-present) – 10
commissions
 1974 – Qudrat-e-Khuda education commission
 1979 – Kazi Zafar Ahmad/Abdul Baten, interim policy
 1983 – Abdul Mazid Khan commission
 1986 – Mafiz Uddin Khan education commission
 1993 – Abdullah Al-Muti Sharfuddin, task force for PMED
 1997 – Shamsul Haque education commission
 2000 – National education committee
 2002 – M. A. Bari commission
 2003 – Mohammad Moniruzzaman Mia commission
 2010 – National Education Policy

20. What we discussed
about?
Pedagogy

21. Reference
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2. http://www.ugc.gov.bd/
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