Pedagogy Of School Subject Physical Science

The need for and importance of pedagogy of sciences have been widely accepted in most of the developing countries including India. Most of the universities have either included this discipline in their curriculum of teacher¬education or intending to include it. Keeping in view the need, requirements and skills of a science teacher, this book has been prepared with special emphasis on the latest two-year B.Ed course in general and approved by the UGC. All major concepts of science are given their due place in this book. This book is written in a lucid, simple and systematic manner. The book is primarily intended to serve as a textbook for the teacher- trainees of B.Ed., who are specializing in the teaching of ‘physical sciences’, therefore, every attempt has been made to make the book useful for them. While preparing the book, the authors have freely consulted, quoted from and used the works of different authors on the subject, periodicals and journals. The authors are highly grateful to all such scholarly publications, their authors and publishers. I am deeply grateful to Miss H. Pasrich, Mrs. R. Dhar, Dr. (Mrs.) S. Rave, S.C. Bhatnagar, Dr. Arun Mishra and Dr Budhori of H.N.R University. I cannot forget the suggestions given by Sandhud Parchauri, Dr. R.P. Bhatnagar, Dr. Daljeet Singh and Dr. Veena for enhancing the standard of the book. I gratefully acknowledge the assistance provided by the science clubs on the sciences forums of u.P., M.P., H.P. and Rajasthan in the preparation and finalizing of the manuscript of this book. The author is also indebted to his publisher, Mr. Vinay for making arrangements for speedy publication of this work. Any suggestion, observation and comment for improvement of this book will be warmly appreciated and shall be gratefully acknowledged ..