Preface The Centre of Advanced Study in Education decided to study the process of teaching and teacher classroom behaviour in 1970. The importance of this field of study was already underlined internationally through the publication of the monumental work edited by N. L. Gage, namely, Hand- book of Research on Teaching and by the presidential address of Professor S. K. Mitra at the Psychology and Educational Science Section in the 67th Indian Science Congress in the year 1970. Three national seminars were held in 1971 and 1972. More than a dozen research scholars initiated studies in this area. The exploratory work completed during 1970 was first published under the title Communication in Classroom in 1971. During the next two years three more broachers were published, namely, Psychology of Teaching' -national lectures by Professor S. K. Mitra, Report of the Third National Seminar and Review of Research on Theory of Teaching by S. P. Bhattacharya. By 1974, nine studies in the area of teaching and teacher behaviour were completed. Eight out of nine studies were undertaken by scholars as part of their doctoral work. Incidentally, all of them have worked under the guidance of the editor. The present volume is the fifth publication in the area of teaching and teacher behaviour. It is hoped that this volume would provide needed information about research on teaching to Indian researchers.
Special thanks are due to Dr. N. K. Jangira for editing the manuscript during the first phase. The editor also thanks Miss M. S. Lalitha of CASE for having gone through the manu- script and the proofs with meticulous care. He acknowledges the help extended by Mr. S. Roy, Mr. T. Singh, Mr. D. N. Sansanwal, Dr. (Mrs.) Sudesh Mukherjee and Mrs. Bimla Passi in the arduos task of proof reading. Last, but not the least, thanks are due to the professional friends who were asso- ciated with the Cooperative Project on Productive Teaching (the report is presented in Chapter 2 of this volume) for their cooperation in the completion of the national study.
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