Teacher’s Perception and Evaluation of the Social Behavior of Children in Two Systems of Pedagogy

By : Kiran Kumar K. Salagame , Archana Bhat Kallahalla

Page No: 271-278

Abstract
The teacher’s relationship and understanding of the students in primary schools is a crucial factor in the child’s adjustment to the school and overall social adjustment, which in turn translates into social adjustment in adulthood. This article reports the findings of a study that examined the impact of two different pedagogical environments on teacher’s accuracy of understanding the students. The two pedagogical environments chosen for the study are the teacher centered pedagogical environment Talk Chalk method which is used in most of the private schools and the collaborative group learning based Nali Kali pedagogy which is adopted in the government primary schools of Karnataka. The study further tries to analyze the differences in the evaluation of the child’s social behavior and capabilities as reported by the teacher and the evaluation by a semi projective test that measures social cognition in young children with respect to the semi urban and rural environments of the schools.

Authors :
Archana Bhat Kallahalla : Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Humanities, BMS College of Engineering, Bengaluru.
Kiran Kumar K. Salagame : Professor (Retired) — Department of studies in Psychology, University of Mysore, Mysore.