CONFERENCE RESOLUTIONS

 

International Conference: Angel Matriculation Higher Secondary School Thiruninravur, Dt. Tiruvallur, Tamil Nadu

Dates: October 10 -12 October, 2005

Theme: Improving Rural Education

Resolutions:

*Community based paradigms be developed for harnessing rural talents and creativity and help them grow.

*Special programmes be designed to develop social competencies among the students.

*Specific programmes be initiated to improve skills in languages including English language and also skills in mathematics and science.

*Only interested individuals be appointed as teachers in rural schools and culture specific training should be provided to them so as to make learning environment friendly and community based.

*Local human and material resources be utilised in preserving Folk Art and for developing disaster management skills and strengthening vocational pursuits.

*Additional incentives may be provided to rural school teachers.

*Educational Technology be adapted for improving rural education.

*Psychological reorientation may be made available for rural teachers.

* A journal may be brought out for rural education that probes into situations prevailing in rural schools

XVIII Annual Conference as International Conference: St. Ignatius College of Education,

Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu

Dates: January 27 to 29, 2005

Theme: Learning Centred Education

Resolutions:

1. All the participants would work whole heartedly for Learning Centred Education no matter where s/he may be;

2. They shall look for successful implementation strategies of Learning Centred Education at macro level with a view to create synergy in various modes of education;

3. The approach national bodies like  UGC, NCERT, NCTE etc. shall be approached for giving Learning Centred Education a space in their activities for collecting empirical evidence for its efficacy;

4. The participants  will  give emphasis to the importance of dialogue approach in teaching-learning transactions in order to create Learning Centred Education as a reality in situations where it is applicable; and

5. Teacher education institutions involved in initial training and professional development of teachers may encourage the use of dialogue approach

 

XVII Annual Conference as International Conference: Department of Education, Saurastra University, Rajkot, Gujarat

Dates: March 10 to 12, 2004

Theme: Fourth Wave - Education

Resolutions:

1. In order to create a Caring society, ‘respsonsivism’ and spiritualism should guide the conceptual framework, structures and functions of education in terms all the courses and programs at all levels of education including life long education.

2. Constructivism should be encouraged as the primary approach of learning at all stages and

forms of education.

3. Systems thinking should be the hall mark of learning, teaching, and researching in the area

of school education, teacher educators, parent’s education and the management of education.

4. The curriculum should be energized through the support of Action Research undertaken by

teachers and students at all levels of education.

5. Synergetic networking for Collaborative Partnership of Educational institutions,

Government Departments, and Business Organizations should aim at developing strategies of

human development for the Fourth Wave Education.

XVI Annual Conference as International Conference: Khalsa College of Education, Amritsar, Punjab

Dates 20h to 2d March, 2003

Theme: Research Issues on Peace and Development

Resolutions

The AIAER would carry on its activities by seeking direction from socio-political developments at local, national and international levels with special emphasis upon the education of the under privileged sections of the society.  In the 16th AIAER international conference, the following theme-related resolutions were taken.

 

1.   Researches at grassroots as well as formal level would be taken up in the area of peace and development.

2.   Education for peace and development would be propagated through non-formal courses and programs.

3.   In the school and college curriculum education for peace and development should be included.

4. Education for peace and development would be propagated through non-formal programs/courses.

5.   Cosmic and futuristic viewpoints would determine the conceptual framework and its optional strategies in the area of peace and development.

6.   Rational approach to the development of peace would be taken up by the administrators, teachers, teacher educators, parents and children by designing systematic and sustained activities of research.

7.   Research studies at the levels of masters, doctoral and others degree/ diplomas/certificates should take care of intrinsic and extrinsic peace, and socio-economic and cultural development.

8.   The local bodies in the state chapter shall play an active role in implementing peace and development oriented programs.

XV Annual Conference: Department of Education, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

Dates: 31 May to 2 June, 2002

Theme: Research Issues in Thinking Skills and Values

Resolutions

Considering that

The holistic approach to introduce value and thinking is an important pre-requisite for effective education

That we will demand planned input for new approach to thinking and values for the stakeholders – administrators, teachers,     parents and children; and

That a holistic way to undertake research in the area of thinking and values may be looked into from a view of integration

 We resolve that

1. Rational approach to the development of thinking amongst the administrators, teachers, teacher educators, parents, and children is to be designed through systematic and sustained activities of research

2. Rational approach that takes care of scientific logical and spiritual aspect of learning may be used for the development of values.

3. Thinking and values are to be integrated in curriculum of school education and teacher education.

4. Appropriate teaching strategies for teaching and training are to be developed to foster thinking and values amongst the children. There is an urgent need of conducting research to develop and validate teaching strategies.

5. The local bodies in the state chapter shall play active role to implement thinking and value programme

 XIV Annual Conference: VML PG College for Women, Ghaziabad, UP

Dates: 27 to 29 May, 2001

Theme: Issues, Policies, Programs and Research in Information Technology

Resolutions

1. Policies regarding the introduction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

in education be formulated at the national, state and local levels.

2. Curriculum for the introduction of ICT in school education systems, higher education systems, and teacher education systems must be formulated immediately by involving expertise in computer sciences, social sciences and pedagogy.

3. The teacher education institutions and Academic Staff Colleges be enabled to introduce, apply and integrate ICT in their pre-service courses, orientation courses, refresher courses and in-service training programmes at all levels.

4. Flexible research group structures be formed to undertake researches for teaching of languages, social sciences, natural sciences and other areas of curricular activities.

5. Research studies at the levels of masters, doctoral and other degree/diplomas and certificates be undertaken.

 

XIII Annual Conference: SNDT Women’s University, PVDT College of Education, Mumbai

Dates: May 28 to May 30 2000

Theme: Research Issues in Curriculum

Resolutions:

1.      1.      The Association may seek the financial support of NCTE, UGC and other funding agencies to encourage the development of the substantive literature and pedagogical literature about Critical and Creative Thinking Skills. Institutions and members may be supported and encouraged for preparing micro and macro projects with financial support.

2.      2.      The Web Page Manager of the Association may improve the quality of the page with a view to facilitate the possibility of undertaking a pilot project with the support of PVDT of SNDT and the info-tech group from the community, especially at Pune along with help from any such agency.

3.      3.      UGC, NCTE, and NCERT may be approached to launch a program for developing Minimum Levels of Information Technology (IT) facilities in all the Teacher Training Institutions and the advanced IT programs in 100 such institutions in the next two years.

4.      4.      Distance Education, Open Education and Networking Education Methodologies may be utilized for the development of teachers, support staff, educational writers, parents and others on a continuing and a long-term basis. MHRD, UGC and other international bodies may be approached for providing academic, administrative and financial facilities.

5.      5.      On the lines of the National Policy of Education (NPE), the States and other bodies, may prepare through a participatory approach state Education Plans, District Education plans and Local Education Plans. Eventually, these plans may be translated into local programs and their criteria of accountability.

6.      6.      The Association may undertake a project for the preparation of study material for the National Eligibility Test (NET) /State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) Examination for Education.

7.      7.      The Association may publish quality papers to be presented at each Annual Conferences as a prized publication in the form of a Year Book.

8.      8.      The Association may notify its members a year in advance about the theme of the forthcoming conference along with proper guidelines and instructions so that they prepare themselves accordingly.

9.      9.      The Association will continue to extend conference-invitations and brochures to agencies like NCTE, UGC, NCERT, etc. which may depute and support their own representatives.

XII Annual Conference: Sohan Lal DAV College of Education, Ambala, Haryana

Dates: 15 December to 17 December 1999     

Theme: Issues in Teacher Education

Resolutions:

1.      Lifelong continuing education of teachers, teacher educators and the researchers is the essential input to improve the quality of education. The delegates of the 12th Annual Conference of AIAER recommend that the distance education and indigenous technologies may be utilized for organization of suitable programs.

2.      Action research for improving the quality of education and self-esteem of teachers at school and higher education levels is to be utilized in a mass manner. Mechanism to initiate self-managed and centrally managed action research projects be initiated.

3.      Institutions and their heads should initiate local policies and local programs for the improvement of parent education and community education.

4.      Young researchers from different disciplines including Education must be inducted for undertaking research and development programs. Local level resources by local people may be initiated.

5.      Apex bodies like NCTE should give academic support to researches in teacher education and teaching especially on classroom procedures so as to develop process norms based on empirical evidences.

6.      The AIAER may undertake short-term summer programs for the training of researchers including school teachers. The members of AIAER should undertake researches and publish them in good journals.

 

XI Annual Conference(a): BEA College of Education, Davangere, Karnataka

Dates:  May 25 to 27, 1998

Theme: Action Research in Education

  

XI Annual Conference (b): GHGH College of Education for Women, Sidhwan Khurd, Ludhiana Dt., Punjab

Dates: September 28 to 29, 1998

Theme  Updating Teacher Education

Resolutions:

1. Decentralised education including teacher education must be localised in terms of content and procedures.

2. Lifelong education of teachers is an essential requirement of enhancing self esteem of teachers and for improving the quality of teaching. Open universities can effectively contribute to lifelong education of teachers and continuing education of the community in general. For this, open learning systems like Open Universities and State Open Schools catering to needs of marginalised groups who could not avail educational facility through formal education should be opened.

3. Mass movement of educational research by school teachers is desirable, feasible and possible for improving the educational scenario. All teachers at all levels should engage themselves in the process of creation of knowledge in their own environment.

4. Women empowerment through research of localised issues and other mechanisms for the betterment of the society should be the centre stage of future efforts.

5. Adherence to responsibility, accountability and professional ethics is essential for teachers.

 

We, therefore, as members of this association pledge to give all kinds of co-operation and support.

 

X Annual Conference : Dev Samaj College of Education for Women, Chandigarh

Dates:  May 29 to  31, 1997

Theme:  Education and Human Rights

 IX Annual Conference: St. Christopher’s College of Education for Women, Madras

Dates: June 5 to 7, 1996

Theme: Education for Excellence

VIII Annual Conference: Dept. of Education, Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam

Dates:  May 25-27, 1995

Theme: Education & human Resource Development

Resolutions:

  1. The Central Government and the State Governments be moved to initiate research studies on wastage of human resources in schools and colleges that take place due to loss of teaching days and hours.
  2. The University Grants Commission be requested to take steps for specification of minimum number of teaching days for each new course of study and for existing courses of studies by undertaking steps for change of regulations in universities.
  3. The University Grants Commission be requested to take steps for specification of minimum hours of classroom instruction and weightage for each unit of every paper of a course of study.

 

VII Annual Conference: Dept. of Foundations of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Dates: June 1 -3, 1994

Theme: Innovations in Education

 

VI Annual Conference: St. Ann’s College of Education, Mangalore, Karnataka

Dates:  May 25 to 27, 1993

Theme: Educational Management

Resolutions:

 

  1. A nucleus cell of senior researchers be formed to extend guidance and support in the formulation of research design and for getting resources from various funding agencies.
  2. One session of every conference be devoted exclusively for research methodology – innovations and applications.
  3. The members of AIAER donate and mobilise donations and collect advertisements for establishing a Journal fund and that its accounts be separately maintained.
  4. The AIAER should encourage conduct of action/applied research in any branch of education so as to present the findings at the next conference and to call upon all members to carry out researches on contemporary and relevant themes and innovative procedures.
  5. A mechanism be evolved for giving award to meritorious papers presented at the conferences.
  6. The Association should institute an annual award for best Ph. D. Thesis during a calendar year.
  7. Association to take steps for finalising details and procedures of transferring to the Association a portion of fees from delegates received by the Conference Organisers.

 

 

V Annual Conference: Department of Education, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra

Dates: June 14-16, 1992

Theme: Quality Improvement in Educational Research

Resolutions:

  1. The University Grants Commission and the National Council of Educational Research and Training be requested to provide financial assistance to AIAER, University Departments of Education and Post Graduate Departments of Education in General Colleges and Colleges of Education for publication of educational journals devoted to specific areas of education based on the researches carried out in the concerned areas.
  2. The Indian Council of Social Science Research , the University Grants Commission and the National Council of Educational Research and Training be requested to provide financial assistance to AIAER, University Departments of Education and Post Graduate Departments of Education in General Colleges  and Colleges of Education  to bring out Bibliographies on various areas of educational research.
  3. The Universities be requested to introduce a system of evaluation of research proposals in a meeting of the faculty members of the concerned institutions before they are sent to universities for registration.
  4. The training sessions for developing competencies in educational researchers be conducted by AIAER.
  5. Appropriate linkages of AIAER be established with other professional organisations to explore joint endeavours in the field of educational research.

 

 

IV Annual Conference: RV Teachers’ College, Bangalore, Karnataka

Dates: April 19-20, 1991

Theme: Education for All

Resolutions:

1. Minimum Levels of Learning should be ensured for the children in the age group  6-14 in both formal and non-formal systems of education.

2. Pre-service and in-service teacher education programmes should provide necessary inputs for effective implementation of MLL.

3.  Study groups consisting of researchers from different disciplines , teacher educators and school teachers should evaluate programmes meant for providing basic education of different target groups and should formulate necessary guidelines for need based research and practice.

4. Resource Centres should be established at various pockets to cater to the needs of the neighbouring schools in terms of instructional materials, including reference books, journals, audio-visual aids, evaluation tools and expert personnel to provide a forum for exchange of ideas and dissemination of research findings.

 

III Annual Conference: Chembur Comprehensive College of Education, Bombay, Maharashtra Daters:  December 31, 1989 to January 1, 1990

Theme: (a) Vocationalisation of Education; and (b) Follow up Studies on Teacher Education

 

II Annual Conference: Radhanath Training College, Cuttack, Orissa

Date: January 14 1989

Theme: Training for College Teaching

 1 Annual Conference: Radhanath Training College, Cuttack, Orissa

Date: December 24, 1987

Theme: Teacher Education