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General Knowledge and
Teaching Aptitude
Unit I Module 2.
General Studies  Environmental Issues, Movements, Treaties
Module 1. and Legislations -National and International.
 General Science –Mathematics, Statistics,
Module 3.
Physics, Chemistry and Biology (Basics –
 UN and Global Affairs
Class X Level)
Module 4.
Module 2.
 Institutions of Higher Learning and
 Social Science -Economics, History,
Research, Scholarships and New Initiatives
Geography and Indian Polity (Basics – Class
(National and State level )
X Level)
Module 5.
Module 3.
 Indian Constitution and Politics and Recent
 Humanities- Literature (Classics and
Legislations –Right to Information and Right
Masterpieces of World and Indian
to Education
Literature), Art (Major art forms of India) and
Culture (Life and Society in India) Module 6.
 Events, Persons and Awards
Module 4.
 Kerala Studies – Social reforms, National Module 7.
Movements, Kerala Model of Development,  Sports and Games
Literature, Art and Culture
Module 8.
Unit II  Culture (Films, Literature, Music and
Language and Reasoning Performing Arts)
Module 1. Unit IV
 Comprehension and Vocabulary Foundations of education
Module 2. Module 1. Philosophical Foundations
 Basic English Grammar  Educational Philosophy - Relationship
Module 3. between Philosophy and Education - Major
 Logical Reasoning and Analytical Ability Philosophical divisions and its impact on
aims, curriculum, and methods of teaching -
Module 4.
Concept of teacher, freedom and Discipline
 Numeracy Skills - Pattern Recognition and
 Major philosophical systems in the East –
Orders of Magnitude
Six Schools of Indian philosophy, Buddhism,
Unit III Jainism, and Islamic thought
Current Affairs  Major philosophical systems in the West –
Idealism, Naturalism, Pragmatism,
Module 1.
 Technology –Inventions, Innovations and Humanism and Realism, Democracy and
Critical Pedagogy
Discoveries
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 Eminent thinkers in Education – Gandhiji, Guidance and Counselling, life skills
Tagore, Vivekananda, Plato, Rousseau, education etc.
Montessori, Frobel, John Dewey, Paulo Freire  Personality- Approaches- Psychoanalytic,
 Value education – Classification of values, Behaviouristic, Humanistic, Trait approaches.
Significance of value education, Religious Motivation- Intrinsic and extrinsic.
and moral education and development of Approaches to motivation- behavioral,
values, Value crisis. humanistic, cognitive, and socio-cultural.
 Intelligence- Factor theories, Multiple
Module 2. Sociological Foundations
intelligence. Measurement of intelligence-
 Relation between education and sociology, -
Binet, Wechsler. Creativity
Meaning and scope of education and
 Social and Cognitive development- Erikson,
sociology, and sociology of Education,
Piaget, Vygotsky, Language- structure and
Interactive role of education and society, The
development. Memory and forgetting
relationship between education and culture.
 Social functions of education- Various  Adolescent characteristics- Cognitive,
Emotional and Motivational aspects. Peer
functions of education in society, functions
influence. Parenting difficulties
of society towards education. Functions of
education with regard to Culture– Module 4. History & policies of Education
Preservation, Transformation and  History of Education in Kerala and India.
Transmission. Early education history of India, introduction
 Social change and education - Social Change of modern English Education, Government’s
– Factors influencing social changes- Role of role in pre-Independence India, major
Education . Social mobility. Factors hinder reports & documents on education.
positive changes in the society, Important personalities in Education in India
Characteristics of Indian Society –class, and Kerala.
religion, ethnicity, language. Major changes  Reports and Policies on Education in post
occurred in Indian society Corruption,
independence period – NPE -first, second &
Terrorism, Antinational activities, Violence
third, BPEGEL, IEDSS
against women, Drug abuse and Alcoholism
 Acts and Bills Relevant to higher education:
etc. Role of education to curb Social evils.
Major Bills and Acts on Higher education
 Education and social institutions – Major
promulgated by the Parliament of India and
social institutions, Role of various social
the Legislative Assembly of Kerala
institutions to inculcate values connected
 Programmes for Universalisation of
with Democracy and Secularism, National
Education - Saakshar Bharat, RTE, DPEP,
Integration, Concept of global village
SSA, RMSA, RUSA ,
 Education and socialization – Factors
 Institutions of Education at National and
influencing socialization, education and
state level- MHRD, UGC, NCTE NCERT,
socialization process, Acculturation, value
NUEPA, SCERT, DIET, CTE, SIET, etc.
orientation- Teacher as a Change agent and
Nation builder, Cultural lag, cultural inertia, Unit V
Cultural diffusion
Teaching, Learning
Module 3. Psychological Foundations – and Evaluation
 Educational Psychology- Meaning, scope,
Module 1. Teaching Aptitude
fields of psychology- Educational
 Teaching aptitude – Teacher characteristics,
Psychology, School Psychology, Clinical
Teaching as a profession, Skill based
Csychology. Applications of Psychology-
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theoretical knowledge, Teacher competency  Applications of learning theories- Mastery
and teacher accountability, learning, reinforcement, situated learning,
 Administrative aptitude – Administrative problem-based learning, Building on students’
models, administrative roles of teachers, thinking, activity and constructing knowledge,
obligations to students, parents and society scaffolding, assisted learning, concept learning,
 Reflective practices –components in
setting learning objectives, etc.
reflective practice, innovative teaching,  Learner characteristics- Heredity,
mechanisms of feedback to learners, self
personality, intelligence, SES, culture,
assessment.
gender, experience, motivation, goal
 Professional development – Needs for
orientation, cognitive styles, learning styles
professional development, technological
 Learning environment- Class room climate,
advancement, professional associations, Pre-
home environment. Teacher’s personality.
service and in-service training, cluster
Individual learning and group learning.
training, teacher rating & grading
Group dynamics. Sociometry
 Teacher Characteristics – Essential characters
 Learners with special needs - Students with
for a quality teacher, professional qualities,
mental retardation, learning disabilities,
teacher as an agent of social reformation.
learning difficulties, behavioral problems,
Module 2. Teaching Methods
emotional problems; communication, visual
 Teaching skills – Essential teaching skills,
and hearing impairments, under achievers.
quality teaching and teaching skills,
Strategies- inclusive classroom, strategy
Microteaching.
training. Gifted students
 Methods of teaching – Analysis of Major
methods of teaching. Module 4. Evaluation
 Techniques and approaches to teaching –  Tools and techniques for evaluation – Paper
Individualized instruction, Group pencil Tests, Achievement and diagnostic
instruction, peer teaching, mentoring, tests, Performance tests, Cumulative records,
facilitated instruction, Distance and online Rating scale, Observation, Characteristics of
teaching, a good test
 Instructional models of teaching –  Continuous Evaluation – Measures for
Significance of Models of teaching – Concept continuous evaluation- Unit test,
attainment, Advance organizer, cognitive Assignments, Seminar, Collection, Project,
growth, group investigation models of Experiments, Portfolio etc.
teaching.  Terminal evaluation – Teacher made tests
 Teaching & Learning resources – and standardized tests, Public examination,
Classification of Audio-visual aids, Dale’s
Type of test items, Entrance examination,
cone of experience, Community resources,
Online tests, Interview
Web resources. Improvisation of aids,  Grading – Principles of grading, types of
Effective use of learning resources
grading, Absolute grading & relative
Module 3. Learning – grading, grading procedure, Merits and
 Learning theories- Behaviorist theories, demerits of grading
cognitive learning, Constructivist view.  Feedback and remediation – Feedback to
Classroom learning. Approaches of students, feedback to teachers, Institutional
Vygotsky, Piaget, Gagne, Bruner, Ausubel, mechanism for feedback collection, Remedial
& Bloom measures
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Unit VI Module 3. Research in Education –
Communication, Technology Research  Basic aspects of educational research –
and Educational Administration Meaning & Scope of research in education,
Steps in educational research, Uses of
Module 1. Communication
statistics in educational research
 Communication and Education –Meaning,
 Types of research- Historical, Descriptive
concept & scope, Communication as a major
and Experimental, Quantitative and
life skill, Effective interaction in classrooms.
qualitative
 Basic principles of communication –
 Methods, Tools & techniques of research –
Components of communication,
Surveys, Case study, Experimental,
Communication cycle, communication
process, sources of communication Document analysis, Questionnaire, Scales,
 Types of communication – Oral, written, Interview, Observation.
interpersonal, Non-verbal communication  Action research – steps in action research,
 Barriers in communication – Major barriers, significance of action research at school level
Interaction analysis, procedure for analysis  Reporting of research – steps in writing
 Classroom application of communication – research report, APA style, Plagiarism, ethics
Communication and effective teaching, in educational research.
meaningful learning, and proper application.
Module 4. Educational Administration
Module 2. Computer and ICT
 Planning and administration at national level
 Basics of Computer Knowledge: Basic parts
– National Curriculum Frameworks,
of a computer - I/O Devices – Memory -
National policy on education, Planning
Storage Devices - Operating System –
commission and education, National pattern
Database – FOSS – Common Computer
of Education system. NUEPA
Abbreviations and Terminologies.
 Computer Networks &Internet: Basics of  Organisational structure of education in the
state – Structure of School education, Higher
Computer Networks – Types of Networks –
Internet – WWW – Browsers – Search secondary level education, Higher education
Engines – E-mail – Virus – Anti-Virus system, Kerala State Higher Education
Software – Cyber Security – Cyber Law - Council, SIEMAT
India IT Act 2000.  School administration – Role and functions
 Office Tools: Word Processing – Editing & of Head of the institution, school council,
Formatting Document – Printing – Inserting subject councils, school parliament, PTA,
Tables & Pictures – Spreadsheet – Creating MPTA, School management committee
Worksheets – Working with Formula Bar –  Management & governance - Management
PowerPoint – Creating & Designing slides –
of resources at various levels, Provisions for
Insertion of objects and functions.
equal educational opportunities (free
 ICT Enabled Learning: e-Learning – e-
textbooks, free uniform, mid day meal, etc.),
Content Portals – Video Conferencing –
e-governance
Interactive Educational Tools – MOOC –
 International agencies and education – UN
Moodle – Smart Class Room - IT@School
and goals of education in India, Progrmmes
Project.
 General Applications: e-Commerce – e- for universal education in tune with
Governance – e-banking – Mobile Apps - international developments in the field of
Social Networking Apps – Green Computing education. Privatization and education at
– Supercomputing - Cloud storage. various levels.
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Paper II
Subjects
01. Anthroplogy 11. Geology 21. Mathematics 31. Statistics
02. Arabic 12. German 22. Music 32. Syriac
03. Botany 13. Hindi 23. Philosophy 33. Tamil
04. Chemistry 14. History 24. Physics 34. Urdu
05. Commerce 15. Home Science 25. Political Science 35. Zoology
06. Economics 16. Islamic History 26. Psychology
07. English 17. Journalism 27. Russian
08. French 18. Kannada 28. Sanskrit
09. Gandhian Studies 19. Latin 29. Social Work
10. Geography 20. Malayalam 30. Sociology
01. Anthroplogy  Culture Perspectives: Ethnocentrism,
Cultural Relativism, Emic and Etic.
Unit I Module 4. Family
Social and Cultural  Concept, definitions, functions and
universality; Family and household
Anthropology
 Typology of family - nuclear, joint, extended
Module 1. Meaning and scope of social and and others.
cultural anthropology  Residence patterns –matrilocal, patrilocal,
 Social-Cultural Anthropology: Nature, Scope neolocal, bilocal and others.
and Subject matter.  Stages of development of the family
 Branches of Anthropology.  Joint family system in India; changing trends
 Relation with other Social Sciences – in family.
Economics, History, Sociology, Psychology,
Module 5. Marriage
Archaeology, Linguistics, etc.  Possibility of a universal definition.
 Emerging trends and specializations in  Forms and types of marriage.
Anthropology.  Marriage regulations: Incest, Exogamy,
 Uniqueness and Perspectives in Endogamy, Hypergamy and Hypogamy.
Anthropology – Holism and Fieldwork.  Marriage payments- Dowry and Bride price;
Wealth and its relation to marriage stability.
Module 2. Basic concepts
 Culture, Society and Community  Mate Selection- Cross cultural perspectives.
 Institution, Group and Association Module 6. Kinship
 Social structure and Social Organization  Concept of Kinship and its place in Social
 Status and Role structure.
 Kinship system- Classificatory and
Module 3. Nature and Configuration of
Descriptive.
Culture
 Rules of descent and residence.
 Culture- Explicit and Implicit, Structure,
 Kin groups - Lineage, Clan, Phratry, Moiety
Attributes and paradoxes
and Tribe.
 Culture Processes- Enculturation,
 Kinship Behaviour- Joking and avoidance
Acculturation, Diffusion, Cultural Pluralism
behaviour, Couvade.
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 Kinship Terminology - Eskimo, Omaha, Unit II - Biological and Archaeological
Hawaiian, Crow, Iroquois, Sudanese. Anthropology
Module 7. Political Organization and Social
Module 1. Meaning and scope of Biological
Control
Anthropology
 Types of political organization, Concepts of
 Concept, history, development and scope
power, authority and legitimacy.
 Important branches and its relation to other
 Patterns of leadership in simple societies:
subfields of anthropology and medical
Band, tribe, age-grade, chiefdom, rank-
sciences
societies.
 Social control: Mechanisms of social control. Module 2. Man’s place in the animal kingdom
 Law and justice in simple societies;  Principles of taxonomy
Customary and codified law.  Classification, distribution and features of
 State and Stateless societies: The rise of State. living non-human primates (functional and
adaptation significances)
Module 8. Social Stratification
 Anatomical comparison between human and
 Principles and bases. Estate, Class and Caste
non-human primates (with reference to erect
 Social stratification and mobility in and
posture and bipedalism)
outside the caste
 Approaches to the study of social Module 3. Introduction to human evolution
stratification in India - functional and  Man as a primate
anthropological approach.  Bio-cultural evolution of humans
Module 9. Religious Organization Module 4. Theories of Organic evolution
 Anthropological approaches to the study of  Historical overview of emergence of
religion: Evolutionary, psychological, and evolutionary thought
functional.  Lamarckism and Neo-Lamarckism
 Ritual, Myth, Belief: Sacred and profane;  Darwinism and Neo Darwinism
sacred complex; religion and life-cycle  Mendalian laws of heredity
rituals.  Modern synthetic theory
 Forms of religion in tribal and peasant Module 5. Emergence of man-fossil evidence
societies- animism, animatism, naturism and  Pongids and Hominids
totemism.  Australopithecines
 Magico-religious functionaries: Priest,  Pithecanthropines (Homo erectus)
shaman, sorcerer, witch.  Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis
 Distinction between magic religion and  Homo sapiens sapiens
science.
Module 6. Biological Basis of Life, Heredity
Module 10. Economic Organization and Variation
 Tribal, peasant and other economies.  Cell structure and functions
 Ownership and property concepts in simple  Cell divisions-mitosis and meiosis and
societies genetic significance
 Modes of exchange: Reciprocity, Distribution  Importance of genetics in evolution and
and Redistribution - Kula Ring and Potlatch. recent developments in human genome
Market economy.
Module 7. Human genetics - basic concepts
 Hunting-gathering, pastoral, shifting
and principles
cultivation, agricultural and industrial
 Chromosomes and genes
economies.
 Autosomal, dominant, recessive and Co-
 Economic change and adaptation in societies.
dominant
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 Sex linked, sex limited and sex influenced  Linguistic diversity and language cultures of
 Multiple alleles and polygenic inheritance India.
(ABO blood groups, colour blindness,
Module 5. Social Disabilities
albinism, brachydactyly, Alkaptonuria)
 The Problem of untouchability
Module 8. Concept of Race, ethnicity and  Social Reform Movements
populations  Sree Narayana Movement
 Racial criteria and major divisions of man
Module 6. Approaches to the study of Indian
kind
culture and civilization
 Concept of Racism
 Folk-Urban Continuum
 Debate on ethnic groups and ethnicity
 Little and Great Traditions; Universalisation
Module 9. Biological anthropology in the and Parochialisation
service of human society  Sacred Complex. Tribe-Caste Continuum.
 Family welfare and genetic counseling Nature-Man –Spirit Complex
Module 10. Applications of Biological Module 7. Processes of Social Change
anthropology  Modernisation, Industrialisation,
 In Industry, medico-legal problems, defense Urbanization, Westernisation
services, public health and nutrition  Sanskritisation; Concept of Dominant Caste;
Pecuniarisation
Unit III
Module 8. The Tribes of India
Indian Society and Culture
 Major Tribes of India and Tribes of Kerala
Module 1. Culture, Society and Civilization  Transformation of Tribes; Theories of
 Concepts of culture, society and civilization transformation: Verrier Elwin to K.S Singh;
 Theories of Civilisation’s Emergence Tribal movements.
 Hydraulic theory, Trade Networks theory,  Tribal issues: Forest, land alienation,
Environmental and Social Circumscription Indebtedness, Poverty, Illiteracy,
theory, and Religion theory Displacement.
 Indian culture: tribal, folk, peasant and urban
Module 9. Aesthetic and Creative Aspects of
dimensions
Indian Culture
Module 2. Hindu religious and philosophical  Introduction to aesthetic and creative aspects
tradition of Indian culture
 Sacred books of India  Architecture, Sculpture, Theatre, Folk art,
 Indian social system: Purusharthas and Music, Dance, Indian Cinema
Varnashramadharma
Module 10. Changing Village India
 Varna System, Caste System; Caste Fission,
 Changes in Indian Village Communities
and Caste Fusion;
 Study of a selected cultural region in India
 Mobility in Caste System
Unit IV
Module 3. Indian Education System
 Evolution of Indian education system: Pre- Methodology of
British, British and Post-independence Anthropological Research
 Contemporary educational pattern
Module 1. Science and Scientific Research
 Non-formal education.
 Science, Objectivity, validity, testability
Module 4. Composition of Indian Population  Relation between theory and fact
 Racial/ethnic elements and demographic  Social science, value, subjectivity, Inter
composition of Indian population. subjective objectivity
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 Social science research, Ethical, Experimental  Classification, tabulation and presentation
and Epistemological problems.  Frequency distribution, Graphs and Histograms
 Measures of central tendency, Mean, Mode,
Module 2. Construction of Research Design
Median Measure of variation-Mean
 Identification of broad area of research
deviation and Standard deviation. Inter
 Review of literature, conceptual framing and
individual and Instrumental errors
concept mapping
 Formulation of research problem Module 8. Qualitative analysis-Introduction
 Hypotheses formulation  Context based analysis
 Determination of sample frame and size  Grounded theory approach
 The notion of control  Thematic analysis
 Construction of tools and techniques of data
Module 9. Ethnographic approach in
collection
anthropology
 Mode of analysis and reporting
 Contributions of Malinowski
Module 3. Fieldwork tradition in  Ethnographic study of Toda of Nilgiris -
anthropology Nature of data, Interpretation and functional
 Fieldwork tradition in anthropology integration
 Restudy and Reinterpretation Module 10. Preparation of Anthropological
research report
Module 4. Ethnographic approach in
 Structure, Steps and Procedure
anthropological research
 Features of anthropological fieldwork
Unit V - Method and Theory in
 Getting acquainted with the field
Socio-Cultural and Development
 Establishment of rapport
Anthropology
 Learning and using native language
 Informants/key informants Module 1. Introduction to Method and Theory
 Ethical dimensions of fieldwork  Anthropological Studies before and after
 Handling of sensitive and confidential Cultural relativism
information  Anthropological thought and Theoretical
 Distinction between Fieldwork and Survey Development in Anthropology
 Ethnography as a holistic documentation of  Schools of thought
culture  Relationship between Theory and Method
Module 5. Basic Techniques of data collection I Module 2. Evolutionism
 Interview-structured and non-structured,  Meaning of evolution. Nineteenth century
open ended, focus group interview and key evolutionism and its basic assumptions
informant interview  Evolutionary school of thought
 Observation-participant, non-participant  The comparative method as used by the
and quasi participant unilinear evolutionists
 Genealogy-technique and application,
Module 3. Diffusionism
Pedigree
 Diffusionist School of Thought
Module 6. Basic Techniques of data collection II  British and German- Austrian diffusionists
 Questionnaire and Schedule and their main assumptions
 Case method  American distributionists
 Personal, official and historical documents
Module 4. Functionalism
and sacred texts.
 Malinowski’s contributions to functionalism.
Module 7. Quantitative analysis: Basic statistics Relevance of terms like manifest/ latent
 Scrutiny and processing of data function and eufunction and dysfunction
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Module 5. Continuum Module 2.Fundamental concepts and approaches
 Continuum of Robert Redfield and its  Environmental determinism, Environmental
turning point in anthropological studies Possibilism
 Population ecology, System ecology, Ethno-
Module 6. Structural Functionalism
ecology
 Structural functionalism
 Contribution of Wissler, Forde, Steward,
 Interrelation of function and structure:
Vayda and Rappaport
Radcliffe-Brown, Firth, Fortes and Nadel
Module 3. Medical anthropology
Module 7. Cultural Patterns and Culture and
 Meaning and Scope of Medical anthropology
personality
 Ruth Benedicts Theory of Pattern  Concept of health and disease in India-tribal,
 Culture and personality: basic personality rural urban; Socio-cultural dimensions of illness.
construct and model personality  Ethnomedicine: Culturally appropriate
 National character studies and studies of medicine and health education. Regional
culture at a distance variation in India.Magico-religious curative
practices and indigenous medical care
Module 8. Structuralism
services
 Structuralism in linguistics and in social-
cultural anthropology Module 4. Health and Society
 Social structure as model: views of Levi-  Health care system and Health care services;
Strauss and Edmund Leach Heath education
 Structural analysis of myth and alliance  Psycho-somatic and mental disorders
Module 9. Post-structuralism Module 5. Applications of medical
 Post-structuralism, Contributions of Jacques anthropology
Derrida, Michel Foucault  Application of anthropological knowledge in
 Ethno-science promoting health care in tribal and rural
 New Ethnography and Componential communities. Programme,promotion and
Analysis changing health behavior
Module 10.Development anthropology and Module 6. Economic Anthropology
early thoughts on development  Meaning and scope of economic
 Meaning and scope of Development anthropology
Anthropology  Approaches to economic anthropology
 Development planning; Agencies or
Module 7. Economic theories
development: Government, Non-
 Fundamentals of modern economic theories
government and Voluntary.
 Nehruvian approach to planning and and their relevance to non-market economies:
formalist – substantivist controversy
Gandhiji’s vision of rural development
 Constitutional Safeguards and Legislative  Marxist theories on economy and society
measures Module 8. Habitat, Economy and Society
 Concepts of Inclusion and Exclusion  Hunting, food gathering
Unit VI - Ecological, Medical and  pastoralism
Economic Anthropology  Shifting (Sweden) cultivation
 Peasantry and urban-industrial economy
Module 1. Ecological anthropology
Module 9. Exchange and Service
 Meaning and Scope of Ecological anthropology
 Definition of ecology, Ecological community  Barter, ceremonial exchange, reciprocity,
redistribution (Gift, Potlatch, Kula ring)
and Human ecological Niche
 Cultural ecology  Jajmani System
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 Consumption pattern in subsistence
economies.
 Wealth status and social differentiation
Module 10. Organization of Subsistence
production
 Division of work: age, sex, specialization
 Property relations: right in resources
 Technology, capital, savings and investment
02. Arabic
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