Teaching Techniques

Teaching techniques-An experimental study refers to attitudes form not only colorful determinants of behavior but also an absorbing area of research. Attitudes are stable mental dispositions towards psychological objects such as persons, ideas, objects, institutions and situations in the environment formed basing on one's experiences and having cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. They may be positive (favorable) or negative (unfavorable) with variations in strength that can be represented on a dichotomous continuum. Attitudes also form a major set of relatively stable affective outcomes of education. Developing healthy attitudes or producing attitude change in the right direction is a part of the function of education. Therefore, psychologists, sociologists and educationalists should be interested not only in assessing attitudes as they are in a give individual or group but also in the factors and procedures those facilitate attitude formation and change. Certain attitudes assume special relevance in a society in a given period. Formation or change of such attitudes, then, becomes the concern of the the society in general and on education in particular. In the present Indian context, attitudes in respect of family planning. Casteism and manual work among other things seem to be of special importance. Theories of attitudinal change and a wide range of studies on attitutdes especially changes have been reviewed.