CONTENTS:- Introduction; Nursery Education and its implications; The Pioneers of Nursery education; Growth and development of Nursery education in India; Review of researches of Nursery education; Nursery teacher education in Delhi; Nursery teacher education: A review of researches; The Urban perspective: Form and content; Nursery education in Delhi; A Status report; Nursery teacher training in Delhi: A Status report; A retrospective: Meeting the challenge.
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This book focused on understanding the quality and status of nursery education. Various factors that directly and indirectly affect its quality were studied. These included study of various documents like reports of various education commissions, Five year plans in India, budgetary provisions for Nursery Education, development of nursery education in India since pre-independence years to till date and status and nature of research studies undertaken in the field. The publication also includes critical analysis of the information gathered through various sources which revealed many facts and issues that really need to be looked into seriously and initiatives to be taken for bringing an improvement in the status of this area of child development and education. This book will be of great value not only to the student, teachers and research scholars but also to the planners and policy-makers.
