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National Institute for the Visually Handicapped, Dehradun SYLLABUS ON BACHELOR OF ARTS & BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (VISUAL IMPARMENT) B.A. & B.Ed. (V.I.) Rehabilitation Council of India (A Statutory Body under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment) B-22, Qutub Institutional Area New Delhi-110016 E-mail: - [email protected]; [email protected] Wed site: - www.rehabcouncil.org NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE VISUALLY HANDICAPPED, DEHRADUN DRAFT SYLLABUS FOR B. A., B. ED. (V. I.) PREAMBLE Special Education of the visually impaired children began in India in the last two decades of the 19th Century. For almost 70 years blind children were taught by teachers who had no earlier exposure or training in the education of the visually impaired. It was in the early sixties that the Ministry of Education began developing Teacher Training Programmes on a regional basis. Initially a composite course was offered. Subsequently the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped, Dehra Dun, one of whose important tasks is to promote manpower development, started separate courses at the Secondary and Primary levels. The Institute offers a Secondary level course of the duration of one year at four places in India. It also offer a one year course to Primary School Teachers of the Visually Impaired Children in eight places in the country. The feedback the Institute received from various sources shows that the quality of teaching imparted to the visually impaired children needs much to be desired. Moreover, no research is being undertaken to evolve new strategies or refine existing ones. Complexity of the education of the visually impaired has, in the past two decades or so, increased with the coming of more low vision children who require very specialized attention. Moreover, with advances in medical sciences many children have additional problems including cerebral palsy, hearing impairment and other neurological disorders. Thus the need for imparting better and more detailed training to teachers of the visually impaired children has assumed added significance. On reviewing the teacher training programmes in the country, the Institute found that N.C.E.R.T. had developed in its four Regional Institutes an integrated B. A., B. Ed I B. Sc., B. Ed. Degree courses. We felt that this pattern can, with advantage, be adopted by NIVH so that the student teacher has adequate exposure to the visually impaired children particularly those with associated disorders before he takes up teaching these children as a career. We have, therefore, for the time being, developed a draft B. A., B. Ed Course of the duration of four years. Since some of our student-teachers will themselves be visually impaired and at present Science teaching facilities for the visually impaired are not well developed, we have decided to launch only B. A. B. Ed. Course. At an appropriate time, depending upon success of this experience, we may launch B. Sc., B. Ed course as well. Since most books on visual impairment are currently available in English,. it has been decided to make English a compulsory subject in all the four years. The gradual shift in this policy may become necessary with more literature on visual impairment becomes available in Hindi and other regional languages. In the syllabus we have endeavoured to include every possible aspect of the education of 1 the visually impaired children including strategies for teaching children with low vision, mentally retarded and slow learning visually impaired children, deaf-blind children and blind children with neurological disorders or learning disabilities. The principle object of the Course is to afford to the student teacher an opportunity to equip himself for achieving quantum jump in improving quality of instruction to the visually impaired children. Such a course of action is in consonance with the declared policy of the Government to develop a ‘society for all’ and promote• inclusive education. Thus the student teacher will be prepared to develop child-centered approaches in his teaching in order to facilitate mainstreaming of the visually impaired child in every walk of the life. 2 ORDINACES RELATING TO EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS AND BACHELOR OF EDUCATION (VISUAL IMPAIRMENT) 1. The four-year degree course in Arts and Education provided by the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped, Dehra Dun (affiliated to the I-INB Garhwal University, Srinagar) shall lead to the degree of B. A., B. Ed. (V. I.) This degree course shall consist of four academic years, there being an examination at the end of each such year known as Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV- respectively and shall lead to the degree of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education (Visual Impairment). 2. A candidate who has passed the intermediate Examination of the Board of High School and Intermediate Education, Uttar Pradesh or of an Indian University incorporated by any law for the time being in force, or any other examination recognised by the university as equivalent thereto shall be eligible for admission to B.A, B. Ed (V.1) Part I. 2. (a) A Candidate who, has pursued a regular course of study for one academic session at N.I.VH. shall be eligible to appear at the B.A., B.Ed (V.1.) Part I examination. 2. (b) A Candidate who, after passing the B. A, B. Ed. (V. I.) Part I examination of the Four year Degree Course has completed a regular course of study for one academic session at N.I.V.H. shall be eligible to appear at the B. A., B. Ed. (V. I) Part II examination. 2. (c) A Candidate who, after passing the B.A, B. Ed. (V. I. ) Part II examination, of the Four years Degree Course has completed a regular course of study for one academic session at N.I.V.H. shall be eligible to appear at the B.A B. Ed. (V. I.) Part III examination. 2. (d) A Candidate who, after passing the B.A, B. Ed. (V. I. ) Part III examination of the Four years Degree Course has completed a regular course of study for one academic session at N.I.VH. shall be eligible to appear at the B. A., B. Ed. (V. I.) Part IV examination. 3. A candidate will be considered to have regularly attended an academic session if he/she satisfies the following conditions: (i) If he obtains a certificate of good conduct from the Head of his Department. (ii) If he obtains a certificate that he has attended at least 75% of lectures/seminars/practical/practice teaching; etc. However, the Director of the Institute ‘may at its discretion condone up to 5% deficiency attendance on grounds of genuine illness or other extraordinary circumstances. 4. The examination shall consist of thcory l)~lPC~5 and viva-voce or/and practical - examination. 5. English language and literature shall be compulsory in all the Parts. The candidate must pass in English -for promotion to the next year. 3 6. A candidate must pass in one of the liberal arts subjects chosen by him for promotion to the next year. The choices are the following: a) History/Archaeology & Culture - b) Economics c) Hindi Literature - d) Mathematics e) Political Science f) Psychology h) Philosophy i) Sanskrit j) Sociology 7. A subject of liberal art chosen by the candidate in B.A B. Ed. (V. I.) Part I shall I continue for. the next two years. No change will be, permitted in mid -course. All the courses pertaining to visual impairment and - education shall be compulsory in all the years. 8. Provided that a non—Hindi speaking candidate who has not studied Hindi at the High School level or at the Intermediate level and has also not offered Hindi as one of the subjects in B.A B. Ed. (V. I.) shall study General Hindi and will be expected to pass. However, the marks obtained by the candidate in this subject shall not be included in aggregate but the fact of his having passed in General Hindi shall be indicated in his degree but failure to pass in General Hindi shall not effect his results. 9. Each Liberal Art subject in B. A., B. Ed. (V. I.) Part I or B. A, B. Ed. (V. I.) Part II shall consist of two or three papers as the case may be and in B. A., B. Ed. (V. I.) Part III each Liberal subject shall consist of three papers. Each subject in General Education, - Visual Impairment and English shall consist of two papers, the details are specified in the syllabi. 10. Provided that in those subjects where lectures are supplemented by practicals there shall be a separate examination in practicals in each such subjects in each Part 11. In B.A, B. Ed. (V. I.) Part I and II, in order to pass the examination in Liberal Arts, the candidate should obtain a minimum of 40% in the chosen subjects. If a candidate fails to obtain this percentage but obtains an aggregate of 45% or more in the remaining subjects he shall be promoted to the next year but re-examined in the liberal arts subjects in the next years. 12. In B.A, B. Ed. (V. I.) Part I , II and III a candidate should pass in all the papers in English Language and Literature and obtain a minimum of 40% marks in each paper. But if he fails to do so he can be promoted to the next year if lie obtains an aggregate of 45% or more in the remaining subjects. But it will be compulsory for the candidate to pass in the next year in each of the papers in which he had-failed.
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