10. • Cleaning the neighbourhood
• Home visits to educate young mothers
• Visiting hospitals
• Joining in adult literacy campaigns.
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1. Knowledge as Participation
11. • What is taught in educational
institutions as outlined by curriculum,
syllabus, textbooks/reference books
• Progress in learning periodically
assessed by oral, written or practical
tests.
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2. Knowledge as Content
12. • Knowledge and learning are related. By relating
what one learns now, what he has already learnt,
his knowledge gets restructured and refined.
• Knowledge and experience are related. What,
when and how to learn and the interaction
between knowledge and experience goes on.
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3. Knowledge as Relation
14. • Expertise in local history
• Problems of people living in the locality
• Resources available for development
• Socio economic data are necessary.
• Feel of ground realities.
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1. Local and Universal
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2. Concrete and Abstract
• Knowledge about things that actually exist
now or existed earlier and are factually
found to be correct are concrete
knowledge.
• Things which derive meaning , not through
our sensory experiences but from thinking
and reasoning are called abstract things.
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3.Practical andTheoretical Knowledge
• Taking the shortest route from place A to
Place B is concerned with practical matters.
• Theoretical propositions like ‘Total
Prohibition', 'removing Social imbalances’
can be discussed but not demonstrated
before any audience.
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4. Contextual andTextual
• Context means circumstances in which something
happens or in which something has to be
considered.
• Texts provide lot of information. Text books
provide graded information in a language style for
a particular group taking into consideration, the
physical and mental abilities and psychological
needs.
