Teachers occupy a very crucial place in the overall scheme of teaching and learning. With various pedagogical interventions and experimentation taking place now-a-days at policy and practice levels specifically in the domain of school eduction, teaching becomes a complex activity that, in many cases, requires teachers to redefine and reshape their existing knowledge, beliefs and practices. The present work is an attempt to enquire into the nature of the teacher development component of an innovative educational programme, which was configured and triggered off with alternative pedagogical...

The experimental nature of chemistry calls for laboratory experiences of students at all levels to be placed at the core of the curriculum planning and teaching-learning process. In a classroom situation, where chemistry concepts are imparted in a didactic way, students can be stuffed with facts and theories but without experiments they cannot experience the reality of chemistry as a science. Elaborating the importance of laboratory work in teaching of chemistry at senior secondary stage of schooling, this book attempts to analyze the relevance of prescribed chemistry laboratory experiments...