“The main objective of education is to becomed responsible, productive and useful members of the society. Knowledge skills and attitudes are built through learning experiences and opportunities created for learners in school. It is in the classroom where learners can analyze and evaluate, their experiences learn to doubt, to question, to investigate and to think independently.” (CBSE manual 2009 p.1.). Thus, all round development as stated, one of the purposes of education implies optimization of hidden potential of every child in the physical, intellectual, mental and spiritual planes. About this Dewey said that, “Education is the development of all those capacities in the individual which enable him to control his environment and fulfill
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Attitudes lead individuals to react in certain ways to events or situations they encounter.
1.2.1 Characteristics of Attitude
a. Attitude is learnt: A person is not born with attitude but he acquires it through process of becoming an acceptable member of the group he belongs to. A person develops attitude from experiences of life. These experiences and process of socialization may predispose a person favourably or unfavorably to object or event in question.
b. Attitude gives direction: Attitude directs our behaviour in either away from an object or towards the object. For example, a favourable attitude towards education will impel people to send their children to school for formal education for betterment of their life, while an unfavourable attitude may prompt them for not sending children to school.
c. Relative permanency: It means attitudes are stable over time and changes in them take place only …show more content…
Attitude is always related to some issue, object or thing: This means for the development of attitude occurrence of some event, thing or person is a must. Attitudes do not originate in vacuum.
e. Attitude has motivational properties: Attitude motivates a person to do some behaviour more readily than others. For example, an individual having positive attitude for sports may readily go for play than pass his time reading book.
Attitude is a word frequently used by us in our daily life. In its common sense it refers to an individual’s specific state of mind through which he expresses his opinions and feeling towards some conditions, things, event and persons in his social environment. In simple words we can say that attitude is generally positive or negative views of a person (including oneself), place, thing or event (object).
1.2.2 Attitude of
Attitudes lead individuals to react in certain ways to events or situations they encounter.
1.2.1 Characteristics of Attitude
a. Attitude is learnt: A person is not born with attitude but he acquires it through process of becoming an acceptable member of the group he belongs to. A person develops attitude from experiences of life. These experiences and process of socialization may predispose a person favourably or unfavorably to object or event in question.
b. Attitude gives direction: Attitude directs our behaviour in either away from an object or towards the object. For example, a favourable attitude towards education will impel people to send their children to school for formal education for betterment of their life, while an unfavourable attitude may prompt them for not sending children to school.
c. Relative permanency: It means attitudes are stable over time and changes in them take place only …show more content…
Attitude is always related to some issue, object or thing: This means for the development of attitude occurrence of some event, thing or person is a must. Attitudes do not originate in vacuum.
e. Attitude has motivational properties: Attitude motivates a person to do some behaviour more readily than others. For example, an individual having positive attitude for sports may readily go for play than pass his time reading book.
Attitude is a word frequently used by us in our daily life. In its common sense it refers to an individual’s specific state of mind through which he expresses his opinions and feeling towards some conditions, things, event and persons in his social environment. In simple words we can say that attitude is generally positive or negative views of a person (including oneself), place, thing or event (object).
1.2.2 Attitude of