The book 'Education In Emerging Indian Society' contains 55 chapters. For better organization, the chapters are grouped tentatively in five sections.

Section one comprises the conceptual meaning of education, the bases and aims of education in the present context. Agencies of education and mode of dissemination of education have been included.

Section two deals with traditional as well as contemporary philosophies of education like Idealism, Naturalism, Pragmatism, Realism, Eclecticism, Marxism, Fascism, Progressivism, Perennialism, Essentalism, Reconstructionism & Exisentialism.

Section three contains the educational thoughts and ideas of great Indian Educationists like Dayananda, Vivekananda, Aurovindo, Gopabandhu, Gandhi, Tagore, and Western thinkers like Rousseau, Froebel, Montessori, Dewey.

In the section four sociological foundation of education like Education and Sociology, Education and Culture, Curriculum and its Types, Economics of Education, Deschooling, Socialism, Secularism, Totalitariaism, etc., have been discussed.

Section five covers current trends, issues and developments in education. Here UPE, NPE 1968, 1986, 1992, Value education, Population Education, Education for National Integration, International Understanding, Vocationalisation of Education, Environmental Education, Family Life Education, Sex Education, etc. These chapters are made updated to make it relevant to readers for enhancement of their knowledge of modern trends and issues in education.

Prof. B.K. Nayak :

Born in 1948, Prof. Bijaya Kumar Nayak has had his M.A., M.Ed., from Utkal University and Ph.D in Education from Berhampur University. He has 38 years of teaching experience in premier Govt. Institutions, teaching the subject Education in Degree level, B. Ed., M. Ed., M.A (Education), M. Phil (Education) and he produced many Ph.D scholars under his guidance. He acted successfuly as the Head of the Postgraduate Department of Education Ravenshaw University and as Principal, College of Teacher Education, Bolangir, Odisha. More than 20 Books on Education have been written by him, many of them are prescribed textbooks and have deserved a number of editions with high degree of appreciation. His research papers have been published in reputed Journals and Magazines. He is now guiding Scholars for Ph.D in Education. As an eminent academics and subject expert he has conducted and acted as Resource Personnel and academics consultant in various programmes. He is a member of different Academics Bodies, organizations, Renowned Boards. Many authorities and Organisations have adorned merits and medals for his outstanding performance and life time achievement in the field of pedagogy.

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