Proceedings of The All-India Teachers' Conference on Audio-Visual Education Held at The Central Institute of Education, Delhi July 7-13, 1956

Abstract

From Foreword: The new audio-visual techniques developed in recent years have a special role to play in the education of children and—together with the traditional methods which can be integrated with them—they can help them to acquire that facility in the effective use of the hand and the brain which has given to man his paramount position in the world. In our country this has not yet been fully realized and it is necessary to make our educationists and teachers sensitive to our inadequacies in this field and keep them in touch with promising lines of advance, which are being tried in this or other countries. This is the main consideration underlying Government of India’s programme of Audio-Visual Education Seminars and Conferences. The All-India Teachers’ Conference on Audio- Visual Education- the Report of which is now being published for the use of all teachers—was the fourth event in this series. It covered a wide field of related themes, ranging from the general problem of Audio-Visual education to specific topics like films and filmstrips, charts and pictures, silk-screen, field trips and aural aids like school broadcasts and linguaphone records. It is a matter of some satisfaction that a goodly proportion of papers read were contributed by officers connected with the Audio-Visual Section in the Ministry who brought their personal experience to bear on the problems discussed.