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Working Towards a Proficiency Scale of Business English Writing: A Mixed-Methods Approach
by Li Wang Jason FanThis book presents an empirical study to develop and validate a proficiency scale of business English writing in the Chinese tertiary context. Through a mixture of intuitive, quantitative and qualitative methods, the book demonstrates how a pool of descriptors are collectively formulated, statistically calibrated and meticulously validated for the establishment of a proficiency scale of business English writing. The writing scale differs in significant ways from the existing language scales, most of which were constructed in English as L1 or L2 contexts and applied to English for General Purposes (EGP) domains. This book also provides important insights into the construct of business English writing as well as the methods for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) proficiency scale development and validation. It is of particular interest to those who work in the area of ESP teaching and assessment.
How to Practice Academic Medicine and Publish from Developing Countries?: A Practical Guide
by Samiran Nundy Atul Kakar Zulfiqar A. BhuttaThis is an open access book. The book provides an overview of the state of research in developing countries – Africa, Latin America, and Asia (especially India) and why research and publications are important in these regions. It addresses budding but struggling academics in low and middle-income countries. It is written mainly by senior colleagues who have experienced and recognized the challenges with design, documentation, and publication of health research in the developing world. The book includes short chapters providing insight into planning research at the undergraduate or postgraduate level, issues related to research ethics, and conduct of clinical trials. It also serves as a guide towards establishing a research question and research methodology. It covers important concepts such as writing a paper, the submission process, dealing with rejection and revisions, and covers additional topics such as planning lectures and presentations. The book will be useful for graduates, postgraduates, teachers as well as physicians and practitioners all over the developing world who are interested in academic medicine and wish to do medical research.
Teaching 21st Century Skills: Using STEM Makerspaces
by Rekha B. Koul Rachel Sheffield Leonie McIlvennyThis book helps educators provide opportunities for their students to engage in creative and collaborative projects that blur the lines between subjects and promote problem-finding and problem-solving activities. It offers a global perspective on makerspaces through an Indian and Australian lens, illustrating the commonalities between the approach and the pedagogy in order to highlight the universal nature of these essential 21st-century skills. The book is particularly useful for science, technology and mathematics teachers, highlighting the potential of engaging in a more integrated curriculum approach to their specific discipline. It is of great interest to scholars whose research focuses on understanding 21st-century skills and how they can be taught and assessed in a school setting. It is an indispensable resource for teacher educators, school administrators, curriculum designers, policymakers and researchers in the field of science education.
Connecting the Library to the Curriculum: Transformative Approaches that Enhance Skills for Learning
by Lynette Torres Fiona Salisbury Barbara Yazbeck Sharon Karasmanis Janice Pinder Caroline OndracekThis book shares the experiences of the Monash University and La Trobe University libraries in Melbourne, Australia, regarding the paths taken to transform and reposition these libraries within their institutions. The book showcases the respective frameworks used to enhance library skill development programs and addresses central topics such as partnerships, pedagogy, curriculum, emerging skill agendas and student success. It offers a theoretical and practical approach to overcoming persistent challenges and discusses several pertinent areas, e.g., establishing library-faculty partnerships, explicitly and coherently developing students’ research skills with discipline-specific content and transforming perceptions of academic libraries’ educative role. The book highlights the current issue of enhancing students’ research skills, which is forcing many academic libraries to reassess their established practices and adopt pedagogical approaches that will more readily resonate with faculty.Chapters 3 and 19 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Digitally Enabling 'Learning by Doing' in Vocational Education: Enhancing ‘Learning as Becoming’ Processes (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Selena ChanThis book introduces, rationalizes and describes some ways to circumvent the challenges of providing ‘hands-on’ learning when programmes with practice-based focuses have to be offered via distance learning. It presents a framework to help deconstruct the many aspects of ‘learning to become’ a professional or practitioner. Then, it demarcates the skills, knowledge and attributes towards ensuring learners are prepared for the exigencies of the future of work. The book details the types of pedagogical approaches, including project/inquiry/problem-based learning, which help assist learners to learn both the competencies and capabilities required. It introduces technology-enhanced learning (TEL) platforms and tools supporting ‘education 4.0’, and presents a series of contemporary research studies on the integration of TEL, which are augmented and updated to allow for the challenges of provisioning opportunities for ‘learning by doing’ through distance learning. Finally, the book proposes recommendations to help ensure that institutions are better prepared for the sustainable shift to distance learning.
Introduction to Logic and Logical Discourse
by Satya Sundar SethyThis book focuses on logic and logical language. It examines different types of words, terms and propositions in detail. While discussing the nature of propositions, it illustrates the procedures used to determine the truth and falsity of a proposition, and the validity and invalidity of an argument. In addition, the book provides a clear exposition of the pure and mixed form of syllogism with suitable examples. The book encompasses sentential logic, predicate logic, symbolic logic, induction and set theory topics. The book is designed to serve all those involved in teaching and learning courses on logic. It offers a valuable resource for students and researchers in philosophy, mathematics and computer science disciplines. Given its scope, it is an essential read for everyone interested in logic, language, formulation of the hypotheses for the scientific enquiries and research studies, and judging valid and invalid arguments in the natural language discourse.
Writing as a Method for the Self-Study of Practice (Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices #23)
by Julian KitchenThis book focuses on the writing process in the self-study of teaching and teacher education practices. It addresses writing as an area in which teacher educators can develop their skills and represents how to write in ways that are compatible with self-study's orientations towards the inquiry, both personal and on practice. The book examines effective self-study writing with chapters written by experienced self-study practitioners. In addition to considering elements of writing as a method for the self-study of practice, it delves into the cognitive processes of real writers making explicit their writing practices. Practical suggestions are connected to the lived experiences of self-study practitioners making sense of their field through the process of writing. This book will be of interest to doctoral and novice self-study writers, and experienced authors seeking to develop their practice. It demonstrates that writing as a method of inquiry in self-study and beyond can be learned, modeled and taught.
Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects #58)
by Rupert Maclean Shanti Jagannathan Sungsup RaThis open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of ‘learning communities.’ It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, citizens, transport professionals, and technology companies. This collection seeks to contribute to the discourse on strengthening the fabric of a learning society crucial for future economic and social development, particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease.
Measuring and Developing Professional Competences in COMET: Method Manual (Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects #33)
by Felix RaunerThis book is a detailed manual for the implementation of competence diagnostics in the field of vocational training. With the COMET competence model, both conceptual competences as well as practical skills are recorded and evaluated. The manual guides through all methodological steps, including the preparation and implementation of tests, cross and longitudinal studies, the development of context analyses and measurement methods for the test motivation. The focus of the final chapter is the application of the COMET procedure for the design, organisation and evaluation of vocational education and training processes.
Managing Your Academic Research Project
by Jacqui Ewart Kate AmesThis book is an essential resource for academics managing a large and complex research project. It provides important practical insights into the processes that inform such research projects and delivers insights into the delicate balance between industry, stakeholder and academic needs. It gives practical advice about developing relationships with diverse partners and colleagues and managing the expectations of the various parties involved and on avoiding pitfalls. This book uses examples from Australian research projects, but it contains insights relevant to researchers all around the world.
The Art of Law Teaching (SpringerBriefs in Law)
by Lutz-Christian WolffWritten by an award-winning professor with over 25 years of experience, this book explains comprehensively the different facets of law teaching from the law teacher’s perspective. It uniquely covers numerous topics which have been ignored by the legal education literature so far, but which are of immense importance for the success of law students, law schools and—last but not least—the day-to-day work of law teachers themselves. These topics include the goals of law teaching, the factors that lead to successful law teaching, special characteristics of good law teachers, different ways of preparing for in-class success, face-to-face versus online teaching, the in-class teaching experience, assessments, teaching evaluations, the design of new courses and programmes, the teacher–student and the teacher–teacher relationship, the importance of teaching administration as well as the future of law teaching in the digital age. The author approaches various themes from the viewpoint of his own experience. He tells his very personal stories of classroom success and failure, of enthusiasm, fun and disappointments when dealing with law students, of accomplishments and frustrations when considering learning outcomes and of surprises when dealing with red tape. He thus allows the readership to grasp different aspects of law teaching in a very hands-own way and facilitates the understanding of the underlying often rather complex human-to-human relationships. This book should be in the bookshelf of any law teacher. As it covers a wide spectrum of so far unexplored legal education issues, it is also an invaluable source at the start of a law teaching career, but also for established law teachers who wish to reflect on their own teaching approaches. A rich body of cross-references to the existing literature makes the book a powerful tool for research on any aspect of legal education. Last but not least, the author’s ironic sense of himself and of the law teacher profession makes the book a very entertaining read for anybody who always wanted to know what law teaching really is (and is not) about.
Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs: Key Issues, Concerns, and Prospects (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects #55)
by Brajesh Panth Rupert MacleanThis open access book analyzes the main drivers that are influencing the dramatic evolution of work in Asia and the Pacific and identifies the implications for education and training in the region. It also assesses how education and training philosophies, curricula, and pedagogy can be reshaped to produce workers with the skills required to meet the emerging demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.The book’s 40 articles cover a wide range of topics and reflect the diverse perspectives of the eminent policy makers, practitioners, and researchers who authored them. To maximize its potential impact, this Springer-Asian Development Bank co-publication has been made available as open access.
Determining Sample Size and Power in Research Studies: A Manual for Researchers
by J. P. Verma Priyam VermaThis book addresses sample size and power in the context of research, offering valuable insights for graduate and doctoral students as well as researchers in any discipline where data is generated to investigate research questions. It explains how to enhance the authenticity of research by estimating the sample size and reporting the power of the tests used. Further, it discusses the issue of sample size determination in survey studies as well as in hypothesis testing experiments so that readers can grasp the concept of statistical errors, minimum detectable difference, effect size, one-tail and two-tail tests and the power of the test. The book also highlights the importance of fixing these boundary conditions in enhancing the authenticity of research findings and improving the chances of research papers being accepted by respected journals. Further, it explores the significance of sample size by showing the power achieved in selected doctoral studies. Procedure has been discussed to fix power in the hypothesis testing experiment. One should usually have power at least 0.8 in the study because having power less than this will have the issue of practical significance of findings. If the power in any study is less than 0.5 then it would be better to test the hypothesis by tossing a coin instead of organizing the experiment. It also discusses determining sample size and power using the freeware G*Power software, based on twenty-one examples using different analyses, like t-test, parametric and non-parametric correlations, multivariate regression, logistic regression, independent and repeated measures ANOVA, mixed design, MANOVA and chi-square.
Meta-Analysis: Methods for Health and Experimental Studies (Statistics for Biology and Health)
by Shahjahan KhanThis book focuses on performing hands-on meta-analysis using MetaXL, a free add-on to MS Excel. The illustrative examples are taken mainly from medical and health sciences studies, but the generic methods can be used to perform meta-analysis on data from any other discipline. The book adopts a step-by-step approach to perform meta-analyses and interpret the results. Stata codes for meta-analyses are also provided. All popularly used meta-analytic methods and models – such as the fixed effect model, random effects model, inverse variance heterogeneity model, and quality effect model – are used to find the confidence interval for the effect size measure of independent primary studies and the pooled study. In addition to the commonly used meta-analytic methods for various effect size measures, the book includes special topics such as meta-regression, dose-response meta-analysis, and publication bias. The main attraction for readers is the book’s simplicity and straightforwardness in conducting actual meta-analysis using MetaXL. Researchers would easily find everything on meta-analysis of any particular effect size in one specific chapter once they could determine the underlying effect measure. Readers will be able to see the results under different models and also will be able to select the correct model to obtain accurate results.
Smoothing a Critical Transition: Nontechnical Knowledge and Techniques for Student Researchers
by Xiaolong HuThis textbook equips students interested in becoming researchers with the essential nontechnical skills. After an introduction to graduate schools, it discusses preparing for research, reading and organizing literature, writing research articles and other documents, publishing papers, presenting research findings at conferences, collaboration with advisors and other researchers, patent applications, research ethics, and how to improve research by learning about the history of science. These nontechnical skills are just as important as technical ones in terms of becoming a successful graduate student, yet they have seldom been taught systematically in courses. Further, they can bridge the gap from the classroom to the lab, making one of the most critical transition periods—from student to researcher—smoother and more enjoyable. The book features a wealth of real-life examples and exercises, which readers can easily apply in their own research. Intended mainly for graduate and upper-undergraduate students just embarking on lab research, it can also be used as a textbook or reference guide for courses on research methodology and related topics.
Non-native English-speaking Engineers’ Writing at the Workplace
by Juan DuBased on 55 semi-structured in-depth interviews, this book investigates 15 high-tech engineering co-op professionals’ writing experience in the workplace. It shows how the digital age has had a marked impact on the engineers’ methods of communication at work, and how on-the -job writing has affected engineers’ technical competence, shaped their professional identities, challenged their views on Chinese and English writing, and hindered their success in the workplace. The book identifies three aspects of writing practice: engineers’ linguistic and literacy challenges, the reasons behind these challenges, and coping strategies, which suggest that engineers are underprepared and lack necessary support in the workplace. Lastly, the study shows that engineers need to engage in technical literacy through on-the-job writing so that they can fully deal with workplace discourse and socialize with diverse professional groups.Since the sample group interviewed in this book is engineers who studied at universities in the United States and have a foot in the world of school and work as well as knowledge of both Eastern and Western cultures, the book appeals to teachers, students, engineers and scientists who are interested in scientific and technological writing. It is also valuable for educators who prepare scientists, engineers, and technical communicators for professional roles, as well as for communication practitioners who work with engineers.
Doctoral Writing: Practices, Processes and Pleasures (Studies In Writing Ser. #31)
by Susan Carter Cally Guerin Claire AitchisonThis book on doctoral writing offers a refreshingly new approach to help Ph.D. students and their supervisors overcome the host of writing challenges that can make—or break—the dissertation process. The book’s unique contribution to the field of doctoral writing is its style of reflection on ongoing, lived practice; this is more readable than a simple how-to book, making it a welcome resource to support doctoral writing. The experiences and practices of research writing are explored through bite-sized vignettes, stories, and actionable ‘teachable’ accounts.Doctoral Writing: Practices, Processes and Pleasures has its origins in a highly successful academic blog with an international following. Inspired by the popularity of the blog (which had more than 14,800 followers as of October 2019) and a desire to make our six years’ worth of posts more accessible, this book has been authored, reworked, and curated by the three editors of the blog and reconceived as a conveniently structured book.
Rasch Measurement: Applications in Quantitative Educational Research
by Myint Swe KhineThis book focuses on the use of the Rasch measurement model in validation studies and in analyzing the psychometric properties of a variety of test instruments, questionnaires, and scales in international contexts. It broadly examines the development and application of Rasch modeling, providing in-depth analyses of the properties of various scales used in the fields of education, and humanities and social sciences research.The book includes exemplary works on educational research and practices that highlight recent and innovative applications, as well as theoretical and practical aspects of Rasch modeling. Readers will find it helpful to understand the latest approaches to Rasch measurement in educational research, as well as practices for future studies and quantitative research.'This book provides a diverse set of perspectives on Rasch models from scholars across the globe. The volume is both theoretical and applied. The first section of the book provides an overview of Rasch modeling and explains the theoretical and conceptual framework underlying the Rasch model. The remainder of the book highlights multiple applications of the Rasch model within educational assessment as well as several examples of how Rasch modeling can be used for validation studies. This volume showcases the wide variety of ways in which Rasch modeling can be applied to assessment data to provide insights into students’ achievement and learning and to improve instruction.'–Betsy McCoach, University of Connecticut, USA.'A well-written collection of articles. Grouped by the theoretical and applied aspects of Rasch measurement, each chapter in this edited volume makes notable contributions to knowledge and practice. Written by leading scholars in the field, these chapters were written in a clear, succinct, and assertive manner, providing readers with up-to-date information, analyses, and debates. This book should be found in the core collection of emerging researchers and established scholars in educational measurement.'–Timothy Teo, Murdoch University, Australia.
Anatomy for the Generic Surgical Sciences Examination (GSSE)
by S. Ali MirjaliliThis book is designed for Generic Surgical Sciences Examination (GSSE). This collection of questions and answers as well as short notes is intended to assist junior doctors in successfully sitting the GSSE. The questions are specifically designed to highlight key surgical anatomy, and are supplemented by images that replicate "spot-test" type questions. Illustrations are used here to highlight particular anatomical relationships that are difficult to grasp. Beyond the GSSE, this resource will be invaluable for those undertaking study for specialty-specific anatomy examinations, or the anatomy component of the fellowship examination. <P><P> This is a "prep course" specifically designed for passing the Generic Surgical Science Examination required by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS).
Pedagogies for Internationalising Research Education
by Michael Singh Jinghe HanThis book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the inter/nationalization of education. Specifically, this book draws on the intellectual resources of China and India to explore the pedagogical dynamics and dimensions of the localization/globalization of education with non-Western characteristics. It introduces theoretic-linguistic non-Western concepts from the Tamil, Sanskrit and Chinese languages for use in Western, English-only education and redefines the intellectual basis for internationalising education. Debating whether 'international education' is Western-centric in terms of its privileging and promotion of Euro-American theoretical knowledge, this book contends that the internationalisation of Western-centric education can benefit from the intellectual power and powerfully relevant theorising performed by non-Western international students. It formulates a democratic vision for the internationalisation of education, with the potential to create transnational solidarity and constitute a forum for mobilising debates about global knowledge and power structures. It also provides key tools to use non-Western theoretic-linguistic tools and modes of critique in research undertaken in Anglophone Western universities.
National College Entrance Exam in China
by Yu ZhangThis book focuses on the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE), an important measurement of education quality in China, from both education economics and education policy perspectives. It provides a better understanding and stimulates more sophisticated evaluations of NCEE-related policies in China from the perspectives of education equity, the effectiveness of education input, and education quality. This book reports inspiring findings based on high-quality individual level data, innovative measurement design, and various appropriate identification strategies. The most import conclusion is that both education equity and quality can be achieved using well-designed policies based on solid empirical evidence. This is likely the first book published in English to discuss the NCEE so extensively from multiple perspectives using concrete evidence.
Loksankhya Ani Bhartiya Samaj Paper 2 SYBA Fourth Semester - SPPU: लोकसंख्या आणि भारतीय समाज पेपर २ एस.वाय.बी.ए. सेमिस्टर ४ - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Dr Jyoti Gagangras Dr Sudhir Yevaleसावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे विद्यापीठ 'समाजशास्त्र' अभ्यासमंडळ यांनी 'समाजशास्त्र' द्वितीय वर्षे सर्वसाधारण अभ्यासक्रम नुकताच पुनर्रचित केला. याच अभ्यासक्रमावर आधारित लोकसंख्या आणि भारतीय समाज हे पुस्तक आहे. यावर्षी एस.वाय.बी.ए. चे विद्यार्थी क्रेडिट सिस्टिमला सामोरे जाणार आहेत, त्यामुळे सेमिस्टर 3 व सेमिस्टर 4 अशी लोकसंख्या आणि भारतीय समाज या अभ्यासक्रमावर आधारित दोन पुस्तके वेळेवर उपलब्ध केली आहेत. नेहमीप्रमाणेच साध्या, सुटसुटीत व आकलनास सोप्या भाषेत पुस्तकाची मांडणी केली आहे. समकालीन अनेक मुद्द्यांचा समावेश यावेळी काही प्रकरणात आहे. त्याबद्दलची पुस्तके बाजारात उपलब्ध नाहीत. त्यामुळे वृत्तपत्रे, शासकीय माहिती, काही संशोधन पत्रिका, पेपर्स याचा आधार माहितीचे स्रोत म्हणून घेतला आहे. शाब्दिक अवडंबर टाळले आहे मात्र गुणवत्तेशी कोठेही तडजोड केलेली नाही.
Prarambhik Bharat: प्रारंभिक भारत: उत्तर मौर्यकाळ ते राष्ट्रकूट काळ एफ.वाय.बी.ए. सेमिस्टर २ - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Prof. Jyoti Ganesh Rautप्रारंभिक भारत: मध्य आशियाशी संबंध आणि शुंग-सातवाहन काळ, दक्षिण भारतातील प्रारंभिक इतिहास, उत्तर भारत: गुप्त साम्राज्य आणि हर्षवर्धन, प्रादेशिक राज्य: संक्षिप्त इतिहास या चार पाठांद्वारे विद्यार्थ्याना प्राचीन भारताचा एक समृद्ध कालखंड समजू शकेल असा विश्वास आहे. हा अभ्यासक्रम नेमण्याचे विद्यापीठाचे उद्दिष्ट म्हणजे प्रारंभिक भारताचा इतिहास हा एकूणच भारतीय इतिहासाचा अतिशय महत्त्वाचा भाग आहे. कारण तो संपूर्ण भारतीय इतिहासाचे योग्य आकलन करण्यासाठी मूलाधार आहे. हा विषय विद्यार्थ्यांना प्राचीन इतिहासाचे आकलन होण्याच्या उद्देशाने तयार केलेला आहे. भारतीय सभ्यता आणि संस्कृती तसेच राजकीय घराणी यांच्या उदय आणि विकासाला कारणीभूत असणाऱ्या घटकांवर प्रकाश टाकण्याचा प्रयत्न केलेला आहे.
Manasashastrachi Payabharani FYBA First Semester - SPPU: मानसशास्त्राची पायाभरणी एफ.वाय.बी.ए. सेमिस्टर १ - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Dr Anuradha Prashant Harkareप्रथम वर्ष कला मानसशास्त्र या विषयाचा सुधारित अभ्यासक्रम 2019-20 या शैक्षणिक वर्षापासून लागू होत आहे. बदलत्या काळानुसार मानसशास्त्रासारख्या विषयातसुद्धा झपाट्याने बदल होत आहेत. या अभ्यास क्रमावर आधारित हे पाठ्यपुस्तक आहे. भारत सरकारच्या मानव संसाधन विकास मंत्रालयाच्या (Ministry of Human Resource Development-MHRD, Govt. of India) नव्या शैक्षणिक धोरणांनुसार (New Education Policy-NEP) भारतात बदल घडवायचा असेल तर शिक्षण क्षेत्रात बदल करणे हा एक प्रभावी मार्ग आहे. त्याची सुरुवात या अभ्यासक्रमात झालेली दिसते. या बदलांमुळे विद्यार्थ्यांचे व्यक्तिमत्त्व बहुआयामी आणि अधिक समृद्ध होईल याची खात्री वाटते. या वर्षीपासून एक महत्त्वाचा बदल अभ्यासक्रमात झाला आहे तो म्हणजे Choice Based Credit System-CBCS ज्यात सत्रानुसार मूल्यांकन होणार आहे.
Prarambhik Bharat: प्रारंभिक भारत: प्रागैतिहासिक काळ ते मौर्यकाळ एफ.वाय.बी.ए. सेमिस्टर १ - सावित्रीबाई फुले पुणे यूनिवर्सिटी
by Prof. Jyoti Ganesh Rautप्रथम वर्ष कला शाखेच्या सेमिस्टर-1 साठी सदर पुस्तक लिहिण्यात आले आहे. विद्यार्थ्यांसाठी या वर्षीपासून ‘प्रारंभिक भारत: प्रागैतिहासिक काळ ते मौर्यकाळ’ हा भाग अभ्यासक्रमात आणला आहे. विद्यार्थ्यांना आपला इतिहास प्रागैतिहासिक काळापासून माहीत असण्याची गरज आहे. ती गरज विद्यापीठाने अधोरेखित केली आणि या पुस्तकाद्वारे ती पूर्ण करण्याचा प्रयत्न केला आहे. प्रारंभिक भारत: साधने आणि प्रागैतिहासिक काळ, हडप्पा संस्कृती: कांस्ययुगीन सभ्यता, वैदिक संस्कृती, धार्मिक विद्रोह: जैन आणि बौद्ध धर्म, महाजन पदांचा उदय आणि मौर्यकाळ या चार पाठांद्वारे विद्यार्थ्यांना प्राचीन भारताचा एक समृद्ध कालखंड समजू शकेल असा विश्वास आहे. भारतीय सभ्यता आणि संस्कृती तसेच राजकीय घराणी यांच्या उदय आणि विकासाला कारणीभूत असणाऱ्या घटकांवर प्रकाश टाकण्याचा प्रयत्न केलेला आहे.