Course-5 Understanding Disciplines and School Subjects pmd

Check Your Progress – 2
Below are given a few incomplete sentences. Complete them using appropriate
answers.
1.
In ancient India, schools were in the form of ____________________
2.
Nalanda university, was offering subjects like ____________________,
___________, ___________,___________,and ___________
3.
Experts reveal that the existing pattern of subjects in majority of our schools
today is the result of the ___________
4.
The schools which marked the beginning of modern schooling in India were
started by ___________
1.4.4. Let Us Summarize
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Knowledge is the starting point in the process of the evolution of discipline.
This organized body of knowledge of a particular field was termed as ‘discipline.
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’When knowledge gets into the realm of academic discipline, its focus and
scope get narrowed. Bringing knowledge under a discipline means, defining
the boundaries of knowledge of different nature.
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There are number of good reasons to classify knowledge under different
disciplines.
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The evolutionary process of disciplines might have gone through the following
phases: Knowledge accumulation, Specialization and fragmentation of
Knowledge, Formation of Disciplines, Diversification and further specialization
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of knowledge within the discipline, Breaking of disciplinary boundaries and
emergence of more specialised new disciplines, Formation of New Disciplines
, breaking of disciplinary boundaries and emergence of more specialized new
disciplines.
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Emergence of disciplines has a long history. In India, disciplines have developed
since ancient times.
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School subjects have developed in India as a result of socio political influences.