N Praveenkumar

Introduction             Self-injurious behavior among adolescents has to be considered as a serious threat to the personality development during adolescence. Self-injurious behavior has been defined as an act of attempting to alter a mood or emotional state by inflicting physical harm serious enough to cause tissue damage to one’s body without leading to a result of death. The forms of self-injury vary and can include scratching, cutting, self-hitting and burning.             Self-injurious behavior of adolescents was first reported in the Western countries especially in USA. But now this trend has been seen in India too, especially in the urban areas. School counselors often become aware of self-injurious behavior before parents, family members and persons outside the school setting. This is mainly because self-injurious behaviour becomes more visible in the school s...

Inauguration : Dr M.K Abdul Khader, Vice Chancellor, Kannur University

Introduction             Human Rights Education is the need of the hour. The major objective behind this is the moldings of personality among the learners by sensitize them the various issues related to human rights violations. Human Rights Education is meant to be given to school and college students so that they become sensitive and aware of the human rights violations. All of us have an equal right to think, to express ourselves, to earn a livelihood in any law abiding manner to live in a self respecting manner and no individual is entitled to snatch these rights from anyone else. The Protection of Human Rights Act 1993 rightly emphasized the need for human rights literacy among various sections of the society and promotes awareness of the safe guards available for the protection of these rights.             Human Rights Education is neither confined to some topics to b...

Introduction             Recently a lot of discussions have been conducted on the significance of stress management in the learning process. Classroom is the main platform for learning. Hence foremost importance should be given to stress management in the classroom. In a language especially, a foreign language classroom stress management is very essential because learning a foreign language involves the process of understanding, analyzing and distinguishing the language structures and usages.  Complex activities related to the language elements are needed in a foreign language classroom. This may create a lot of stress problems in the classroom. A language rich environment is essential for preventing stress problems. A language rich environment consists of the following things. Ø   The classroom environment must be relaxed and secure Ø   Create a democratic environment for the learners Ø   Infrastructu...

Higher Education becomes a major concern in India since independence. Enormous steps have been taken to revitalize the higher education system. But still it confronts with several challenges. Among them enrolment ratio is one of the major challenges. Even though several programmes and policies have been launched, the present Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education, in relation to population in 18-23 years age group, is about 12.4 percentages. With an aim to increase the intake capacity in the existing and emerging higher education institutions, Government of India proposed a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme to set up a Model Degree College in each of the 374 Educationally Backward districts in India, identified by a committee headed by Prof. S.P Thyagarajan, former Vice Chancellor, University of Madras. But this scheme is not yet implemented due to the further changes proposed in the 12 th Five Year Plan.             Conc...