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Pages: 197-201
Surbhi Kumar (Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi)
Anavila Lochan (Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, University of Delhi, New Delhi )

Peace psychology is still an emerging domain on the larger sphere of psychology. The present paper tries to locate peace in psychology and education as it is gaining momentum in the research paradigm given the backdrop of increased violent and terrorist activities. Peace building and peacemaking are strategies that can be learned and thus including the concept of peace in the modern day pedagogical systems can prove to be very instrumental to come up with alternatives to conflicts at both individual and societal levels. We have further tried to evaluate and make some suggestions for peace education curriculum conceptualizing it in the Indian settings through a Gandhian perspective.
Pages: 197-201 Surbhi Kumar (Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, Delhi) Anavila Lochan (Shyama Prasad Mukherji College…
Pages: 191-196
Sumangali Radhakrishnan (Department of Psychology, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Delhi)
Anavila Lochan (Department of Applied Psychology, Shyama Prasad Mukherji College University of Delhi, Delhi)

With the increasing pace of globalisation, the world is becoming smaller. It has become near impossible for human beings to live in the comfortable cocoons offered by their own communities, cultures, religions, and countries. Diversity in cultures and ethnicities often promote feelings of 'otherness' and misinterpretation of needs, values, intentions, and expectations of the other person resulting in disputes and subsequently aggrandizing feelings of hatred and contempt. Workplace settings are no exception to this. The present article reviews the concept of cultural intelligence and its implications in the organisational milieu. Right from negotiations to leadership, cultural intelligence has been found to be a critical skill, enhancing task performance and workplace adjustment in this multicultural environment.
Pages: 191-196 Sumangali Radhakrishnan (Department of Psychology, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Delhi) Anavila Lochan…
Pages: 187-190
Mun Mun Das Biswas (Department of Education, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education Government of Tripura, Tripura)
Hillol Mukherjee (Department of Psychology, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education Government of Tripura, Tripura)
Binapani Saha (Department of Economics, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education Government of Tripura, Tripura)

Quality is contextual. In the educational context, quality is seen as a complex issue as education is concerned with human being. Human Beings' overall quality is largely depended upon the quality of education provided to them. And it is the role of the teaching community to take up the responsibility to impart quality education among the students. For the prosperity and integrity of nation, quality of teacher education is then an important aspect and it cannot be ignored because teachers' teaching competencies or quality of teaching too is dependent on the quality of teacher education. In the name of development of education, for access to maximum, self-financing teacher education institutions are mushrooming now-a-days. In a small state like Tripura within a couple of years many institutions have come forward to offer Teacher Education but how far the quantitative expansion has been accompanied a qualitative increase in teacher education is actually a big question. This paper attempts to discuss the strategies for quality enhancement in teacher education that help in designing the program in order to respond to global challenges, ensure a quality outcome so as to serve students of this small state in a better manner.
Pages: 187-190 Mun Mun Das Biswas (Department of Education, Institute of Advanced Studies in Education Government…
Pages: 184-186
Bani Narula (Department of Psychology, D.A.V College, Sector 10, Chandigarh)

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of Flynn Effect and its possible explanations in today's world. An underlying quest among all of us keeps emerging that are we really more smarter than our parents and grandparents. Flynn Effect proposes that people today are getting smarter at skills that are more important in our society today, particularly abstract thinking. In the past century, our society has progressed from being agricultural to being industrial and is now information-based. As our society has progressed, people have become better at thinking in abstract, scientific terms. However, environmental changes resulting from modernization such as more intellectually demanding work, greater use of technology and smaller families have meant that a much larger proportion of people are more accustomed to manipulating abstract concepts such as hypotheses and categories than a century ago.
Pages: 184-186 Bani Narula (Department of Psychology, D.A.V College, Sector 10, Chandigarh)
Pages: 180-183
Ramesh Sandhu (Department of Education, C. R. College of Education, Hisar, Haryana)

Engaging learning environment may be considered as the support system that creates such conditions in which students learn best. It caters to the unique learning needs of every student and develops social relationship for effective learning. Engaging learning environment consists of those structures, tools and community that inspire the learners to gain knowledge, skills and positive attitude which are required in this modern era. The objectives of this paper are to search the different components of engaging learning environment. There are several components of engaging learning environment, such as physical environment that support in developing effective learning environment, sharing of best practices among the teachers that help in enrichment of knowledge and skill, project based learning, effective use of modern technologies like electronic and online learning, social learning like group, peer and team interaction, international involvement in learning, both face to face and online. Thus, it can be concluded that learning environment must take into account the context that promote interaction and enable formal and informal learning. While different components like physical and temporal structure, tools, community and policy for learning have great impact on developing engaging leaning environment, however, their cumulative impact is much more powerful. In fact, effective learning environment is developed when these components get integrated into a seamless whole in which each component reinforces each other.
Pages: 180-183 Ramesh Sandhu (Department of Education, C. R. College of Education, Hisar, Haryana)
Pages: 177-179
Isha Narang (Department of Management Studies, Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab)

The advertisements are going to be on very high heights, but some are good, some are annoying, some are simply waste, but the marketers are trying hard to be there in the market. The market condition shifting from old age to new age, production to sales, sales to new dimensions of marketing and in current era, it's going to be specific to positioning. So, this is the piece of theoretical aspect presented in the form of view point, indicating the previous condition of the marketing concept and distribution of the products, which has now transformed into positioning concept alone somehow. The aim of the view point is to provide the direction to the marketing researcher to explore the new marketing of the current era.
Pages: 177-179 Isha Narang (Department of Management Studies, Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar…
Pages: 171-176
Sumangali Radhakrishnan (Department of Psychology, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Delhi)

Motivating employees is one of the greatest issues concerning employers today. To succeed in today's globalised world, organisations require a competitive edge that can be provided only by a highly motivated workforce. Traditionally, managers have relied on the use of financial rewards to attract, motivate, and retain employees. However, in the past few years, attention has shifted to the use of non-financial rewards to engage employees and maximise organisational outcomes. This paper reviews writings that address non-financial rewards, its theoretical underpinnings and its relevance to the organisational outcomes. The review also summarises the different types of non-financial rewards under four categories, namely, learning and professional development opportunities, employee involvement programmes, rewards and recognition, and work-life balance aids. Implications for practitioners have been discussed.
Pages: 171-176 Sumangali Radhakrishnan (Department of Psychology, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Delhi)
Pages: 166-170
Swati Jain and Nimisha Kumar (Centre for Early Childhood Development & Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi)

This paper attempts to take a brief overview of historical developments in education at the global as well as national level and in that context then aims to look at Gandhi's educational and philosophical views. The relation between Ahimsa, which is the cornerstone of Gandhi's philosophy, and well-being would be considered in keeping with Gandhi's views on education. Gandhi's philosophy of education aimed at transforming individuals to be responsible citizens who would contribute to the well-being of the society and also build individual character. The Gandhian model of social reconstruction aims at enhancing the character and overall development of individuals and nurture cultural development. One can conclude that the Gandhian perspective focuses on the holistic development of the individual by focusing on education as a basic fundamental right.
Pages: 166-170 Swati Jain and Nimisha Kumar (Centre for Early Childhood Development & Research, Jamia Millia…
Pages: 158-165
Shadma Absar (National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi )

Leadership behaviour and effectiveness are influenced by how leadership is perceived by other social players, for example peers, superiors, followers or subordinates. The aim of the present study was to find perceptions of teachers about their department heads. 120 University teachers were selected randomly from a university in Delhi. Out which 40 teachers were selected each from social science, Basic Science and professional science courses. The Multi factor Leadership Questionnaire, Work Motivation and Organizational Commitment questionnaire were administered for measuring the perceived leadership style, work motivation and organizational Commitment of University teachers. The socio demographic information of participants was also collected. The results revealed that the university teachers perceived their heads' behaviour to be more oriented towards transformational leadership. The teachers of professional science courses perceive their heads as transformational leaders, in comparison to social science and basic science teachers. The perceived leadership style was found correlated significantly positively with the work motivation but not with organizational commitment. Leadership perceptions were found to influence work motivation more in comparison to organisational commitment
Pages: 158-165 Shadma Absar (National University of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi )
Pages: 154-157
M. Rajendra Nath Babu and Lungsang Zeliang (Department of Education, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Nagaland)

Education as a social institution is a boon to humankind for prosperity, progress and peace. Value oriented education gives the virtuous inner motives and actions and the inner consciousness from which more actions emerge as outer actions in human life. Education with socialistic, humanistic values in the existing society is inseparable from value oriented education. The main purpose of the study is to know the attitude of professional college students towards value oriented education with respect to locality and management. The sample for the investigation which consisted of 320 professional college students in Y.S.R. Kadapa district was selected through the stratified random sampling technique. Mean, SD, t-test were used to analyze the data. From the results it shows that locality has no significant influence and management has significant influence on the attitude of professional college students towards value oriented education.
Pages: 154-157 M. Rajendra Nath Babu and Lungsang Zeliang (Department of Education, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus…
Pages: 150-153
Shayani Sengupta and Rama Shankar Yadav (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh)

This study aims to explore the understanding of the concept of work-family conflict among teachers in the Indian academic context. Semi-structured interviews were used to investigate the meaning, antecedents and consequences of work-family conflict. Further, the roles of organizations, co-workers and government to reduce work-family conflict were also analyzed. A sample of 13 teachers from West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh was drawn. Content and thematic analyses of the responses were done. It was revealed from the interviews that the majority of the participants perceived work-family conflict as a state of misbalance between work and family domains. The major antecedents of work-family conflict include scarcity of time and mismatch of personal ambitions, expectations from others and role ambiguity. The major consequences of work-place are stress, discontentment, alienation from family and work, lack of work-life balance. The study ultimately suggests possible methods to reduce work family conflict at four level, Government level, organizational level, colleague level and self level.
Pages: 150-153 Shayani Sengupta and Rama Shankar Yadav (Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar…
Pages: 145-149
Manpreet Kaur, Navdeep Aggarwal, and Mohit Gupta (Department of School of Business Studies, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab)

This study focused combining two popular investment strategies viz., financial statement analysis and momentum strategy with focus on low book-to-market stocks. In order for the result to be practically useful all sorts of transaction costs as well as the trade restrictions were duly incorporated. Using a combination of Mohanram (2005) and Jegadeesh and Titman (1993) framework among low book-to-market stocks, it was found that financial statement analysis helped identifying such stocks among low book-to-market stocks which produce significant excess returns across holding periods of 3, 6, and 12 months. On combining this strategy with pure momentum, significant improvement in returns were seen across 3 and 6 months formation period for all holding periods of 3, 6, and 12 months. Significant Jensen's Alpha figures corroborated these results. However, for 12 months formation period, the value addition by momentum declined and became negative for 12 months holding period. This shows a combination of financial statement analysis and momentum among low book-to-market stocks can bring significant improvement in returns; the results however are restricted to short formation periods only.
Pages: 145-149 Manpreet Kaur, Navdeep Aggarwal, and Mohit Gupta (Department of School of Business Studies, Punjab…
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