Workshops to enhance faculty’s teaching skills conclude at CUP

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, June 7

The MHRD-sponsored two multidisciplinary national workshops on the sociology and political science disciplines, which were organised by the Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) at the Central University of Punjab, successfully concluded here on Friday. Both workshops commenced on May 27 and were organised under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching.

Their themes were “Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences” and “Understanding Indian Politics & Economy in 21st Century”. Its objective was to enhance the teaching potential of young faculty members. The special guest of valedictory session was Prof Vivek Kumar, who is a professor at JNU in New Delhi and visiting associate professor at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University. Around 88 faculty members from different institutions representing various states participated and acquired in-depth knowledge of different disciplines.

During the concluding session, Dr Vinod Arya, coordinator, TLC, presented the programme report. He mentioned that nearly 65 sessions were held during both the workshops. The resource persons of these sessions were eminent personalities from academic and research fields. Prof P Ramarao, Dean, Academic Affairs, appreciated the efforts of the organising team and said the workshop would surely act as a tool of empowerment for participants in improving their research and teaching skills.

In his keynote address, Prof Vivek Kumar said social sciences helped us understand human beings better.

He talked about the impact of Newtonian Physics Model and Einstein Physics Model model on Quantitative Research Methods of Social Science and mentioned that positivism, empiricism and deductive analyses were their outcomes.

He shared his concern that most of the researchers used quantitative methods of social science for verification of data only. He recommended them for the adoption of the falsification approach to build a new theory and processes.

On behalf of the organising team, Dr Bawa Singh thanked the distinguished guests and participants for making this programme a success.