About DESSH
The Department of Education in Social Sciences & Humanities (DESSH) is one of the
four major Departments of the Regional Institute of Education, Ajmer. There are
six sanctioned posts of academic faculty in this Department i.e. Hindi (Assistant
Professor:01); English (Assistant Professor: 01 and Associate Professor:01); Urdu(Assistant
Professor:01); Geography(Assistant Professor:01) and History (Assistant Professor:01).
However, at present the Department has two professors (English: 01 and Urdu: 01)
and one Associate Professor each in Hindi and Geography respectively. The Department
is actively engaged both in Pre-service Teacher Education programmes including B.A.B.
Ed. and B.Ed. besides contributing to B.Sc.B.Ed. and M.Ed. The faculty
of DESSH undertake the In-service Teacher Education Programmes including Research,
Training, Development and Extension. In addition to it, the faculty of DESSH undertake
the works pertaining to literary activities being organised from time to time in
the Institute, Early Literacy Programmes and promoting Hindi language and inculcating
human values as enshrined in the Constitution of India. The Department has well-furnished
Geography Lab and Language Lab (in progress).
Language is not everything in education but education is nothing without language.
Hindi, English and Urdu constitute the triumvirate linguistic diversity of DESSH
for nurturing language education as an integral part of teacher education programme
for catering the educational needs of the Northern Region. Learning the language
is part of learning the concepts, as the concepts are constructed through language.
The efficacy of linguistic proficiency as the ability to correlate and comprehend
holistic vision of the concept is extremely remarkable. Language forms essential
part of academic literacy and learning language itself serves the goal of achieving
academic competence. In fact, language functions as a key to unlock the barriers
of knowledge and experience. It is a means of communication through which the child
contemplates the past, grasps the present and approaches the future.
It is significant to mention that the relation between language and literature is
very intimate. Literature is taught and learnt not for getting information only.
It also serves the purpose of enjoyment. Literature is a thing of beauty because
it has the beauty of language, beauty of form, beauty of thoughts and beauty of
emotions. Language cannot be used in a vacuum; it requires some suitable context,
and literature is the best context where language can be used. Nevertheless, teaching
language should be the aim of teaching literature because language is the key to
open the door of every subject. Language across the curriculum needs to emphasised
in order to strengthen the linguistic proficiency and communication skills amongst
all student-teachers irrespective of subjects and disciplines enabling them more
employable and suitable for the noble profession which we call teaching.
At present the subjects under Social Sciences include Geography, History, Economics
and Political Science. The main purpose of teaching and learning social sciences
is to prepare responsible citizens who play the role of watchdogs in safeguarding
the social and ethical values. The Department undertakes the activities pertaining
to working with community which is an integral part of pre-service teacher education
programmes leading to the pupil-teachers to face the challenges in real life situations.