Learning styles are various approaches or ways of learning. They involve educating methods, specific to individuals that are presumed to allow an individual to learn best. Most learners have their individual methods of interacting with and processing stimuli or information. On the basis of this idea, finding out the learning styles has been emphasized by researchers in the 1970s.In this context, it can be said that in the present times the knowledge of individual learning style can become an essential tool to implement the new learning paradigms. Researchers were eager to know the learning style preferences of students to give them proper education associated to their learning preferences and make learning successful. Often the more abled learner (Gifted learner) in our country may be in danger if their learning style preferences are not understood. Thus the purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, to explore whether gifted learners have any unique learning style and secondly, to examine whether learning style preferences depends on gender of gifted learners. For fulfilling these objectives of the paper, thirty-five gifted learners of class eight were assessed using Honey and Mumford Learning Style Questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and "t" test were used to analyse the data. The result of this study indicates that gifted learners mostly preferred activist and pragmatist learning style. Whereas gifted female learners mostly preferred pragmatist style, their counterparts- the gifted male learners preferred activist learning style. Findings stated in this paper also give a clear conception about what type of learning environment and teaching method are mostly preferred by gifted learners.
Disparity in health care services of Duars and Sundarbans of West Bengal: a comparative study [PP 19-34]
Adequate health care services foster the quality of life of people in a region. Duars and Sundarban are the regions where very physical entity poses as hindrance towards introduction of developed health care services. Even though these two regions are at par with each other so far underdevelopment in health care services are concerned some differences amongst them are also noticeable. In which way one region has an edge over the other is depicted in this study keeping an eye on the overall problems of these regions.
Portrayal of women in the Indian print media [PP 35 - 42]
Media has always been an intrinsic medium of control. It acts as a social control in determining the role of genders in our Indian society at a large extent. And, our society being comprised of men, women and the third gender make an important element of study, how these genders are being portrayed and understood by the media. It is a matter of concern to see how media especially print media portrays women and their related issues. Women's issues are shown differently and are presented from a different perspective with a bit spicier ingredients to add up for the story. Women folks are always treated as an object of commodity and are being subjected in the market as products. This paper will focus on how the women are being portrayed in the print media in front of the society. The relation between women and the print media along with how the concept of feminism is taken into consideration by the print media will also be reflected in this paper.
Causes and concern for faunal habit of Pench Tiger Reserve: a [PP 43 - 49]
Indiscriminate use of forests and its wildlife over a long period of time by humans has resulted in tremendous biodiversity loss. A lot of floral and faunal species are becoming endangered due to deforestation and environmental degradation. To save the remaining forests and wildlife various conservation measures are being taken up by the Forest Department. India is regarded as one of the mega biodiversity countries for its rich fauna and flora. But the conservation measures are not properly implemented for lot of interference from its ever increasing population around the forest areas. During visit to Pench Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra, it is noticed that a lot of interference is causing stress on the floral and faunal components of the Tiger Reserve.
Down with the Paris agreement: America playing the 2020 game on climate change negotiations [PP 50 - 53]
The American Administration under President Donald Trump's leadership has perfectly personified itself being at its reluctant best regarding bargaining with the Cop24 at Katowice, Poland in December 2018. The Trump Administration had already announced on June 1, 2017 of America's exit citing the case of Nicaragua and Syria. The current developments at Katowice have further slowed the progress of the negotiations due to contentious issues inherent in the climate change negotiations for developing countries including India. The recently concluded 50th UN Bonn Climate Change Conference has also failed to deliver the desired result.