SYLLABUS FOR THE
POST GRADUATE TEACHER IN GROUP-B,
FOR 50 NOS. OF GOVERNMENT HIGHER SECONDARY
SCHOOLS AND 106 NOS. OF UPGRADED HIGHER
SECONDARY SCHOOLS
General English
50 marks
The question paper in General English will be of +2 Level
General Knowledge
50 marks
The paper in General Knowledge will include knowledge of
current events and matters as of everyday observation and
experience in the scientific aspects of life as may be expected of
an educated person. The paper will also include questions on
History of India and Geography of such standard which the
candidates should be able to answer without special study.
Political Science
PAPER-I
Unit - I : Political Theory:
Nature of Political Theory, Evolution and Growth, Behaviouralism, Decline
and Resurgence, Contemporary Trends.
State: Its Origin, Functions and Role.
Law, Liberty, Equality, Justice and Rights.
Political Ideology : Liberalism, Socialism, Communism and Feminism.
Democracy : Perspective and Prospects.
Unit-II : Political Thought:
Plato: Ideal State, Justice, Communism.
Aristotle: State and Revolution.
Machiavelli : State, Religion and Morality.
Social Contractualists : Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau.
Karl Marx: Dialectical Materialism, Class Struggle, Surplus Value.
John Rawls & Robert Nozick.
Unit-III:Public Administration :
Nature, Scope and Significance of Public Administration and New Public
Administration.
Theories and Principles of Organisation.
Personnel Administration : Recruitment, Training, Promotion, Morale,
Employer-Employee Relations.
Public Policy : Policy Formulation and Implementation.
Relationship between Permanent and Political Executive.
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Unit-IV : Political Sociology:
Nature and Scope.
Structural Functional Analysis, Systems Analysis.
Authority &Legitimacy.
Social Stratification: Bases of Stratification; Caste, Class and Status.
Political Culture, Political Socialisation, Political Modernisation and Political
Participation.
Unit-V: International Relations :
Approaches to the Study of International Politics: Idealism and Realism,
System Theory, Decision- Making and Game Theory.
National Power, Balance of Power and Collective Security, Disarmament,
Human Rights, International Terrorism, Gender in I.R.
Non-Alignment: Evolution, Achievements and Contemporary Relevance.
India's Role in World Affairs.
India's Foreign Policy: Determinants, Continuity and Change.
PAPER-II
Unit-I:Indian Government and Politics :
Ideological Bases of the Indian Constitution, Preamble, Fundamental Rights
and Directive Principles of State Policy.
Structure and Process : President, Prime Minister, Parliament and the
Working of the Parliamentary System.
Theory and Practice of Federalism in India.
Supreme Court, Judicial Review and Judicial Activism.
Political Parties and Pressure Groups.
Issues and Trends : Regionalism, Secularism, Caste & Politics.
Elections and Electoral Reforms.
Unit-II: Comparative Government and Politics:
Comparative Politics: Nature and Scope.
Issues in Comparative Politics: Parliamentary and Presidential,
Unitary & Federal.
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Constitutionalism: Meaning and Challenges.
British Political System: Conventions and Rule of Law.
Parliamentary Government: Crown, Parliament and Cabinet.
U.S. Political System: Separation of Powers, Checks and Balance.
President, Congress-Senate and House of Representatives, Supreme Court
and Judicial Review.
Swiss Political System : Direct Democracy, Federal Council, Federal Assembly
and Federal Tribunal.
Chinese Political System : Democratic Centralism, National People's
Congress, President of People's Republic of China, State Council.
Party System in the UK., US.A. and China.
Unit-III: State and Local Government in Odisha :
Emergence of Odisha as a Separate State.
Government and Politics in Odisha from 1936 to 1950.
Government and Politics since 1950.
Governo, Council of Ministers, State Legislative Assembly, High Court and
Subordinate Courts.
Politics of Defection and Coalition in Odisha.
Elections and Voting Behaviour in Odisha since 1952.
Rural Local Government and Urban Local Government in Odisha.
Unit-IV : Indian Political Tradition:
Indian Political Tradition: Foundation & Features.
Kautilya :Arthasastra, Theory of Government and Statecraft.
Raja Rammohun Roy: The Indian Renaissance and Nationalism.
Swami Vivekananda : Nationalism, Internationalism and Enlightened
Humanism.
G.K. Gokhale : Idealism and Swadeshi.
B.G. Tilak:Swaraj & Education.
Aurobindo : Political Techniques, Spiritual Nationalism and Universalism.
Gandhi : Satyagraha, Trusteeship and Sarvodaya.
B.R. Ambedkar: Equity and Social Justice.
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Unit-V: Development Administration in India:
Development Administration: Meaning, Scope and Significance.
Evolution of Development Administration in India.
Planning: Machinery, Process and Limitations.
Development Goals: Self-reliance, Industrialisation, Modernisation, Social
Justice, Poverty Alleviation.
Planning Commission, National Development Council.
State Planning Board.
District Planning Machinery.
Bureaucracy and Development Administration in India.
Development Administration: Problems &Prospects.
Good Governance.
Psychology
PAPER-I
Advances General psychology
UNIT-I
Current definition of psychology - Different approaches : Biological, Behavioural,
cognitive, Humanistic, Socio-cultural, Modern perspective in psychology.
The Biological Bases of Human Behaviour:
a) Central Nervous System - (Central processing unit) Brain & Spinal
cord.
b) Peripheral nervous system: somatic nervous system & A.N.S.
Chemical connection: the endocrine glands.
UNIT-II
Principles of Learning:
Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning and its application, Cognitive learning
Tolman's sign learning theory, Kohler's Insightful learning and Bandura's
observational learning and applications.
Human Memory : Two influential models, Kinds of Information stored in Memory,
Forgetting - Theories of forgetting, Memory and the Brain - Amnesia and other
memory disorder.
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