Research 

Major & Minor Project

Ongoing Major Research Projects of the Institution:

1.  Assessment, Identification and Remedial Education for Children with Learning Problems in
the primary Schools of Kottayam

Funding agency Fund Allotted Duration(years)  Teacher Coordinator and Project Fellow  Collaboration, if any
 UGC Rs.5,38,000
 2007-2010 Dr.Sr.Alice Mathew
M/s.Usha Kumari C
 Association for Learning Disabilities, India

2.  Assessment, Identification and Remediation for children with Learning Disabilities in the State of Kerala.

Funding agency Fund Allotted Duration (years) Teacher Coordinator and Project Fellows Collaboration,  if any
CSST Educational Agency and Mt. Carmel College of Teacher Education  Rs.5,00,000 2005-2010 Dr.Sr.AliceMathew
M/sMareena Sebastian M/s Susheela Jose
Association for Learning Disabilities, India

Ongoing Minor Research Projects of the Institution:

1. Developing peace consciousness through co-operative learning strategies among secondary level teacher trainees of Kottayam district in Kerala

Funding agency Fund Allotted Duration
(years)
Principal Investigator
UGC    Rs.80,000      2009-2010 Dr.Sr.Philomina Thomas

2. Identification of the misconceptions and the effect of remediation strategies for its eradication in Physical Science among VIII standard students of Kottayam.

Funding agency

Fund  Allotted

Duration (years)

Principal Investigator

     UGC

 Rs.75,000

  2009-2010

Dr.Susamma George P.

Ph.D.

List of faculty members who have been awarded Ph.D

Sl.No Name of the faculty Year University Thrust Area/Title
1. Sr.Alice Mathew 2001 Mahatma Gandhi University,
Kottayam
 Effectiveness of Self Instructional Materials and modern Instructional Strategies in inimizing Learning Disabilities of Adolescents
2. Mrs.Pushpa Marian 2006 Mahatma Gandhi University ,
Kottayam
Study of Group Differences in Computational Skills of Secondary School Students.
3. Sr.Philomina Thomas 2007 Mother Teresa Women's University, Kodaikanal The elements of Holistic Approach in the System of Education Introduced by Baker Missionaries in Kottayam -
4. Mrs.Susamma George P 2007 Mahatma Gandhi University,
Kottayam
Use of Modern Instructional Strategies: Awareness and Achievement of Student Teachers at the Primary Level.        
5.   Dr.Lissy Koshi 1997 Pandit Ravishankar Shukla Univeristy,
Raipur
Cognitive development of Higher Secondary School Students with reference to Chemistry.

Faculty Members who are engaged in the Research

Sl.No

Name of the faculty

University

Thrust Area

1

Mrs.Mary Sheba Jose

Kerala University

A study of Literary Creativity in Relation to Certain Demographic and Cognitive Variables among Degree Students.

2

Mrs.Soosamma P.A

Kerala University

The Impact of Continuing Education on the Empowerment of Women

3.

Mrs.Suma Joseph

M.G.University

Construction of a Test Battery to Assess the Basket Ball Playing Ability of Women Players.

 

Extension Services

Mount Carmel College of teacher education for women envisions inculcating life-oriented education, which would empower the trainees with the needed skills to become agents of social transformation at different levels of life.  The aims of education are steered towards optimum growth in the physical and intellectual dimensions of the individual's personality.  Hence it has become highly essential to correlate education with the life and needs of people. 

In our Institutions several activities are organized which are socially useful and productive.  These include:-

  • Learning of a craft- The curriculum introduces various innovative craft oriented programmes like flower making, book binding candle making, fabric screen printing, stitching, embroidery and culinary arts.
  • Sale and Exhibition of SUPW Articles:-  The sale and exhibition of SUPW articles yield an worthy amount which is utilized for a noble cause ie., empowerment of women, helping the marginalized and supporting the adopted literacy mission centers.
  • Adoption of ann Adult Literacy Mission Centre:   Our college has adopted newly adult literacy centre at Kachuvellikunnu, Kottayam.  The fund raised by students through the SUPW exhibition cum sale is utilized for supplying newspapers periodicals, childrens magazines and sewing machines at this centre.  Our students are equivalency classes for Std.X on every Sundays at the centre.
  • Awareness Classes in Socially Disadvantaged Areas- The college supplies human and material resources for transacting awareness and equivalency classes.  For fortifying its objectives, the awareness classes regarding environmental, social, educational and women issues are conducted.
  • Installation of a coffee machine:- The Institution has installed a coffee machine in the campus, which serves to provide employment to the marginalized girls in our community.
  • Distribution of sewing machine:- Attempts have been made to empower women by supplying sewing machines to individuals and Literacy Mission centers.
  • Education Related Activities:- The Institution has been instrumental in supplying Newspapers, periodicals, Children's magazines to the adopted Literacy Mission centers.  The members of the centers have been weaned towards computer literacy classes.
  • Health Related Activities:- The Institution has initiated health check ups and camps, AIDS awareness programmes and talks on adolescent problems and health life style and have occasionally supplied rice to the marginalized of the society.
  • Visits to Institutions:- The money accrued from the sale and exhibition of SUPW activities is utilized for supporting the neglected and unwanted in the society.  Visits to old age homes, juvenile delinquent homes and homes for the mentally challenged is carried out in this context.
  • Equivalency classes:- The students of various departments of our college are taking equivalency classes for Std.X on every Sundays at the adopted literacy mission center. 
  • Carmel Tailoring Training Center:- The fund raised through exhibition cum sale of SUPW articles was utilized for establishing a Tailoring Center in our college for providing free training for women beneficiaries of our locality.
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