AN INVESTIGATION INTO AN AWARENESS OF ART AND CRAFT AMONG B.ED. TRAINEES

An Awareness is a conceptual understanding based upon an applicable knowledge of global and cultural perspectives. The understanding of concepts that impact the world encompasses, but is not limited to, environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic relations. An awareness involves a recognition and appreciation of the size, complexity, and diversity of the earth conceived as a single entity. Most of the arts and crafts are unique and confined to India only. Even if similar arts and crafts exist in other countries also they are not quite similar by appearance or technique of manufacturing. Even in India also regional variations differ for the same art. For instance, the art of sculpturing on stone is found everywhere all over the world, but the sculpture sculpted at Rome looks quite different from that of the Indian one. The objectives of the study were to find the difference between the mean scores an awareness of art and craft among B.Ed. trainees in their awareness on the basis of gender, habitation, marital status, degree, medium and board. The investigator used survey method. The sample constituted of 200 B.Ed. trainees in Jharkhand state. The self constructed and validated questionnaire for an awareness of art and craft among B.Ed. trainees was used and the data was analyzed by arithmetic mean, standard deviation and t- test. The findings of the study show that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of B.Ed. trainees in their awareness of arts and crafts on the basis of their medium of studies.