Browsing by Author "Gautam, Krishna Prasad"

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    Attitude of Secondary Level Mathematics Teachers Towards Action Research
    (Department of Mathematics Education, 2015) Gautam, Krishna Prasad
    The main objective of this study was to find out the attitude of secondary level mathematics teachers towards action research in teaching learning activitiesin mathematics. Itwas also aimed to find the teachers' experience on action research. This is the descriptive survey type study. So, this seems quantitative as well as qualitative. To fulfill the objectives of the study corresponding hypothesis were formulated. Questionnaire and semi structured interview wereapplied to gathered the data for this study and collected data were analyzed by the theory of Bonner assumption. A set of questionnaire with 28 statements about action research and five questions for interview were developed as the tools. The questionnaire was distributed to 40 secondary level mathematics teacher of public school in Baglung District and five teachers were interviewed.The data collected from questionnaire were analyzed by usingt-test, arithmetic mean, standarddeviation and percentage in the basis of Bonner assumption. Thet-test was applied at 5% levelof significance and 39, (N-1) degree of freedom. The interviewed data were analyzed indescriptive waybased on respondents. After the analysis and interpretation of collected data, the researcher found that there was positive attitude of secondary level mathematics teacher towards action research in teaching learning activities in mathematics. Teacher experienced action research as important tools to solve classroom problem but they conduct action research only sometimes. Mainly teachers conduct action research when the administration makes it compulsory. The teacher-training program and workshop should be organized for effectiveness of action research.
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    Errors committed by IELTS students in writing free composition
    (Department of English Educaion, 2010) Gautam, Krishna Prasad
    The present study entitledErrors Committed by IELTS Students in WritingFree Compositionis mainly concerned with identifying and describing the errors in agreement, prepositions, capitalization, cohesion and coherence in freewriting. For this study, 50 students studying in five different educational consultancies in Kathmandu district were selected using disproportionatestratified random sampling procedure, (i.e. 10 students from each consultancy,consisting of equal number of students from both the sexes got selected). A setof subjective test items, consisting of one free writing question, was the oneand only tool for data collection. The study showed that the students committed the highest number of errors in coherence and the lowest number oferrors inusing capitalization. The students committed 417 errors in total, out of which89(21.34%), 35(8.39%), 68(16.31%) and 225(53.96%) errors were committedin agreement, capitalization, cohesion and coherence, respectively. The study consists of four chapters. The first chapter deals with introduction tothe study encompassing the general background, literature review, objectives and significance of the study. The second chapter deals with the methodology.It encompasses sources of data, population of the study, sampling procedure,research tools, process of data collection, and limitations of the study.Similarly, the third chapter, which is the core part of the study, includes theanalysis and interpretation of the data. And finally, the fourth chapterincorporates the findings, recommendations and pedagogical implications ofthe study.
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    Reconstruction of History: Reading Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    (Department of English, 2007) Gautam, Krishna Prasad
    The present study focuses on one of the most dominant aspect of historical reconstruction–genealogical method of analysis as proposed by Michel Foucault – in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold.This research examines how Marquez applies this innovative literary technique of genealogical analysis in this novel. In this sense Marquez deconstructs the traditional concept of history by denaturalizing the facts of the official history. Blurring the traditional concept of historical reconstruction, Marquez moves foreword and backward in time, whiledealing witha murder that occurred twenty-seven years back. He even challenges the concept that history always presents absolute and certain events in their periodical order. To show this uncertainty he also applies magic realism that blurs hierarchy between the real and the fantasy. Though Marquez is writing this novel to reconstruct the real happening, but he also exposes how the discourses operate in society. In this matter power plays great role to mobilize these discourses. But this novel shows how power itself shifts its balance and becomes creative. As a genealogical analysis Marquez's concerns also rely on the formation of self or subject, where the tradition of counseling affects. So, Marquez doesn't believe the official version of history as the valid and authentic one. He rather views it as a discourse created by the ideology of the state or the society, which can never go beyond that ideology.