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Updated: July 20, 2023
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Our History:The Department of Human Development and Family Studies came into existence in the year 1991 with the establishment of the College of Community Science. This department contributes to the well-being of individuals and families across the life course and in diverse contexts by generating knowledge; by preparing specialists for research, teaching, and extension activities; and by strengthening the interconnections of research, practice, and policy. We are dedicated to enhance the quality of rural and general masses which concerns with the developmental and psychological aspects of entire human life span. Major focus of our efforts is the quality enhancement of our programs as they concerns to our future challenges and goals. The department is widely regarded as a leader in the study of children and families. This department imparts comprehensive program at the Bachelor and Master levels, emphasizing on professional teaching through audio visual techniques. The department is widely regarded as a leader in the study of children and families. Faculty conduct significant research on a range of critical issues facing individuals and families in today's society. And, the department employs innovative outreach efforts that extend knowledge to policymakers, professionals, and to the community.
Our Strengths
Lab Nursery School: The department has well equipped Laboratory Nursery School in the department for the children in the age group of 2 years ±6 months to 4 years. The school is being run since 1988 and serves as a model to rural Anganwadis and private schools running in the surrounding areas. The teacher student ratio is 1:15 with one helper. A total of 737 students have passed from Lab Nursery School till date.
ECE Material Development Lab:
This lab is established to upgrade the work done in the Elective Courses. The materials developed are ingenuous, low budget with scientific orientation. The materials developed are tested in our Lab Nursery school and rural pre-schools/anganwadis of ICDS programme for practical purposes. Psychological testing Lab: Department has its own Psychological Testing Laboratory that provides students with an opportunity to administer the tests /scales and draw the inferences. The laboratory also acts as resource material as it includes various psychological tests, PG thesis and teaching aids. The scale/tools are used for conducting researchers and studies on children. It includes scales related to child’s socio-emotional development, well-being, mental health, self-esteem, language development, home environment inventories, Scales related to marital and family relationships, psychological well-being of aged, various intelligence scales etc. are there in the laboratory
Anganwadi Training Centre The Anganwadi Training centre was sanctioned by the Government of India to train Anganwadi workers from different parts of the State of Himachal Pradesh. The Anganwadi Training centre is being run in the department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, CSKHPKV, Palampur since November 2011. Till now 1711 AWW has been given Job trainings and 3189 AWW have attended Refresher courses and 401 helpers attended Job trainings. A total of 5301 Anganwadi workers have been trained till date.
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