HANDS ON ACTIVITIES: ROLE OF METHODS OF TEACHING AS MEANS OF INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION

Teaching and learning are a system of whole with the various parts including objectives, outcomes, methods of teaching and curriculum. This does not concern with just an individual but with a system, society, nation and sometimes even the whole of the universe. Each find its space in other whereas the other constitutes each unit in itself. In order to meet the general as well as specific aims of education we are suppose to be interdisciplinary as well as multidisciplinary in practice. The hands-onactivities-based method of teaching play the crucial role in achieving moretowards all sorts of goal and objectives at one time. It ensures the head, heart and hand engagement referring to cognitive, affective and psychomotor domain respectively. It prepares the child for the upcoming life and meet his vocational and professional aim. Hands on activities play a huge role in pedagogical, andragogical and heutagogical aspects of education. The hands-on based approach is a complete means to empower the interdisciplinary face of teaching as an art as well as science.