CONTENTS Editor’s Note 3 Quality Improvement in Elementary Education VINEETA SIROHI 5 through Pedagogical Innovations Arithmetic Reasoning Ability of A.C. PACHAURY 18 Eleven-year -old Convent Students Implementation of School Curriculum at the S.K. YADAV 22 Upper Primary Stage in different States Nurturing Gifted and Talented VEER PAL SINGH 38 Concept, Profiles and Strategies Educational Research, Policy and Practice in Y. SREEKANTH 53 an Era of ‘Globalisation’ A Conference Report A Study of Multimedia Usage by S. GAYATHRI 63 Mathematics Teachers Educational Attainment of Punjabi Women AAKANKSHA AGARWAL 78 Its Impact on their Social Status and Autonomy Do the Social Studies Textbooks of Pakistan, GOURI SRIVASTAVA 85 Bangladesh and Nepal Weave the SAARC Spirit? Nutritional Support to Primary Education in India R.D. SAMPATH KUMAR 94 A Study of Mid-day Meal Scheme and E. LILLY RANI Achievement Motivation among Secondary BIDYADHAR SA 108 School Tribal and Non-tribal Students A Study of Existing Facilities of Science Teaching in T.B. SINGH 117 the High Schools of Chhimtuipui District, Mizoram Heritage Crafts and Education 125 An Interview with MS. LAILA TYABJI Book Reviews 131 – The Routledge Falmer Reader in Philosophy of Education edited by Wilfred Carr. – Child Labour in Informal Sector: A Sociological Study by Suresh Chander JOURNAL OF INDIAN EDUCATION Volume XXXII Number 1 November 2006