title: Student apathy for classroom learning and need of repositioning in present andragogy in Indian dental schools.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In the world of technology, when today's student is approaching the on-line /distance learning in the open universities and doing on-line self-assessment, the classroom learning is vanishing slowly. Globally, teachers are taking efforts to improve the pedagogy by implementing effective methods to retain the classroom teaching and student attendance. The present study aims at shedding some light on the need of changing the adult education strategies (andragogy), which can effectively improve the student attendance for lectures.
  
  
  METHODS
  It is an observational study, and the conceptual framework of it is based on beliefs, opinions and personal experiences of the respondents. Triangulation method is used for collecting the data. The data is achieved from three groups of concerned population who could provide valid results to support the study. It is collected by interviewing 10 senior faculty members who are/were the 'education experts' in the universities, while the main concerned groups of present educational stream, i.e. 'institution-teachers' and the 'students', were given questionnaires. 570 teacher respondents and 200 student respondents are the main participants of this study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  As per data, it has been observed that senior faculty (90%) and students (93.25%) feel need of student motivation more than the institutional teachers (52.44%). P-values were obtained using Chi-Square test for testing the significance of difference between agreement and disagreement for a specific question.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In India, Universities have already sensed the need of 'teacher development programmes'. But teachers in dental colleges, demand more efforts to be taken by universities and managements in this regard and expect better educational policies to give them accessibility to prove themselves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, SMBT Dental College and Hospital and Research Institute, Ghulewadi (Amrutnagar) PO, Ahmednagar 422608, Maharashtra, India. rajnidable@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Rajani A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Dable
authors.forename: Babita R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Pawar
authors.forename: Jaykumar R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Gade
authors.forename: Prasanth M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Anandan
authors.forename: Girish S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Nazirkar
authors.forename: Jyoti T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Karani
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000328:Adult; D057565:Apathy; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003469:Culture; D003479:Curriculum; D003906:Developing Countries; D004493:Education; D004497:Education, Dental; D005179:Faculty, Dental; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017145:Models, Educational; D009042:Motivation; D013335:Students, Dental / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching; D055815:Young Adult