Resources
Explore this section to look at the rich repository of resources compiled and generated in-house by RRCEE. It includes curriculum materials, research articles, translations, and policy documents, including commission reports, resources for teachers, select articles from journals and e-books. These all are collated under in user friendly categories, with inter-sectional tags. These resources are both in Hindi and English and cover a wide range of topics.
जनवरी की कुछ यादें- II
ककोडा कला महेश, बसेरिया + तुम भी बनाओ, मथुरा
Integrating gender concerns
The decade of the 1990s has shown significant gains in schooling among girls in India. The percentage of girls attending school in the 6-10 year age group in rural areas increased from 55% in 1992-93 to 75% in 1998-99 (NFHS, 2000). Nevertheless, a large number of girls are still out of school and hence access to primary education continues to be a matter of urgency, particularly among girls from economically marginalized and socially vulnerable groups. What is of equal concern but has received little policy or research attention is the quality of the educational experience in schools.
Unpacking the ‘quality’ of schools
What lies ‘Beyond Access’? Why is it that increasingly we allude to access as the basic issue, while the ‘quality’ of education is relegated to the so-called second level of problems or priorities? What is implied by the term quality of education, especially when it is perceived either chronologically or even financially as something that can be tackled once the primary problem of getting children to school has been resolved?
Reaching for quality in the countryside
Over a period of twenty years, Rishi Valley Education Centre has created a multi-grade multi-level programme for elementary education known as ‘The School in a Box’. The nomenclature is meant to reflect both the programme’s compactness and its portability: like a medium sized suitcase it can be carried around by a single teacher. The Box, has in fact, been transported to many regions in India.
The learning guarantee programme
It is late night on Saturday, 14 February, and I have just returned after a week in Bellary and Gulbarga. My mind is full of vivid images of unsung heroes and untold stories from some of north-east Karnataka’s most inspirational schools; the pride and joy on the faces of the teachers as 40 outstanding schools that met the criteria defined by the Learning Guarantee Programme are feted and honoured by Azim Premji and Karnataka’s Education Minister, Chandrasekhar, at the learning guarantee award function.
A people’s preschool
Stepping out of its cozy family environment to establish the first contact with the outside world is an event of seminal importance in the childs’ life. This is the time when the most permanent and lasting images are carved in her impressionable mind. The experiences that children have during the first few years form the basis of all future interaction and lay the roots for future social, language and intellectual development.