Sangharsh
March 29, 2015
7:14 PM
Sangharsh
A conference at Burla
Upon invitation from the social service wing of VSSUT Burla,
we went to attend their conference called “Sangharsh- a small step for a huge
change.” It was a conference to discuss upon the current primary education
scenario in Odisha, and in India and also it served as a platform for many
organizations such as us to come to a single platform and discuss upon our work,
achievements, challenges and solutions to such problems. Apart from the Sanskar
Kendra team of VSSUT Burla itself, GIET gunupur NSS, GITAM vizag Yo Yo
Youngistan also were participants of the conference. In presence of some
educationalists and other dignitaries who have served the society in the
education field, the conference was a medium to learn from their experiences.
This post is meant to be a reference to all our members who
could not attend the conference. These are the few heads upon which the discussions
were carried out:-
1) Pedagogy
Pedagogy refers to the system of teaching.
Upon this the first session was carried out on which different dignitaries
spoke. There were two dignitaries whose views I would like to share with all.
·
Nirupama Mam’
o
She differentiated between the old system that
was based on teaching to the new system that is now based on learning.
o
In the teaching system, the teachers considered
students as plane slate upon which a teacher can write anything that they want
and would expect the students to retain the same. If from an assessment it is
understood that 80% of the kids would secure good marks, the class used to be
considered as an effective class. But there used to be no focus on the amount
of knowledge they retained in the longer run.
o
In the learning system, it is considered that –
when a kid comes to the class room, he/she is not a clean slate but a kid with
experiences. Respect should be given to those experiences. Based on the
experiences of the students of the class, the teacher should then design his
class. We should have a clear picture of what activity we would conduct among
them.
o
She quoted an example of teaching the chapter of
water to the students where instead of reading through the lines of a textbook
where the students won’t relate to anything, activities such as – “asking them
to search and list down all the water sources from their locality” would make
them involved, give them an experience from which they could learn about Water.
·
Mr. Pradhan
o
If the kid, the parents and the community is
engaged in the career building of a kid, then only there will be effective
education.
o
He focused on the effect and the role of the
community in which the kid lives, directly on the kids’ education. If the
community is understood and then according to that the kids are taught, it
would be an effective way of education.
2) Parental control and Policies of the
Govt.
Though an important part of the issue, but
none of the discussion seems worth sharing here.
Few
ideas worth sharing:-
1)
Detailed survey of our workplaces, including the
schools that our kids go to, their homes and other such facilities that they
avail would give us a clear picture of what our workplaces are lagging in terms
of basic amenities.
2)
Rotation of mentor. We come across students who
once left behind, always stays behind. For this if a single teacher teaches a
batch of kids in a particular class, he/she would know about how the kids of
the class are educated. And depending upon their pre-state, he/she would
continue to teach the same batch until the end of their term by which we can
ensure such things would be tackled.
3)
Knowing about the govt. schools that our kids go
to, would allow us to know about how effective the teaching is in there. Using
the govt. provided system is the best way we could ensure effective education
of our kids.
-Swadhin Kumar
President(2015-16)
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