{"id":2817,"date":"2019-02-28T12:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T06:46:10","slug":"indias-law-and-policy-need-womens-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/indias-law-and-policy-need-womens-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s law and policy need women&#8217;s perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Relevant for Sociology, Essay &amp; General Studies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UPSC-CSE 2019-20 FOUNDATION &amp; TEST BATCHES WILL START JUNE 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> \u201cWe don\u2019t use textbooks,\u201d Rinku Dutta, principal of Udaan, a primary school in Himachal Pradesh\u2019s Palampur, told me when I visited the institution a few months ago during a reporting trip. <\/li><li> \u201cIt is designed as an experiential learning space, where teachers work as facilitators to enable and support a child in her learning journey, rather than trying to teach her,\u201d added Datta, while she gave me a tour of the school\u2019s minimalist mud structure and its beautiful eco-friendly campus. The no-textbook method of teaching and an experiential learning space may sound revolutionary, but many educationists believe that it\u2019s high time that India starts thinking afresh about the country\u2019s education system (especially the State-supported one) and its quality because the existing system is failing to improve learning level of students. <\/li><li> The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), which takes stock of the learning levels of primary school children in India\u2019s State-run schools, reveals the depth of India\u2019s learning crisis. The 2018 report shows that students, especially those in elementary school (Classes 1-8), are not learning enough. To cite one metric, only half (50.3%) of all students in Class 5 can read texts meant for Class 2 students. \u201cLearning deficits seen in elementary school in previous years seem to carry forward as young people go from being adolescents to young adults,\u201d the report said. <\/li><li> The reasons behind such a disastrous report card, year after year, are not too hard to pinpoint. The lack of quality textbooks (not all states\/schools use National Council of Educational Research and Training \u2014 NCERT \u2014 textbooks), and delays in reaching them to students, especially in the far-flung areas; the politicisation of syllabi; the lack of basic infrastructure in schools; and, untrained and overworked teachers, to name a few. <\/li><li> In addition to these problems, there is also an increasing acceptance that our State-run schools, where scores of first-generation learners go, carrying the hope of their parents that education will give them a better life in the future, have become delinked from the local community they serve, and that the textbooks they use don\u2019t really reflect the local culture and social environment of the children, making it difficult for these young learners to relate to them. These shortcomings, educationists feel, affect the learning capabilities of students. <\/li><li> Speaking at a recent education conference, Difficult Dialogues, NCERT professor, Srinivas Vadivel, said that such shortcomings can be probably tackled by developing curriculum material in local languages. An ideal situation would be for the NCERT to make guideline textbooks, which local teachers can then adapt and supplement to make them more suitable for the children they are teaching. Others at the conference pointed out that to make learning \u201cjoyful\u201d, teachers must move beyond textbooks to use innovative teaching resources, educative toys and interesting do-it-yourself projects. If these sweeping changes are to actually happen, then the relationship between schools and students needs to be reviewed as well. Instead of forcing children to adhere to a school\u2019s inflexible curriculum and pedagogy, the institutions must strive to be children-ready. This means that teachers must be sensitised to the sociocultural background of the students to ensure better learning. Such steps could make India\u2019s State schools inclusive and positive spaces for quality learning. <\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant for Sociology, Essay &amp; General Studies UPSC-CSE 2019-20 FOUNDATION &amp; TEST BATCHES WILL START JUNE 2019 \u201cWe don\u2019t use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,844],"tags":[535,817],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","category-gs","tag-essay","tag-gs"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}