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Challenges in School Education
Gurgaon Progressive Schools Council and
CBSE Sahodaya School Complexes ( Gurgaon )
Presentation byVishal Jain
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Advisor – Shanti Niketan Vidyapeeth
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Structure of Indian Education System• Pre-primary Education- LKG and
UKG• Primary Education- class 1 to
class 5 (age 6-11)• Secondary Education- class 6-
class10 (age 11-15)• Higher Secondary Education-
class 11to class 12 (age 15-17)• Graduation- Professional 4 years,
medical 5 years,arts and commerce 3 years.
• Post graduation- 1.5 to 3 years.
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Current scenario in India
GOI aimed to achieve Universal Elementary Education by 2010
Several challenges in achieving this goal:•Out of approx. 200 million children in the age group 6-14 yrs, only 177 million were enrolled; percentage of out of school children works out to be 11.5%.(source: National Sample Survey (2004-05)•About 39% of primary and 54% of upper primary students drop-out of school. (source: DISE 2005-06)
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Challenges contd...
•Wide disparities in the educational status of different regions.•Quality of education is poor in many schools because of high pupil-teacher ratio. (national average is 46:1 with some states high as 68)•Out of school children mainly from marginalized groups-girls,working children, economically disadvantaged children, children with special needs,and children with multiple disadvantages.
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Challenges contd...
•Dearth of qualified and trained teachers. (A study conducted by NUEPA found that about 47 lakh elementary teachers in India have not studied beyond the higher secondary level)•A large digital divide exists,and is growing,between students in affluent private schools and other students.
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School Availability
– 8.8 lakhs elementary schools
– 3 to 4 lakhs upper primary schools
– 1.46 lakhs secondary and senior secondary schools
Though there is an increase in the
number of schools in the recent years, but still this number is not adequate to accommodate the out-of-school children and the growing number of students who transit from one level to another.
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Some Facts…
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Challenge of Access-1: No. of Secondary Schools ( Classes IX-X) per 100
Sq. Km. States having schools less than all India
average3 3
2 2 2
1
0.5
0
1
2
3All India
Gujarat
H.P.
Rjasthan
U.P
M.P
J & K
ALL GUJ HP RJ UP MP JK
Source: Based on Selected Educational Statistics- 2004-05
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Challenge of Access-2: No. of Secondary Schools ( Classes IX-X) per
100 Sq. Km. States having schools more than all India
average
34
5 5 5 5 5 56
8 8
0
2
4
6
8All IndiaT.NA.PKarnatakaMaharashtraOrissaPunjabW.B.AssamHaryanaKerala
ALL TN AP KN MH OR PJ WB AS HR KL
Source: Based on Selected Educational Statistics -2004-05
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10
9389
8685
81 80 79 79
70 70
61 61
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100Cuba
Sout Africa
Sri Lanka
Egypt
Thailand
Hongkong
Mexico
Vietnam
China
Malaysia
Indonesia
Asia
Challenge Of Participation-1:Gross Enrollment Ratio (Cross Country Comparison)
CU SA SL EG TH HG MX VT CH ML IND Asia
SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, October, 2005
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States having GER less than all India average
Challenge Of Participation-2:Gross Enrollment Ratio
5249 49
46 44 44 43 41
27 2622
0
10
20
30
40
50
60 All IndiaAssam
U.P.M.P.ChhattisgarhRajasthan
J & KW.B.NagalandJharkhand
Bihar
ALL AS UP MP CH RJ JK WB NL JH BH
Source : Selected Educational Statistics 2004-05
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States having GER more than all India average
Challenge Of Participation-3:Gross Enrolment Ratio (Classes IX-X)
525353535455575969
767780
93
0
20
40
60
80
100 All IndiaA.P.ArunachalHarynanaOrissaGujaratTripuraKarnatakaMaharashtraGoa UttrakhandT.N.Kerala
ALL AP AR HR OR GJ TR KN MH GA UT TN KL
Source : Selected Educational Statistics 2004-05
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Disparity in gross enrolment ratio (IX-X)
Challenge Of Participation-4:
52
45
37
5752
43 45
38
30
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Overall Boys Girls
All SC ST
Source: Selected Educational Statistics – 2004-05
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Few Questions to Answer….
GOI aimed for UEE by 2012BUT…
• Do we have enough schools to accommodate all children?•Do we have enough teachers and whether the teachers available are well trained and qualified?•Do we have quality provisions for schools or only quantity is a concern?•Do we have measures for assuring retention in schools or just enrolment will work? www.schoolofeducators.com
Other Challenges In School Education…
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Dualist character • It operates with a strong class
bias.• There is a wide disparity in
quality.• More than 75% students attend
poor even rock-bottom quality.• On one hand there
are students from affluent private schools and on other students from poor-quality schools.
Need of Common School System
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Tremendous Academic Pressure
• On both teachers and students
• Our school councils and universities produce curriculum as bundles of goods or packages of values.
• It has been the practice of the educationists to burden the students with heavy load of study materials. The workload is still heavier in professional courses.
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The Authoritarian System
• The authoritarian system,the rigid and undemocratic structure in many of our schools, still continues without much change.
• People who are active participants namely teachers and students do not have a proper say.
• The students do not get opportunity of decision making for the services they use.
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Traditional "banking" method of education
The traditional "banking" method
of education, that sees pupils as adaptable, manageable beings, still continues in many schools. Concentrating on accumulating deposits of knowledge, students do not develop the critical consciousness that would lead them to involve with the social process and change it. It kills their critical power and creativity.
Spoon feeding must be ended soon in classrooms.
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Making Schools Inclusive
• We are still far from achieving inclusion in schools- no mainstreaming in practice
• Only selective Inclusion is there i.e. Inclusion of those with minor disability
• Teachers training for the same.• Need of flexible curriculum for
inclusion• Adequate resources for
Inclusive education
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Trained Manpower
• Dearth of passionate and committed teaching workforce.
• Proper deployment of teachers across country is required
• Teacher Assessment is important.
• Induction programmes should not be missed.
• Lack of leadership skill in school professionals.
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Vocational Courses
• A huge number of vocational courses should be introduced.
• In Canada more than 6000 vocational courses are available instead of 200 in India.
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Language; a concern• Language problem-one of the causes
of drop-outs• ‘English’ used in schools which is other
than the native language- a big challenge
• Focus shifts from gaining knowledge to learning language and then studying in the same language
• Mother tongue is important esp. in the first year of school
Multilingualism should be embraced In schools
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Synergy
A synergy should be there in all schools for a uniform
education
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Students learn differently
Multiple Intelligence ..
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Assessment
• Performance Based Assessment is preferable over traditional assessment.
• No more recalling answers to questions
• Students should be assigned a task in which they can demonstrate their mastery and then assessment should be based on their performance
• Cramming won’t work; meaningful task and expertise is required.
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Academic Excellence
• Schools should be high performing
•Curriculum, instruction and assessment should be aligned with high standards
•Students must be expected to meet or exceed those standards
•Instructional strategies should include a variety of challenging and engaging activities.
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Some questions on academic excellence
•Is there any zest for learning among students and teachers?•Are students expected to meet high academic standards? •Can students explain what they are doing in their classes and why is it important?•Do teachers know why they teach and what they are teaching?
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Other Challenges…• Life skills deployment• Alternatives to homework• Hobby / Talent development in
Schools• Creative activities• Academic Pressure on students• Moral values• Students movements towards –
Sex, Alcohol, Crime, Insults etc.• ICT, Technology in Schools• Integrated Learning
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CONFLICTING DEMANDS• Education for
all• Prolonged
compulsory education
• Lifelong learning
• Stress on team work and collaboration
• Values, such as: environmental protection, tolerance, understanding
• Increased social differences
• High rate of dropp-out
• Complaints about little knowledge
• Allientaion• Increased
violence, competitiveness and stress on material values
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Strategy
School level change is the objective- improving learning outcomes, quality and equity improved school management school environment and teacher-child relationship improved teaching-learning materials and equipments meaningful school-community partnership
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Strategy contd...
Capacity building of teachers
improving students’ assessment methods
exchange of ideas and resources among different schools (rotation system)
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Together…
We have to build better Schools and meet the
demands of the society
The task of preparing better citizens of the
country is in our hands
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