Community-based Education at Rishi Valley
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Community-based Community-based Education at Education at Rishi ValleyRishi Valley
Full Economic Citizenship
Roundtable on Innovations in Education
RISHI VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (RIVER)
KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION INDIA
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Why is the system failing?Why is the system failing?
• Centralised curriculum
• Frustrated teacher
• Uninteresting classrooms
• Community losing faith
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Child in the driver’s seatChild in the driver’s seat
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Learning LadderLearning Ladder
• Sense of achievement
• Self paced learning
• Self driven learner
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Space and time managementSpace and time management
• Most rural schools –multigrade by default
• RIVER model – multigrade / multilevel by design
• dynamic grouping
• Grade, gender and ability – not the criteria
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Community OwnershipCommunity Ownership
• Community curriculum– Mothers’ stories– Traditional folk arts
• Mothers’ committees– Monitoring children’s
progress
– Organising mid-day meals
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Enriching village commonsEnriching village commons
• Barren wastelands converted into green public spaces
• Used variously for herbal gardens, water harvesting, solar energy
• Provides for fuel and fodder needs
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Cost effective modelCost effective model
• Design– single-room, single-teacher
• Teaching - learning materials– “School-in-a-box”
• Cost of building and establishment – Rs.1,50,000
• Cost of running – Rs.15,000
per month
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16 to thousands of schools16 to thousands of schools
HOWHOW??
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The first challengeThe first challenge
Problem
• Backward region
• Mainstreaming girl child labourers
Strategy
• Creating resource group
• Setting up 200 learning centres
Achievement
• 96.8% of the girls achieved minimum levels of learning
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Challenges in the formal sectorChallenges in the formal sector
Problem
• Cynicism of teachers
• Apathy of bureaucracy
• Resistance from the textbook lobby
Strategies
• Designer’s workshops
• Setting up 36 model schools
• On-the-job support
Achievement
• Scaling up in phases – 36 to 280 to 10’000 schools
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Reaching out to remote Reaching out to remote socio-linguistic minoritiessocio-linguistic minorities
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Regions in India practicing theRegions in India practicing the RIVER model RIVER model
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Reaching other developing countriesReaching other developing countries
• RIVER- Ethiopia Collaboration
• Several potential partnerships-Peru, Pakistan,China
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Replicating strategy Replicating strategy moving in partnershipsmoving in partnerships
• “Trans-creation” of materials
• Setting up model schools
• Scaling up in phases
• Putting in place decentralised support structures
• Transparent evaluation mechanisms
• Creating a critical mass of stakeholders
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Capacity buildingCapacity building
• Range of training programmes
• Hands-on training
• On-the-job support and monitoring
• Comprehensive training materials – teachers’ manuals, trainers’ modules, training films
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Global Development Network awardGlobal Development Network award“Most innovate development project ”“Most innovate development project ”
• GDN criteria– Creativity/innovativeness
– Social impact
– Cost performance
– Replicability
– Capacity building
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VISIONVISION
• Building regional resource groups
• Consolidate research base through action research
• Linkage with Universities-Metz, Regensburg, Harvard & London
• Creating a network of networks
24InnovationInnovation
• Putting the child in the driver’s seat
• Involving teacher and community in creating local-specific curriculum
• Designing dynamic space and time management for schools
• Making school as a community resource centre
RecapRecap
25Social impactSocial impact
• Joyful learning leading to negligible dropout rates
• Significant decrease in child labour in the region
• Enrichment of village commons
• Improvement in quality of life of the community
RecapRecap
26Cost performanceCost performance
• Sustainable design
– single room, single teacher
• Teaching learning material– comprehensive package for the whole school
• Rs.1,50,000 to set up a school
• Rs.15,000 a month to run the school
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27Capacity buildingCapacity building
• Experiential training
• On-the-job support and monitoring
• Comprehensive training materials
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28ReplicabilityReplicability
• From partnership to ownership
• “Trans-creation” of materials
• Setting up model schools
• Scaling up in phases
• Creating a critical mass
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29VisionVision
• Joyful childhood - creative teachers - strong networks
• Preserve the self-sustaining, self-replicating, self-evolving nature of the RIVER model
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Thank you for your attentionThank you for your attention