Education and Global Develpoment

EDUCATION

A global development challenge

A vital part of poverty reduction plan

Most influential means of development Shapes the destiny of a country

Education in India

LITERACY IN INDIA

Overall literacy rate in India—65.38%(2001)

Male literacy rate in India — 75.96%(2001)

Female literacy rate in India—54.28%(2001)

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How Can We Improve It?

o Promoting education that would give capacity to act

o Establishment of a close relationship between work and knowledge

o Awareness that children are the entrepreneurs

of tomorrow

o Propagation of natural way of learning

o Education could start with a productive work

o Propagation of Ancient Indian way of learning by doing/ learning from mistakes.

o Adaptability towards the changing situations

o Most importantly, “think out of the box”

o The teachers should be aware of their responsibility in

constructing a responsible and creative generation

o There should be regular and unannounced inspections to the schools

o School systems should be organized in such a way that they promote equality

o Overcome gender bias

o Increase in participation of the civil society

o Giving proper training to the teacher’s, and updating them with the new technology.

Kerala and Orissa- As Examples to show the importance of literacy rate.

KERALA

o Kerala has a higher literacy rate when (90.9%, 2001) compared to Orissa(63.61%, 2001).

o The female literacy rate in Kerala is much higher than any other states in India

o Higher literacy rate gives higher HDI value to this small state of India

o Education promoted transmission from a highly conservative, hierarchical and cast ridden society of Kerala

o Increase in appreciation of feminine values.

Orissa

o Not much importance is given to female education

o People are easily manipulated by politicians and become preys of communal violence

o Female literacy rate is only 50.97(2001)

o Low rate of female literacy could be the cause of increase in problems such as

-High rate of infant mortality

-Increase in maternal mortality

-Malnutrition

-Low life expectancy

HDI index and literacy rate in orissa

HDI Index and Literacy Rate In Kerala

Source - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVzg25qjjE

Source - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLVzg25qjjE

WHY SHOULD WE EDUCATE WOMEN?

o Education increases beauty of mind

o As many people have commented, if a man is educated, he alone benefits from it, but if

it is a women a whole family benefits

o Increase in hygiene, thus promoting health

o More awareness of sending the children to school

o Helps to overcome gender bias

o Enhancing human potential

o Increase in income

o Most importantly it is crucial for a balanced society

and economic growth

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Some Questions For the Indian Citizen

Are we really on the path of development?

What kind of development should we aspire for?

Are we working for the benefit of the society?

Can we work together to create equality among people, putting aside our cast systems?

Should we see our sisters as secondary citizens?

If all these are possible why aren’t we called a developed country yet?

Some Other Links used in this presentation

http://www.scribd.com/doc/4806/kerala-literacy

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