Nios Deled Course - 501
Assignment 1 Answer
Course-501
Elementary Education in India: A Socio- Cultural Perspective
Assignment-I
Note: Answer the following questions in
about 500 words.
1. What type of changes you want in yourself as a
teacher to cater the need of the
changing society and learner? Explain with at
least two examples.
Answer:
According to changing nature of today’s society,
we may realize the
noticeable changes and development taking place
in the global society due to
ICT(Information and communication Technology)
today. ICT influences all walks of
our life. This whole new social order is emerging
in last couple decades. There is no
precedence to these changes. The technological
development and advances in the
emerging world is so fast that, it is not
possible to have a clear prediction of what will happen in just a couple
decades. But, One can visualize the next coming years by
the following points.
a. The form of the future society that we
visualize.
b. The changes taking place in the conceptual
framework of education taking
place due to the advancing generation.
c. Changes taking place in delivery modes.
d. will the education system of today be still
relevant for the future, or are we
just moving towards no progress.
This transforming generation needs an immediate
plan of action for the
education system to cope up with the new social
structure and its
unprecedented needs.
So, As a teacher, to cater the changing status of
society and learners, I would
like to make the following change-
1. To develop better learning-resources-
For today’s learning society implementation of
new technologies in
education is an important notion. Instructional
processes are changing in
respect to the learner’s autonomy. The learner is
supreme and has got all
the resources and choices available to select his
or her strategy. New
learning processes like self study, cooperative
and collaborative learning,
e-learning and branded learning. Group learning
working-developing
together, L3 groups of teachers/learners, social
networking and blogs,
are being used with every increasing frequency
for sharing ideas,
experiences, discussion and learning. Development
and use of OERs,
techniques and technologies for curriculum
development and delivery,
new pedadogy like constructive pedadogy, are
proving more effective
than the traditional ones in creation and sharing
of knowledge.
2. Performing as technology-pedgogue-
Today’s education techniques are also influenced
by ICT applications. We
can see that ICT can be useful in curriculum
development and delivery
modes, learning processes, like collaborative
working, learning and
developing. Self study. Open educational
resources. L3 groups, online
learning, etc.
Teachers today have to address to the issues
related to this new learning
process and newer learning environment. They have
to find ways to
facilitate learning and accelerate the process of
change. Today’s student
will need new competencies, potential, skills, to
be productive and
efficient citizens of this global society.
Education as an instrument of
social change has to cater to the needs of the
emerging society.
Question 2.
Survey some schools in your locality and enlist the major issues of the
elementary education. Suggest the ways to resolve
these issues.
Answer
I have completed surveying the schools in our locality and have listed
below the major
issues of elementary education and their ways to
resolve them-
Issues-
1. Poverty.
2. Less retention of children in school.
3. Gender discrimination among children.
Poverty-
In elementary schools, one of the major issue i have noticed is poverty.
They have to assist their parents at their workplace to earn some
income and to
carry out their livelihood of their family. From childhood they have
to bear the
family’s burden, and sacrifice education for it. This is one of the
reason for their less
involvement in schools.
Resolution-
As far as concerned about this issue is that, that all the government
elementary schools have data of children who study in the schools and
those who don’t, all
these records are maintained and reviewed every year in “BAL PANJI”.
The way in which poverty can really be tackled according to me is to
give more earning
opportunities to their parents that the children would not have to
work and can continue
their studies. This would involve making a change
in economy.
Less retention in schools-
This is a common issue that i see in government schools. In rural
areas, most illiterate
parents do not pay attention to their children’s education. That is
why, it is seen that most
of these rural children do not attend school., and rather work and
play outside of school. If
there is no motivation from their parents then, it is a hard thing for
children to think of
themselves.
Resolution-
As a teacher, i think there should be a mass education campaign in
rural areas to tell them
and convince them that there is no future without education, and tell
them the importance
of education for their children and their own future. And, make
education method intersting
and engaging , so the children have fun learning, while will
definitely lead to better number
of children in schools.
Gender discrimination among children-
Discrimination based on gender is one of the impediments of elementary
education. Girls
are most often the victims of discrimination and are thus deprived of
education. This is a
curse of our society.
Resolution-
This is a very serious issue and should be resolved immediately.
Government has provided
many facilities and schemes for girls, still girls are lagging behind.
So, as a teacher, i would
like to stress on gender equality on the education level and tell them
about the importance
of girl education in our society. Overall, children from aged 6-14
have fundamental right of
education irrespective of age and sex.
So, it’s easy to find out the issue that affects elementary education,
their reason for not
attendance, or not schooling at all. Or, if Part-time type of
education is available then, they
can study as well as work. And we cannot forced parents to send
children to school at all
situations either, as often times, it is rather important for them to
work than to study, so, it
is a good approach according to me that, part-time education can be
implemented, if
possible.
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