Combining Education and Work; Experiences in Asia and Oceania: India.

Institution	United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and Oceania.
Titel	Combining Education and Work; Experiences in Asia and Oceania: India.
Quelle	(1978), (62 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Agricultural Education; Education Work Relationship; Educational Policy; Educational Programs; Elementary Secondary Education; Equal Education; Experiential Learning; Productivity; Quality of Life; Relevance (Education); Rural Development; Rural Education; Vocational Education; Work Experience Programs; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Produktivität; Lebensqualität; Relevance; Relevanz; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Berufsbildung; Indien
Abstract	Indian educational policy is based on the Gandhian philosophy that personality development and social transformation result from education based on Socially Useful Productive Work; that is, meaningful manual work resulting in goods or services useful to the community. Decentralized work programs plus a core curriculum are basic to secondary education. They are divided into two tracks--preparation for advanced education and a Vocational Spectrum, which emphasizes rural, agricultural, and related vocations. The Vocational Spectrum curriculum consists of language study; foundation courses in self-development, history, and economics; and vocational electives. Despite 1978 recommendations, limited work-experience programs exist in just 41,699 (7%) Indian schools. Only 22% of those schools have adequate equipment; 24% have work-experience teachers. Craft education exists in 30% of all schools, although only 3.5% have adequate equipment. Just .91% of all schools have work-experience or craft workrooms. Programs such as Lok Bharati, established to regenerate rural life with culturally compatible education; the Rural Higher Education Institute, designed to employ research results in villages; the Package Plan for Rural Development through Education, to improve educational relevance in rural areas; and the Rural University Project, to integrate rural education and rural development, successfully employ Socially Useful Productive Work policies. (SB)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC