The Katha School: Where Learning Matters

Autor/in	Hanzelka, Richard
Titel	The Katha School: Where Learning Matters
Quelle	In: Educational Leadership, 64 (2007) 8, S.66-69 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1784
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Self Help Programs; National Curriculum; Learning Centers (Classroom); High Risk Students; Poverty; Educational Strategies; Democracy; Nonprofit Organizations; Program Effectiveness; Partnerships in Education; Reading Instruction; Story Telling; Cultural Pluralism; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Self help programmes; Selbsthilfebewegung; Unterrichtsdifferenzierung; Problemschüler; Armut; Lehrstrategie; Demokratie; Nonprofit-Organisation; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Leseunterricht; Kulturpluralismus; Indien
Abstract	During its trip to India in 2006, the ASCD Board of Directors visited the Katha School, which is located in a high-poverty section of Delhi. The Katha School began in 1989 with five students. It now houses 1,450 students, with hundreds on a list waiting to get in. Part of the Kalpavriksham Centre for Sustainable Learning, the school is the main learning center that works in and with a large slum cluster in Delhi. The Katha School works to improve the surrounding community, which is highly impoverished, by running self-help groups for community members on a variety of topics. The school is also committed to the idea that through story, the school community will actively build a caring society. The Katha School is an example of the kind of learning environment that India's National Curriculum Framework 2005 is trying to move toward. But India has its challenges. The country has been in the throes of a "testing as learning" struggle for some time. Also, its greatest challenge--now that all children in India have the right to go to school--may be using education to strengthen the democratic way of life. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10