enlist the major issues of the elementary education in detail and suggest the ways to resolve it
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Brief outlines of the twelve major problems in the field of elementary education are discussed in this article. The twelve major problems are: 1. Wastage and Stagnation 2. Part-Time Education 3. Literacy 4. Finance 5. Administration and Supervision 6. Education of Girls 7. Enrichment of the Cirricula and Improvement of Quality 8. Teachers 9. Provision of Schools 10. Accommodation 11. Equipments and Ancillary Services 12. Parental Education.
(1) Wastage and Stagnation:
Of all the problems mentioned so far the greatest and the most menacing is the problem of wastage and stagnation. Vigorous efforts are needed towards reducing the rate of wastage and stagnation. The measures already taken in this regard should be intensified particularly to children from lower socio-economic groups.
The efforts for reducing wastage and stagnation should be concentrated on grade – I because wastage is the maximum at this stage. Before attaining functional literacy, i.e. completion of study up to Class V, premature withdrawal should be stopped at any cost. Wastage is appalling in case of girls. Hence greater attention is to be paid to the rate of wastage and stagnation among girls, After the age of 9 or 10, the child becomes an economic asset because he can work at home or earn something outside.
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This is especially true of girls who have to assist the over-worked mothers at home. The grinding poverty of the parents compel them to use the labour of their children at home and outside The child is, therefore, withdrawn from the school and thus becomes a “wastage case”. The long term solution to this problem of wastage can only come through general economic development. But the immediate solution to overcome this difficulty is to provide:
(2) Part-Time Education:
Part-time education should be introduced so that children can work as well as learn. “To offset wastage is to provide part-time education to children who have completed the lower primary stage, and who desire to study further”. The content of part-time education should be elastic and should be determined according to the needs and aptitudes of the children receiving it.
Attendance to part-time classes should be voluntary. But compulsion may be introduced where it is possible. Enrolment in part-time classes may be 20% of the total enrolment during the 7th plan period. “Wastage and stagnation, like headache and fever, are not diseases in themselves; they are symptoms of other diseases in the educational system. The chief among them are the lack of proper articulation between education and life and the poor capacity of the schools to attract and hold students. To these added a third ailment, which falls outside the system. Urgent action is needed to remove the first two educational weaknesses; the effect of the third can be offset only as the economy of the country improves. The goal of universal retention of pupils, therefore, is the most difficult of all and can be reached only over a period of time. Immediately an intensive programme may be organized for the reduction of wastage and to pursue it till the goal is reached”.
(3) Literacy:
Literacy Classes may be introduced to prevent ever-increasing rate of non-literacy”. A number of children do not get enrolled in schools. To attain permanent functional literacy and to check the incidence of relapse into literacy all children in the age-group 11-14, who are not attending schools and who have not completed the primary stage of education and have become functionally literate, should be required to attend literacy classes for a period of one year at least”. “Such classes can be organised by teachers in primary schools outside the regular school hours, utilising the buildings and equipment of the same schools. The timings of the classes would have to be elastic; they should be determined by local conditions and the needs of the children attending”.
ADVERTISEMENTS:
For girls, sometime in the afternoon is
(1) Wastage and Stagnation:
Of all the problems mentioned so far the greatest and the most menacing is the problem of wastage and stagnation. Vigorous efforts are needed towards reducing the rate of wastage and stagnation. The measures already taken in this regard should be intensified particularly to children from lower socio-economic groups.
The efforts for reducing wastage and stagnation should be concentrated on grade – I because wastage is the maximum at this stage. Before attaining functional literacy, i.e. completion of study up to Class V, premature withdrawal should be stopped at any cost. Wastage is appalling in case of girls. Hence greater attention is to be paid to the rate of wastage and stagnation among girls, After the age of 9 or 10, the child becomes an economic asset because he can work at home or earn something outside.
ADVERTISEMENTS:
This is especially true of girls who have to assist the over-worked mothers at home. The grinding poverty of the parents compel them to use the labour of their children at home and outside The child is, therefore, withdrawn from the school and thus becomes a “wastage case”. The long term solution to this problem of wastage can only come through general economic development. But the immediate solution to overcome this difficulty is to provide:
(2) Part-Time Education:
Part-time education should be introduced so that children can work as well as learn. “To offset wastage is to provide part-time education to children who have completed the lower primary stage, and who desire to study further”. The content of part-time education should be elastic and should be determined according to the needs and aptitudes of the children receiving it.
Attendance to part-time classes should be voluntary. But compulsion may be introduced where it is possible. Enrolment in part-time classes may be 20% of the total enrolment during the 7th plan period. “Wastage and stagnation, like headache and fever, are not diseases in themselves; they are symptoms of other diseases in the educational system. The chief among them are the lack of proper articulation between education and life and the poor capacity of the schools to attract and hold students. To these added a third ailment, which falls outside the system. Urgent action is needed to remove the first two educational weaknesses; the effect of the third can be offset only as the economy of the country improves. The goal of universal retention of pupils, therefore, is the most difficult of all and can be reached only over a period of time. Immediately an intensive programme may be organized for the reduction of wastage and to pursue it till the goal is reached”.
(3) Literacy:
Literacy Classes may be introduced to prevent ever-increasing rate of non-literacy”. A number of children do not get enrolled in schools. To attain permanent functional literacy and to check the incidence of relapse into literacy all children in the age-group 11-14, who are not attending schools and who have not completed the primary stage of education and have become functionally literate, should be required to attend literacy classes for a period of one year at least”. “Such classes can be organised by teachers in primary schools outside the regular school hours, utilising the buildings and equipment of the same schools. The timings of the classes would have to be elastic; they should be determined by local conditions and the needs of the children attending”.
ADVERTISEMENTS:
For girls, sometime in the afternoon is
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