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Accelerating rural literacy with special emphasis on Women, SCs, STs & Minorities through Adult Education and National Open Schooling Systems

Accelerating rural literacy with special emphasis on Women, SCs, STs & Minorities through Adult Education and National Open Schooling Systems
Start Date :
Jan 22, 2015
Last Date :
Nov 01, 2015
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Though there have been significant gains in literacy rates, large gender, social and regional disparities in literacy levels persist. The gains in literacy levels are due to ...

Though there have been significant gains in literacy rates, large gender, social and regional disparities in literacy levels persist. The gains in literacy levels are due to success of the adult education programmes and improvements in primary schooling. However, there is a further need to enhance the literacy levels of the socially marginalized groups and those living in rural areas through interventions of adult education programmes and open schooling systems. This theme seeks to elicit views on how we achieve faster progress in reducing the existing disparities in literacy levels.

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Ashwini Kumar
Ashwini Kumar 11 years 6 months ago
I think we should clearly indicate the difference between literacy and education, which we have forgotten. Education begins at home while literacy and education both should be emphasized in schools. Firstly, the major chunk of children in India are not students and this condition is prevailing because the condition of government schools is not at all good. This "condition" includes the infrastructure and teachers. The problem is, almost neglegible percentage youths want to become teacher. THINK
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Deepak Borkar
Deepak Borkar 11 years 6 months ago
Every one Talks of Education from school level. But please remember Education with culture and hygine habbits starts from level of Play schoo. Please give max. attn to same as if basic is strong then treegrows well.
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Meenakshi Srinivasan
Meenakshi Srinivasan 11 years 6 months ago
Implementation: Through Panchayat offices- each office technically has a tv/ computer facility as does each government school. Access to these facilities with a national learner ID so that each learner can access a "personal digital lesson plan"- the menu looks like the video games kids play- mastery in eah level takes them to the next step n their learning. See Rosetta stone language learning program for ideas- when linked with sound, these computers can become the "teachers 24/7"
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Meenakshi Srinivasan
Meenakshi Srinivasan 11 years 6 months ago
Summation: Tight timeline to be established for immediate literacy. The brain learns best when it is continually exposed to writing/ reading daily. Individual lesson plans that identify the reasons why the person wishes to learn and their target timeframe need to be established to speed up the process. Using online resources that encourage learning time and a "private tutor" (think Professor Nannan from Chennai Doordarshan '70s-80s who patiently taught Tamils to write their letters painstaking)
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Meenakshi Srinivasan
Meenakshi Srinivasan 11 years 6 months ago
Identifying dyslexia and other learning disorders in the adult learner is important to success. Rangoli patterning and other radially/ bilaterally symmetrical patterning can be used as easy tools to identify these basic disabilities. Then the teacher can better adapt her lesson plan to support the learner towards her learning goals after further testing.
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Meenakshi Srinivasan
Meenakshi Srinivasan 11 years 6 months ago
Incorporating basic words into their daily lives- can be "writings on their walls" or name boards/ plaques. Playing word games- orally and then writing on grain or sand. The advantage of learning any Indian language is that they are phonetically organized and easy to spell and write. Once the learner has achieved basic education levels of being able to organize their thoughts in the form of a letter or an essay- a short one, then they can be exposed to English or a second language.
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Meenakshi Srinivasan
Meenakshi Srinivasan 11 years 6 months ago
Moving from illiteracy to basic literacy should not take more than 3 months- with daily exposure to letters/ alphabets including simple small words. Then recognizing words in a sentence and becoming fluent readers take from 6 months to a year (again daily exposure- even if only for 20-30 mins. Successful adult literacy programs include formation of self-help groups where the learners organize themselves into workable groups- neighbors/ family members etc. and learn together when not in "class".
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Meenakshi Srinivasan
Meenakshi Srinivasan 11 years 6 months ago
IEPs (contd): Readathons encouraged by local companies/ industries including prizes where people are given a short time- say 2 mins and have to read as fast as possible. The winner is the fastest reader who reads the most words. This reward system can also be linked to a government scheme to earn for a small loan or reducing interest rates for a microloan etc- this way it can encourage more rural enterprise. Plus become a hands on way to teach Maths
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Meenakshi Srinivasan
Meenakshi Srinivasan 11 years 6 months ago
IEPs for adult literacy: Identify a timeline that will work with each learner to achieve basic reading/ writing levels. Minimum exposure of 26 times to alphabets gets to be retained in memory. Rewriting and reusing over 100 brings mastery and is permanently retained (there are several research papers from the US that can substantiate this) Increase availability of reading material- local newspaper, magazines, small books with short stories- MGR enhanced reading levels in TN with public libraries
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