ARTICLE 23: 70th B’Day Volume 2009-2010 of
Professor Dr Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana
dt:23rd July 2010
The Educational Strategy in India is still not mature
by
Sachitananda Rath
English Language Teacher, MVD High School, Dandubazar, Maharanipeta. P.O., Visakhapatnam-530002 & Res: PM Palem, Visakhapatnam
ABSTRACT:
This article brings out the need of the India Specific Educational Strategy to up-bring the wards and the children for a National Skills oriented stream of enterprise. The necessity of getting rid of the 150 years educational pattern and its modifications thereof made by several study experts and reformers is essential. New dynamism is a must. A new outlook is optimistic.
Introduction:
The Indian experts have spent considerable time and devotion on study visit consultations etc., efforts to evolve a suitable strategy for the Primary and Higher Secondary Education system to be adopted in India. Many people and members of staff various organizations have visited foreign countries and also obtained expertise course studies on the educational patterns. One thing is clear that the primary and High School teachers are not regarded or counted in India on par with the University teachers and the Professors. The most advanced educated academic staff in a country like USA, don’t mind to work at the Primary and Higher Secondary educational Institutions. They know that their wards are to be exposed to the fast developing advanced studies at a global level and the need to prepare their children to meet the requirements of the competitive world market. May be the pay scales are more attractive and commensurate. A patriotic outlook needed to be developed in India, instead of regarding the education especially at higher levels as an Industrial Enterprise. What is needed is the devotional attitude to bring up sensible and talented wards at the basic level.
Deficiencies:
The most often quoted reason of failure to educate the wards at the Primary and Higher School levels is that the infra structure facilities are meagre. This is true since we have adopted a completely westernised educational strategy and the language requirements. It’s not that all the wards would, eventually land abroad in wealthy and gentle friendly countries for their future professionalism and living standards. Most often it is the later aim of a luxurious living standard of foreign countries that is found more attractive than the enterprise of professionalism. The people are carried away by the misnomer of open-hands welcome by foreign countries to the people in India.
Mixed feelings of the Individual or Group presentations following their visits to various foreign Institutions have become redundant and most frequently their suggestions are half-heartedly pursued if not totally abandoned for the reasons of so-specified requirements of their educational systems in the respective regions and the State.
Multi-National Companies:
The requirements of the MNCs established in India have taken the grip of educational system at all levels of education in India. Notable example is the adoption of English as the first language in Andhra Pradesh. It may the failure of the State to evolve the Telugu as a link language for the Global enterprise. While Japanese have succeeded in retaining their National Language of enterprise in every possible sector of National Growth and global business, the Countries like Germany and France have retained their National Identities in International Markets. In India the swing towards adoption of submission to the needs of the MNCs is genuinely obvious. Greed of earnings would eventually lead to the collapse of irreversible global market enterprise by India.
Present Status:
It’s impossible for me as a High School teacher to evaluate the present Status of educational pattern. I am, subject to like many of us, at the Schools to follow the requirements of the government which, are made in the best interests of the country. I whole heartedly am participating in that endeavour. Our schools are producing almost cent percent success at the primary and high school education in spite that the most of the children are from very backward if not poor family conditions and social status. The standards would eventually improve and our wards would get the full benefit of education at the schools with the improved provision and continued up gradation of the Infra Structural facilities. Its’ not just the government alone can achieve it without the donors and peoples participation. I have several ideas of implementation more to my personal liking and am not sure whether they would suit elsewhere. School teachers need also be given the status of the University Education since and in fact the School level education is much more difficult and thought provoking in view of the stringent social commitment.
Some Thoughts:
One of the essential things is to evolve an India specific educational strategy to augment the national professionalism. The computer and the helping hand by many an Industrial Firms like edge.com etc., are giving their utmost for the betterment of the standards in Schools and an integrated effort of utility of these to the larger section of students might be difficult, but not formidable if one intends to get success with it. We at Schools are trying our best to keep up the school ledgers, records, notes, answer sheets, source question material, study material and the like many a many items of dire need to show our progress and also helping the data generation for the considered authority. New things are emerging and the School educational pattern is being well understood by this frequent exercise. May be one day the old tradition of skill and interest oriented pattern of education would evolve to suit the individual requirement of each ward. Thus with the computers and the artificial intelligence it may be possible to set up an India specific educational strategy at the Primary and Higher Secondary School levels in the country. This would enable to get away with the uniform pattern and exercise which, would be just a mere exercise rather than aiming at the development of individual skills of each child and the ward.
Conclusion:
I am only trying to asses myself the educational strategy of the Schools since me as a teacher need to keep myself abreast of the requirements of the Country.
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