QUESTIONS ON EDUCATION SYSTEM

QUESTIONS ON EDUCATION SYSTEM

 Why do we always see students being envious of their counterparts in the USA?

Answers- It’s because there are just three options that students have after class-10 they are stuck with Science, Arts and Commerce. If they are not good enough for either of these, they jets set straight into diplomas and certificates courses. Do not you think the Indian Education System needs to introduce combination courses in which students can opt for major and minor subjects? If students in America can pursue physiotherapy with Art History and Biological science with Photography, why not in India?

Is it justified that a student is evaluated only on the basis of his/her performance for the duration of three hours of the exam?

Answer-All the other evils of the Indian education system ultimately come down to the method in which students are marked. It is not justified that a student is evaluated only on the basis of his/her performance for the duration of three hours of the exam. If the axis of grading and marking is shifted to classroom participation, project work, communication and leadership skills and extracurricular performance, only then genuine student shine out. This might sound like a utopian proposition but the Indian education system badly needs to bring about this change. Students are just not evaluated on the basis of exams, they should be evaluated on the basis of overall development and attention and their mentally level. Because some students just do ratafication during the exams and them able to get good marks but in real they are not attentive with the knowledge and use of that knowledge in practical aspect.

Is there is respect for all streams?

Answer- “Oh has she done a MA in English? She will end up becoming a teacher”

“What good is a diploma in hospitality management? It ultimately means doing a job in a hotel a cook right?”

If you have heard these lines time and again from your elders, do not you think it is time to stop them? How long are we going to look down upon vocational streams and look up to medicine, engineering, the IIT’s and the IIM’s?  Students at the school level need to be educated through career counseling regarding the kind of streams that exist and what importance each of them plays to make an economy diverse. There should be respect of all kind of streams.

What are the reasons for the tuition classes mushrooming nowadays?

Answer- Commenting on this subject is like plunging one’s hand into a vicious cycle which seems to have no beginning or end. Reason for tuition classes mushrooming are because students say that the teaching in school is lax and not good enough for them to clear exams. Whereas teacher say that students jump ahead many chapters in the tuition classes before they are even taught in school. This makes them loose all motivation and stream to attend school in the first place.

Beyond the figures, what do we know about the excluded?

 Answer- Exclusion has many faces. Despite real progress since 2000 towards universal primary education, 72 million children are still not enrolled at all in school. More than half are girls. Seven out of ten live in sub-Sahara Africa and south and west Asia. Poverty and marginalization are major cause of exclusion. Households in rural or remote communities and children in urban slums have less access to education. Disabled children suffer from blatant educational exclusion- they account for one third of all out of school children. Working children, those belonging to indigenous groups and linguistic minority’s area among the vulnerable groups. Some 37 per cent of out of school children live in 35 states defined as fragile by the organization for economic Cooperation and development, but these do not include all, places facings conflicts and post conflict situations. In every case children are at enormous risk of missing out on an education.

Research on out of school children suggest that many countries are now promoting access to school but not ensuring decent education quality. Why?

Answer- Once you indentify who the excluded are and why they are not in school, Strategies can be developed to get them into school and keep them there. The challenge is to implement policies and practices to overcome the sources of exclusion. It is necessary to look at what happens in and out of school-from children’s daily reality in their homes and communities to what happens when they go to school, what they are actually learning and in what conditions.

 How does inclusive education promote successful learning?

Answer- Efforts to expand enrolment must be accompanied by policies to enhance educational quality at all levels, in format and in non-formal settings. We have to work on an access to success continuum by promoting policies to ensure that excluded children get into school coupled with programmers and practices that ensure they succeed there. It is process that involves addressing and responding to the diverse needs of learners. This has implications for teaching, the curriculum, ways of interacting and relations between the schools and the community.

 How does education need to change the accommodate everyone?

Answer- The overall goal I to ensure that school is a place where all children participate and are treated equally. This involves a change in how we think about education. Inclusive education is an approach that looks into how to transform education systems in order to respond to the diversity of learners, it means enhancing the equality of education by improving the effectiveness of teachers, promoting learning-centered methodologies, developing appropriate textbooks and learning materials and ensuring that schools are safe and healthy for all children. Strengthening links with the community is also vital, relationships between teachers, students, parents and society at large are crucial for developing inclusive learning environments.

 Teacher has a foremost influence on learning. Yet their status and working conditions in many countries make it difficult to promote inclusion. What can be done to improve their lot?

Answer- The way teachers teach is of critical importance in any reform designed to improve quality. A child centered curriculum is characterized by a move away from rote learning and towards greater emphasis on hands-on, experience-based, active and cooperative learning. Introducing inclusion as a guiding principle has implications for teachers’ practices and attitude –be it towards girls, slow learners, children with special need or those from different backgrounds. Adequate pre-service and in-service teacher training is essential to improve learning. Moreover, policies must address their status, welfare and professional development. But there exists not only a severe teacher shortage, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and south and west Asia, but a lack of adequately trained teachers. This shortage has unfortunate consequences for the quality of learning. A new curriculum cannot be introduced without familiarizing teachers with its aims and contents. Assessment can help to teachers to measure student performance and to diagnose difficulties. But teachers need to understand the value of good assessments practices and learn skills to develop their own tests.