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Creator/Artist: Amol Pakhale

Category: Product Design

Document: P1 Project

Batch: 2012-2014

Source: India,   IDC

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Eklavya


Detailed Description

Since the last three decades and more, Eklavya has been striving to translate this dream into a lived reality for all children. Working towards the goal of social change through meaningful education, it conducts researches and evolves curricular models at the micro level and attempts to implement them in the mainstream system to bring about change in the school education system in India. Since my childhood I had touch with this organization through my schools and here in IDC I got to know more about this organization from Prof. Raja Mohanty. So my past willingness to work with this organization becomes true through this internship programme. Eklavya was set up in 1982 as a non-government registered society. From the onset, it took up the academic responsibilities of the landmark Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme (HSTP), then being jointly run by the state government and two voluntary organizations, Kishore Bharati and Friends Rural Centre. Alongside, it developed and implemented the innovative Social Science Teaching Programme and the Primary Education Programme (PRASHIKA) in the government schools of Madhya Pradesh. More recently it worked with the National Council of Educational Research and Internship (NCERT) in developing the National Curriculum Framework (NCF) 2005 and the syllabuses and textbooks based on the NCF. Eklavya continues to actively seed and develop academic programmes for curricular change in elementary education, at the micro level, and mainstream them through government and non-government agencies. It has now initiated work in curricular research and material development in language and math in the primary stages and science and social sciences in the high school stages. This work of curricular critique, research and material development fuels its ongoing engagements with the State Councils of Educational Research and Internship (SCERTs) of Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh in providing them academic resource support in developing curricula and textbooks in various subject areas. Teacher professional development is another area that Eklavya is engaged with through research, material development and conducting teacher capacity building workshops. Eklavya also works with the community in about 100 villages in five districts of Madhya Pradesh to run learning centres (Shiksha Protsahan Kendras) for first generation school-goers. This attempt to enhance community involvement in education and build linkages with the government schools to demand quality and efficiency. In addition, 70 libraries in government middle schools spread over 6 districts in Madhya Pradesh try to entrust the ownership and management of the libraries in the hands of children. Regular reading-writing activities in the libraries are also positively impact the learning of language and other subjects in children. (Eklavya introduction n.d.)