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 Rethinking Nai Talim

 

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School children vaccinating country chicken -ducks, West Bengal

Fruit Tree Grafting

Disinfecting Tubewells

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 Nai Talim vs

A separate Activity Period ( SUPW / Work Education )

vs

Vocational Course  

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Tagore

15 point Rural Reconstruction charter 1906 –Pabna

Conference

Sikshasatra 1924  

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 National Focus Group On “Work and Education”

NCF –2005 Chair : Anil Sadgopal

Why did Nai Talim fizzle out ?

Separate SUPW / Work Education subject

Vocational education

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Reconstruct the entire school curriculum from the pre-

primary to senior secondary stage with a view to making productive work (and other

forms of work as well, including social engagement) a

pedagogic medium for knowledge acquisition, developing values and multiple-skill formation.

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Why did Nai Talim fizzle out ?

We will know what type of education to provide , if we know what type of society we want ---

Dewey ( Vasavi)

INDUSTRIALISM

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Why re-think Nai Talim now ?

Collapse of Industrialism Disruptive age ( Vasavi)

Impetus for Zero growth ( Dhruv)

What if ~ 25 M finish High School every year ?

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75th anniversary celebrations of Nai Talim

At Sevagram on 17-18 Nov 2012

Rejuvenated Ananda Niketan Renewed School Experiments all

over India

Pune University Colleges -- new GVS ?

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Azim Premji Foundation’s MissionImprove quality of rural govt school

system(Just – Equitable – Sustainable –

Humane Society)

And its Learning in 8 years ?

One outcome

Azim Premji University Private university with a public

purpose

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Azim Premji Foundation

(APF)

Field institutes in 8

states50 districts

by 2015

2 demo schools in

each of the 50 districts

IAA

Azim Premji University(AP

U)

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Azim Premji University Developmental Mission and its

Dilemmas

Theory and Practice What Students ?

Language Problem Social Science vs ?

What Faculty ?How to Reach Practitioners ?

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Some Features No departments

Extension / Continuing Education(University Resource Centre URC)

Realizing the vision in the Neighborhood

Partnerships

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What do we Plan to do ?

• Nai Talim in APF schools • Critical documentation, research ,

action • Learning from other countries • A course in Masters ; and a

specialization• Work with undergraduate colleges• Work with Rural livelihood NGOs• Network and advocacy with other

universities/actors for Diversified school system

APU and NAI TALIM

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Theory is when you know everything

but nothing works

Practice is when everything works but no one knows why

In our lab , theory and practice are combined.

Nothing works and no one knows why