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Community-based Education at Rishi Valley. Full Economic Citizenship Roundtable on Innovations in Education RISHI VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (RIVER) KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION INDIA. Centralised curriculum Frustrated teacher Uninteresting classrooms Community losing faith. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Community-based Community-based Education at Education at Rishi ValleyRishi Valley
Full Economic Citizenship
Roundtable on Innovations in Education
RISHI VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (RIVER)
KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION INDIA
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Why is the system failing?Why is the system failing?
• Centralised curriculum
• Frustrated teacher
• Uninteresting classrooms
• Community losing faith
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Child in the driver’s seatChild in the driver’s seat
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures
Community involvement - A school free of fear
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Learning LadderLearning Ladder
• Sense of achievement
• Self paced learning
• Self driven learner
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Space and time managementSpace and time management
• Most rural schools –multigrade by default
• RIVER model – multigrade / multilevel by design
• dynamic grouping
• Grade, gender and ability – not the criteria
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Community OwnershipCommunity Ownership
• Community curriculum– Mothers’ stories– Traditional folk arts
• Mothers’ committees– Monitoring children’s
progress
– Organising mid-day meals
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Enriching village commonsEnriching village commons
• Barren wastelands converted into green public spaces
• Used variously for herbal gardens, water harvesting, solar energy
• Provides for fuel and fodder needs
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Cost effective modelCost effective model
• Design– single-room, single-teacher
• Teaching - learning materials– “School-in-a-box”
• Cost of building and establishment – Rs.1,50,000
• Cost of running – Rs.15,000
per month
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16 to thousands of schools16 to thousands of schools
HOWHOW??
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The first challengeThe first challenge
Problem
• Backward region
• Mainstreaming girl child labourers
Strategy
• Creating resource group
• Setting up 200 learning centres
Achievement
• 96.8% of the girls achieved minimum levels of learning
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Challenges in the formal sectorChallenges in the formal sector
Problem
• Cynicism of teachers
• Apathy of bureaucracy
• Resistance from the textbook lobby
Strategies
• Designer’s workshops
• Setting up 36 model schools
• On-the-job support
Achievement
• Scaling up in phases – 36 to 280 to 10’000 schools
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Reaching out to remote Reaching out to remote socio-linguistic minoritiessocio-linguistic minorities
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Regions in India practicing theRegions in India practicing the RIVER model RIVER model
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Reaching other developing countriesReaching other developing countries
• RIVER- Ethiopia Collaboration
• Several potential partnerships-Peru, Pakistan,China
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Replicating strategy Replicating strategy moving in partnershipsmoving in partnerships
• “Trans-creation” of materials
• Setting up model schools
• Scaling up in phases
• Putting in place decentralised support structures
• Transparent evaluation mechanisms
• Creating a critical mass of stakeholders
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Capacity buildingCapacity building
• Range of training programmes
• Hands-on training
• On-the-job support and monitoring
• Comprehensive training materials – teachers’ manuals, trainers’ modules, training films
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Global Development Network awardGlobal Development Network award“Most innovate development project ”“Most innovate development project ”
• GDN criteria– Creativity/innovativeness
– Social impact
– Cost performance
– Replicability
– Capacity building
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VISIONVISION
• Building regional resource groups
• Consolidate research base through action research
• Linkage with Universities-Metz, Regensburg, Harvard & London
• Creating a network of networks
24InnovationInnovation
• Putting the child in the driver’s seat
• Involving teacher and community in creating local-specific curriculum
• Designing dynamic space and time management for schools
• Making school as a community resource centre
RecapRecap
25Social impactSocial impact
• Joyful learning leading to negligible dropout rates
• Significant decrease in child labour in the region
• Enrichment of village commons
• Improvement in quality of life of the community
RecapRecap
26Cost performanceCost performance
• Sustainable design
– single room, single teacher
• Teaching learning material– comprehensive package for the whole school
• Rs.1,50,000 to set up a school
• Rs.15,000 a month to run the school
RecapRecap
27Capacity buildingCapacity building
• Experiential training
• On-the-job support and monitoring
• Comprehensive training materials
RecapRecap
28ReplicabilityReplicability
• From partnership to ownership
• “Trans-creation” of materials
• Setting up model schools
• Scaling up in phases
• Creating a critical mass
RecapRecap
29VisionVision
• Joyful childhood - creative teachers - strong networks
• Preserve the self-sustaining, self-replicating, self-evolving nature of the RIVER model
RecapRecap
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Thank you for your attentionThank you for your attention