Preface – Contemporary mainstream Indian education system is mostly based on the fundamental brahmanical ideology and western philosophical discourse. For the betterment of humanity we need a new model of education. In the medium of DalitBahujan and TribalAdivasi epistemological perspective we can create that type of holistic model for all of us. As a…
Status of Government Schools : Sulbha Z
Right to have Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 is most significant step towards universalization of education and quality education. RTE act provides various provisions for ensuring quality education with infrastructure, curriculum, evaluation, safety and security and many more. It has been now almost 10 years for enactment of RTE act. We can see that…
Report on Out of School Children: Arkja, Sulbha, and Ram
“Out of School Children” (OOSC) refer to children belonging to the school going age that is not going to school. Therefore OOSC includes children under the school going age who will “enter late” to school, the ones who will “never enter” and the ones who have “left school” before completing their education. Alternatively, OOSC can…
Mallala of Uttar Pradesh: Ram Gaikwad
Date- 02/09/2018Place- Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. (At Zainab home, from left Ram, Mukesh, Zainab, Arkja, and Sulbha) This is a story of Mallala in Uttar Pradesh. Her name is ‘Zainab’. She belongs from Muslim community of small village of Uttar Pradesh. Her parents are illiterate but they are aware of the importance of education. It was…
Response to Mainstream Philosophy of Education from a Dalit-Tribal Perspective: Ram Gaikwad
The reading and search of the philosophy of education through the ‘perspective from below’ raises a very fundamental question on the marginalization of the mainstream academics of the contribution of Phule and Ambedkar on education. The present academic discourse in this domain has no space for the philosophy of education from the perspective of the…
Nalanda – Prototype of Education for Innate Strugglers
Nalanda is an educational Institution strives for the socially, educationally and economically deprived students. It is an emerging institute showing profound effect on the individual life chances and attainment. Nalanda has various initiatives like Academy, Labs, women wing, etc. Nalanda Academy has the significant one program of Nalanda which is the space for Dalits…
Introduction to RTE: Sulbha Zende
There is this popular saying that “ Education is both the means and the ends to a better life” Education is not merely the once ability to read and write but to develop the Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes which will contribute to the domain of knowledge production in long run. Education is a means to…
‘No Detention Policy’- A perspective from below: Sulbha Zende
The Right of children to have free and compulsory education Act, 2009, is the only act in India that guarantees free and compulsory education for all children irrespective of the social location of the child. No detention Policy under RTE act, 2009 states that all children till 8th standard will get promoted and no child…
Learnings from engaging with the ‘Field’: Sulbha Zende
It was very first time that I was going out to another state. This field work has not gave me opportunity to do field work but also to get exposure to new places for which I am grateful to the organisation. Throughout the field work I had rich learning experience. As I was working in…
Navayana Education 