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observed the classroom transaction of the content of the subject. They also took
interview of the teacher. After the data collection, analysis was made through
both qualitative and quantitative approaches/methods. It was found that the
students by and large are not comfortable in English and their conceptual
understanding is not encouraging especially in the rural schools. On the other
hand, in urban and rural Hindi medium schools, most of the students are from
very ordinary socio-economic background and as a result despite their being
comfortable in Hindi medium, their performance is average. It was also found
that the infrastructure facilities are more often than not poor in Hindi medium
government schools as compared to English medium schools. In conceptual
understanding of subject content the impact of the socio-economic status of the
children’s parents was quite explicit. But one thing emerged prominently that
most of the parents have a very strong desire and aspiration for sending their
wards in English medium schools irrespective of urban and rural backgrounds.
However, the fact remains that the conceptual understanding of children in
subject content is better if their regional language/mother tongue is used as
medium of classroom transaction as it was evident from the performance of
assessment sheet in Environmental Studies and Mathematics.
DEVELOPMENT
Environmental Education Theme Park for Strengthening School
Education Programmes and Training of School Children for Generating
Environmental Awareness
The programme was jointly organised by Regional Institute of Education, Ajmer
and Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad. The objective of this event
was to strengthen environmental education and to bring school children, youth
and teachers together in an interactive forum to promote environmental
awareness. The programme was aimed at involving the network of eco-clubs
from thirteen states under the National Green Corps Programme of Ministry of
Environment and Forest, Government of India. Students and teachers from 13
states, namely Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Chandigarh,
New Delhi, Rajasthan and Gujarat participated in different events. The Prakriti
Mela-2011 was inaugurated on 1 February 2011. Professor Madhu Menon
delivered lecture on Being close to nature and understanding the Ecosystem.
Two different quiz, one for “Low Carbon Lifestyle” for the students of RIE and the
second quiz ‘Paryavaran Mitra’ quiz for the visiting states was also conducted.
Next day wetland’s bird watching at Anasagar Lake, on account of Wetlands day
was organised. Professor Madhu Menon guided teams of students and teachers
and helped in understand more about the Wetland Birds. Professor K.B. Rath,
Principal, RIE, Ajmer inaugurated the exhibition at Theme Park. Students exhibit
their stalls, and showcased their projects relating to 5 themes of Paryavaran.
There were exciting games like Environment Education related activities, Face
Painting, Drawing competition for visiting schools. Professor Farhad Contractor,
a water expert delivered a lecture and took the students and teachers through a
photographic journey of the water conservation tradition in the desert areas of
Rajasthan. The Bird Watching in the campus was followed by the Poster Making
competition for the teachers. Around 25 teachers showed up in the competition
and the theme was “What is Paryavaran Mitra”. Simultaneously, Collage
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