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Development of Action Plan for Education of Linguistic Minorities for
Guidelines for Enhancing Quality of School Education in UTs/States
with High Tribal Population
The project resulted from the recommendations of the National Focus Group on
problems of education of Scheduled Tribes children because of their mothertongue
being different from the medium of instruction in the schools. In this
regard, meetings were held at Port Blair from 31 January to 2 February 2011
and Bengaluru on 25-26 March 2011. The meetings were organised in
collaboration with the SIE, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and DSERT,
Karnataka. A two-day action plan for the state of Karnataka was held at
Bengaluru in which experts from DIETs, SCERT, NCERT and other institutions
participated. Discussions were held with the educational functionaries regarding
Scheduled Tribes and linguistic minority concerns as reflected in the NCF-2005,
in the position paper of NFG and the project report on Development of Educational
Strategies for Linguistic Minorities. The lacunae in the implementation of the
linguistic minority related concerns in the school education system were reviewed.
Action plans for enhancing the implementation of the Scheduled Tribes and
minority related concerns at the level of institutional framework, school
curriculum, pedagogy, teacher development, etc. were developed for the
respective UT/State in consultation with the district and state level functionaries.
TRAINING
Follow up of Teachers Training Programme already Conducted for SC
Dominated Areas with Low Literacy and Low Education Level of Children
from Scheduled Castes
The training programme was undertaken with the objective of empowering
teachers working in SC dominated areas and building up skills of management
of classroom problems of children from Scheduled Castes. A three-day field visit
of ten schools of Raipur, Durg and Mahasamund districts from 28 to 31 July
2010 and four-day field visit in the schools of Kolar and Chamarajanagaram
districts from 27 to 30 September 2010 were made by the coordinator and experts
from DSERT, Bengaluru, for assessing the impact of earlier training programme
and assessment of teachers’ needs for further training programmes. During the
Follow up of Teachers’ training programme held at DSERT, Bengaluru
from 6 to 9 January 2011
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