Wednesday, July 2, 2008

7th std book

The row over the 7th standard text book in Kerala is politically motivated by some unacademic politicians. Some political parties only interested in their political gains and not bother about the academic aspect of our schooling. They criticised the book even without reading and understandin the curricular object in the lesson. They must know that the new education pedagogy adopted in Kerala is most innovative inwhich students themselves create knowledge by understanding the situations and evident from the experiment dine by them. Teachers are only fecilitating them for such expiriments and finding outs. In this methode student discusse by group and interact their ideas and create knoledge. Student, unlikely our conventional methode,are not puppets whispering what they hearing from teachers.
This is child centered education not teachers centered like usual type.
Unknowing these devolopment in Kerala's education system, some irrogant political party criticise and disagree with new methodology in our education system which implemnted after long and profound thinking and discussions by able innovative persons with a wide social concept.
This controversy opened a new chapter in Kerala. Some Panchayath dared even to ban this text book in school in their jurisdiction.( Kalpakanchery Panchayath authoritis passed a resolution to ban the book in studying this book) They victimised a politiacal consipiracy even without reading the chapter in the text book.
KeralaGovernment instituted a committee to reviw the book and to suggest what ever in the book as anti academic and anti religion, more anti progress of our society. But our opposition party not willing to cooperate with them without reading of hte book. Their motive is another thing than education of our children.
pls react without prejudice

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