One can always, say, where was the presence of "Urban", at that point of time, to make demarcation of education, on basis of urban and rural ? However , to me , there might not be territories as urban as we see today , but there are areas, which are less developed and areas which are highly developed. "Rurban" a term which is added to my dictionary today , (thanks to Mr Supriya Biswas to get me acquainted with the work of Rama and her book "A never before world" ) makes me to think that the the question should be "Whether we should structure the content and delivery of education on terms of more developed and less developed " rather than urban and rural as a demarcation, between the urban areas and rural areas, are in the process of fading. While some rulers have always considered education , the, means of propagating there ideology , as if they have got an "genie" with a "lamp of aladin" in there hand , who will bring more fan following and votes in there future accounts , with present regime not being and exception of that.There are common target areas are history books , which they always wanted to rewrite according to there choice, and perspective on history. Still, there are few also , who have considered education as a means for development . And if we look seriously, "education"- as a means of development , as it produces the key component of development - which is "human capability" , we can find some great missing links for the great puzzle , we in these forum is contemplating - day in and day out - "why the final products coming from the average education institution, is not matching with the Industry demands". Even there is a scope of doing a "little forward thinking" which might not be appropriate to call as visionary thinking, though . A little forward thinking , is a right term to make a blue print of the development, we are planning to do, on the next 5 years of a particular region, and link it up with the curriculum and content structure of the education delivery of the institutes existing, on that region." . We have these "5 year plan " model of Governance existent already, but they where never being linked up properly with the educational institutes existing on the regions. All these development will see the daylight, only if we have right kind of talents, in place. So, if we can design differential education strategy,[ opposite to "One size fits all"] based on regional development co-ordinates - that can take in account of urban , rural , rurban and all other terms we can innovate on multifarious development. Then we can have perfect moment of "Déjà-vu" in both education and development. |
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Curriculum ( to some extent) based on local needs , aspiration, job creation, enterprising skills to best utilise the local resources and embedding local culture can benefit larger segment of student community to greater extent.
Vocational University probably find an solution to this divide.
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Cell +91 96323 18178On 05-Jun-2014 8:00 PM, "supriya biswas" <supriya_biswas@hotmail.com> wrote:----The concept 'Rural' now seems to be largely primitive in modern times. Thanks to Internet and media explosion, what is happening in US is known within seconds in any part of the country. There is rapid urbanization of so called 'rural' society. This has been well explained by Ms Rama Bijapurkar in her book 'A Never-before World' where she has coined the term 'Rurban'. So why discriminate the rural students? Professor Goel has mentioned one point which I feel is very valid and that is language skill. Generally good teachers in language tend to flock around the city. The colleges need to take strong initiative in grooming them in communications, both written and oral, so that they can smartly cross the hurdles of GD/PI.RegardsDr Biswas
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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:42:23 +0530Students from rural background may be lacking in language skills effecting their listening and questioning skills, they may be lacking in terms of some soft skills, they may not be exposed to what is happening around the world but it does not mean that they are lacking in intelligence. They may be more intelligent, more hard working and more focused - what needs to be done is perhaps have a bridging program that provides them exposure and skills that they may be found lacking in comparison to city boys and I would not be surprised that they may outperform the city boys because generally they will have less distractions in comparison to the social life of city boys.
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Is it possible to have different syllabus and teaching-learning process for urban and rural students for the same course to overcome the one size fits all strategy which is non-productive in many cases.
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