Dr. Maxine Berntsen: Promoting Pedagogy of Early Reading and Writing in the First Standard. (https://youtu.be/sB84Cj3niBg )
-- - Dr. Maxine Berntsen was born in Escanaba, Michigan, USA on 7 October 1935.
- In 1978 Maxine Berntsen who had come to India to do fieldwork for her dissertation on social variation in the Marathi speech of Phaltan; while doing her linguistic research she developed an interest in school education.
- Maxine Berntsen started a literacy class for out-of-school children in the underprivileged area of Phaltan town. Gradually the focus changed to enrolling these children in municipal school and helping them stay there and succeed.
- Dr. Berntsen soon realized that children across all strata of the community were deprived of good, joyous education. This belief was further strengthened by a complete refusal of her friend's grand-daughter to go to a kindergarten after the first day. And so a full time, Marathi medium school, the Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan (KNB) was started in 1986.
- The focus was to improve teaching of early reading and writing in the first standard.
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