Re: [MTC Global] India Just Pushed Education Decades Into The Past

Though the concept of CCE was imported from the West and introduced in the Indian School circuit in 2009 under the RTE ambit, the idea behind this was to reduce the undue stress of competitiveness among students, parents and educational institutions. But the CCE was already there in our old schooling dating way back to the period of Kings who ruled our country. There the students were accessed overall to enhance and improve all aspects besides the studies. However after it was re-introduced as CCE in 2209, we lost the plot for the following reason:

• It was not fully understood by 67% of Teachers and 58% of Teachers opposed the new system. ( Hindu Newspaper: Critical analysis of CCE).
• The projects given in schools were too tough and most students preferred to outsource the preparation of projects to either parents or professionals and get good scores for work not done by them. Others who did it on their own ended up with shabby works and poor scores and perhaps envying their friends.
• The internet revolution has exposed its bane too with students copying/downloading information - ready made data  presented in projects and assignments rather than doing indepth study and doing presentation on their own through learning.
• The skewed Students-Teacher ratio of almost 45 - 1 in most schools has rendered individual attention for each student a difficult proposition. So partiality to front benchers perhaps also came into play. Mischievous students though good in grasping were left grasping for points getting their grade down to C & D.
• No proper training to Teachers and also absence of commitment from teachers sounded the death knell of the CCE right from the time it was introduced. Unionism among teachers also in a way contributed to the system not being explored for optimum benefits.

Regards,

Stephen

Stephen Narayanan

Freelance Educational Consultant/Corporate Training facilitator

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On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Nalini Juneja <nalinijuneja@gmail.com> wrote:

Maybe we also need to discuss what you call  'the flawed evaluation design of the CCE'. How did this flaw happen?

On Nov 26, 2016 2:48 PM, "Prof. Bholanath Dutta" <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:

A week ago, the HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar announced that India will push its education system back by a decade. I have been waiting for more to be said about this drastic change, but the deafening silence has proven that our children are merely guinea pig for experiments and will never be a subject of our 'great intellectual discourse'. Even the vocabulary used to describe the change is bland and strictly informational.

Yes, India has announced that it will re-introduce CBSE Boards for standard 10th from the academic year 2017-18.

From the flawed evaluation design of CCE, we have sent our children back to the rusty annual standardised examination model. All that was done in the name of progressive reforms has been reversed.-- 

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