Work Education, Gandhiji's Nai Talim And Community Engagement

Syllabus

Work Education, Gandhiji's Nai Talim and Community Engagement

Unit-I: Work and Education

·         Meaning and concept of Work-Significance of work and labour

·         Work and livelihood

·         Work with happiness and satisfaction

·         Work Education: Purpose, social, economic and pedagogical  values of work and craft education

Unit-II: Gandhiji’s Nai Talim

·         Gandhiji's ideas on Education - Basic principles of Nai Talim

·         Experiential learning: Meaning and concept

Unit-III: Community Engagement

·         Community Engagement-School, family and community partnership

·         Government programmes for Education and development of literacy

·         Role of School management committees, Teachers and Headmasters for community engagement.

·         Parent Engagement in School matters

·         Contemporary relevance of Nai Talim, Work Education, Experiential learning and Community Engagement as per National Curriculum Framework (2005), RTE (2009) and NCFTE (2010).

Unit-IV: Models and approaches of Nai Talim

·         Models: Gandhiji, Tagore, and John Dewey

·         Approaches:

-         Constructivism

-         Paulo Friere’s Critical Pedagogy and Dialogic method,

-         Vygotsky,s Social Construction Approach

-         Humanistic approaches for Character-building.

Unit-V: Nai Talim and Field Engagement

·         Connecting Knowledge to life from outside the school

·         Nai Talim and Field Engagement: Community services and its impact

·         Best practices: Local production, Waste management, Water harvesting, participating in Agriculture operations in villages.