We believe that the right to education and the right to have its full childhood belong to every child in the world and in the country, in which so many millions of children do not have access to any school but are enslaved in hard work right from their early years. We also believe that education should be in- keeping with the psychology of the child – not a burden or a period of boredom, with emphasis on discipline and punishment but a pleasant experience in which the child learns at its own pace and rooted in its own experience, and not that which is imposed by teachers and the education department. We believe that education should lend itself not only to the intellectual growth of the child but also to its moral and social growth to enable the child to be a worthy citizen and equip him/her to face the present day challenges to create a better society..
Adolescent Education for Girls
With globalization tremendous changes are taking place, society is changing at a very fast pase, along with economic growth, socialization in the younger generation has its own impact on the society.
Socialisation has also faced a lot of health and social problems. Women and Child Department found it necessary at this stage to intervene and impact adolescent education to the high school children (girls) in collaboration with the Department the project had educated programme for the high school children in Sulya and Mulky in the month of April. Following were the topics dealt upon. Adolescent health education , Career guidance and Gender sensitivity. About 60 students benefited from this programme.
PADI – Community Awareness
These years Padi stressed a lot on importance of child rights, as there has been an increase in the no. of child abuse, child rape, child harassment cases. A wide spread awareness was given on J.J Act 2000, Child acts and child rights.
This programme was supported by Women and Child Welfare dept.There were programmes also heldon
awareness on importance of education and Child Rights was imparted to Students, Community, Teachers, Panchayat members and the Police Department. An outdoor children’s painting on Environment programme was conducted where the children were made to realize the importance of greenery and parks.
Child Right Awareness
Child abuse, child labour, child trafficking, child rape, kidnapping have been increasingly coming to the notice of the general public and the police, but because of lack of proper awareness on child rights and the J.J.Act neither the Department nor the police or the general public were able to react in a justifying manner to such cases.
As such the children are the ones who are suffering without getting proper justice. Hence wide spread awareness programme were carried out on J.J.Act, Child Rights and Child Acts. One such programme was carried out for the Department,Police Personal, Lawyers and other NGOs. Prof. Ravi Verma Kumar- Senior Lawyer of High Court, DR. H.V. Parshwanath- Deputy Commissioner, Mr. G.V.Hedge- Session Judge of D.K. District, Prof. B.K. Ravindra- Principal,SDM Law College were present for this programme. Similar programmes were also carried out in Bantwal, Belthangady, Sulya, Puttur and Mulki at different dates in the year.
To make people understand and be aware of the hardships that a child labourer or street children under go, an Art/ photo exhibition was held at St.Aloysius College Hall. The Photos and Art exhibited were the collections made by the street children themselves. Hence, this programme was more realistic and original.
PADI – SDMC Trainings
For the last consecutive 3 years Padi has been involved in conducting SDMC (School Development Monitoring Committee) training programmes. This year too the Govt. had introduced a new circular on the recent changes in the SDMC.
Based on this and in collaboration with the dept. SDMC Training were conducted in the month of March 2007 in Belthangady Taluk to be followed with
Training for all the other Taluks of D.K. District. The contents of these trainings were on clarity about the new circular policy, role and responsibilities of SDMC members, SDMC’s relationships with Grama Panchayath.
PADI – Training and Exposure
Under this programme a team of 8 teachers had been to Araville in the month of February 2007 to study Isai Ambalam School Education system so that they could see if the same could be implemented in the D.K. Schools.
This was a very educative exposure. Another Training cum Exposure programme was carried out in Mulky for the
DEd students on Gender Sensitivity, Career Guidance, Adolescent Health Education and the Psychological and Health problems faced by children. 30 students under went this training.
A group of children were taken to the forest for an Exposure and were introduced to the medicinal and herbal plants of the forest. This exposure was to make the children understand the value of the forest and love for nature.
PADI – Primary Education
Creative teaching and child friendly teaching is what is most needed in the process of imparting education for the present generation of children. Children’s reasoning and questioning power has to be encouraged by the teachers.
At the same time teaching has to be more child oriented than teacher oriented. With this in mind 40 Primary
PADI – Aims of Education
Child-Centered and not merely teacher-oriented in its methodology, in planning and in implementation.
Content- oriented to values every lesson and every subject be taught with a value-orientation.
Client-oriented a greater emphasis be given to the education of dalits, tribals and especially to the girls from these two sectors of society.
Community-involvement the families and the communities should be involved in the education process, in the planning of the syllabus to make it relevant to the needs of the community in the execution, in the teaching, the examinations and evaluations.
Culture friendly:-that the education be faithful to the local culture of the children and their communities, to their language, their expressions in art, music and life styles.
TO sustain locally existing human and people oriented values in the primary education process, e.g. tribal and dalit values.
To help the rural teachers to understand and learn skills and new teaching method to improve the teaching and the children’s creativity
To identify local resources and utilize them in the education process
To motivate more and more child-centered and creative activities in primary schools .
To actively involve teachers in the educational process e.g. in the preparation of text books ,and directly influencing the Government Education Policy.
To prepare guidelines, to find out new trends in education and to help the teachers to develop their skills through on-site demonstrations.
To get teachers to share their experience and contribute their ideas among themselves so that they come to know and work with each other in close collaboration.
To motivate and guide the teachers in research hand studies pertaining to rural primary education
To prepare and disseminate learning materials and teaching aids wherever needed in the rural areas.
To document and disseminate information a by promoting field based research and publish literature on social issues through the resource Unit of Media , Press and Communication for Empowerment.
