Recent Activity in Education Community

Consolidated Reply: Responding to the Learning and Developmental Needs of Out of School Adolescents - Experiences, Examples. Issue date 10 March 2011 in Education Community, Gender Community
Shares interventions meant to facilitate Learning and Development of Adolescent Persons, also highlights Challenges, Policy Gaps, and makes suggestions to accelerate work with adolescents
Discussion: Examining Child Centered Pedagogy. Reply by 28 December 2010 in Education Community
Final summary that initiates critical examination of child centered education to support organizations to refine their underlying principles and processes relating to education of children as well as teachers
Consolidated Reply: Children's Right for Admission in Age Appropriate Classes and the Challenges of Special Training - Examples, Advice. Issue date 21 December 2010 in Education Community
Discuss the preparations and capacities required for the trainers
Discussion: Challenges of In-Service TeacherEducation and Possible Coping Strategies. Reply by 24 September 2010 in Education Community
Discusses systems, mechanisms and modalities to implement quality in-service teacher training, and continuous academic support through various government and alternate structures in order to meet child-friendly to feed into the proposed conference in Bhubaneswar on In service Teacher Training and facilitate review of the efforts and available opportunities as well as quality of the in-service teacher development

About the Education Community

  1. To build awareness, create thoughts, generate discussions, create data base, bring global research to India on issues in education, build an information base and overall create a virtual and physical platform for debate, exchange of views and building momentum around identified themes;
  2. To create a forum for advocacy with the stakeholders – more importantly with the government to support effective Educational policies and actions   
  3. To help education leaders and leading education institutions to understand and address some of the important and complex challenges in education in India by sharing  experiences, knowledge and information with one another and with other key education contacts, such as the UN network and other members of the development community.
  4. To address issues that highlight the shortcomings of the present system in functioning as a powerful instrument of social change and experiments, innovations, trials and attempts being made to redesign it for the purpose..

The Objectives:

  • Provide a platform for debate, exchange of views and experiences on educational issues
  • Disseminate information and knowledge on critical educational concerns
  • Create forum for advocacy to build momentum around education
  • Support robust and effective systems for delivery of quality and equitable education
  • Promote networking and collaboration amongst Educational stakeholders.

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Resource Team

Ms. Shubhangi Sharma, PhD, National Professional on RTE &TED & Resource Person, Education Community