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Enhancement of GER Possibilities. Bageshwar District. Historical Background. Earliest documentation on education is the Traill report of 1823 which says that almost no public institutions of nature of schools. Education confined to upper classes.
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Enhancement of GER Possibilities Bageshwar District
Historical Background • Earliest documentation on education is the Traill report of 1823 which says that almost no public institutions of nature of schools. Education confined to upper classes. • This education is in form of private tution which Brahmins impart. • 1840 first school in Srinagar. Cost of school was borne by unclaimed property fund. • By 1857 some schools established but "still there must have been considerable amount of private instruction”.
Historical Background • Thornton report shows 121 schools which are based in private dwellings or the houses of teachers of whom 54 taught gratuitously. • 1857 Kumon department of public instruction argued "Attendance is very irregular as the aid boys can give in farm and house hold is so valuable as to be with difficulty dispensed with." • It was noted that " The spread of education has done much to under mine the influence of brahmins which was formally absolute in the province. • The spread of village schools or Halka Bandi schools noted.
Current Situation • According to 2001 census Bageshwar town had a population of 7803. The district population 2,49,462. • The town had a high literacy rate of 75% higher than national average of 59.5%. • Male 52% and female 42% literacy rate. • The figures for rest of the district not available but a good literacy rate is indicated by other sources. • The district has one government college which also has an IGNOU study centre.
The Practice of Education • The emphasis on private tutions from earlier times indicates a favourable situation for one to one teaching learning process. • The fact that the district is poorly connected by road or telephone network makes it imperative that one to one peer learning models be tried out. • The effort towards increasing GER will have to follow such kind of an approach. • Our argument is strengthened by the peculiar practices of communities like the Bhotiya who developed a one to one partnership trading pattern where each community member dealt induvidually with a trader from another community.
Our Experiment • With the help of Gujarat Management Institute we setup an experiment on multi cultural education in some villages of Bageshwar. • Two students each were placed in the villages. They had to live with families as a family member and create study spaces for themselves.
Our Experiment • These students came from different cultural backgrounds and for most of them staying in a remote village were first time experience. The idea was to find out how the community and the prospective IGNOU students who went with us responded to this learning experience.
