Thursday 24 September 2015

Social Rights in Formal education

After joining as a member of the Mission One World under supervision of Sri Malay Roy, Principal, Mission Bodhoday International, Howrah, I find the education strategies need to be reformed. This is a Pre-primary to Primary educational institution. The books as written for novice regarding literature, science or humanities are conventional way and have used the common language & expression. Strictly speaking all these books need to reform in a new dimension.

It is not the concept all old books are completely rotten and kick them off from bag. Thrives always learn from rest of the world including himself.

In a greater paradigm, I feel the only formal education is not enough for the child as well as the family. During working in the Institution, I feel there are several parameters which we have to overcome to reform our education system as well as our society. This process can be initiated through the formal education.

Dr. Ambedkar dreamt about social justice and equality of status and opportunity among all citizens irrespective of religion and race. Though Right to Education has enacted from 2009. After 68 year of Independence, discouraging aspect is that compared to 57.39 % boys, 60.39 % girls drop out by the time they reach an upper primary level and against 78.40 % boys, 81.72 % girls drop out by the time they reach secondary level as per R. Pandita; Enrolment & Dropout percentage among boys & girls up to secondary level in India: A comparative study; International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences; 8(2) (2015) 123-124. This huge amount of drop out carries enormous amount of inability of doing work for the nation and they themselves are losing the opportunities. Above statistics enunciates that the female child drop out is rather greater than the male child drop out.

The basic psychology works inside her family is what exactly a girl do after being educated - she have to abide by the family for rest of her life. As everyone knows the open secret of the future of the girl, why shall we pay to educate her? This psychology is not bound to a poor family but it also belongs to any financially stable family. If the family is too poor, the girl has to stop her education to take care of her paralysed grandparents. And there is no boundary condition for the male child of same age group.            

Apart from that an enormous proliferation of crime take place throughout the nation. Their target people are only woman and children. Very often it is seen, an woman or a teenage girl is missing and after through investigation by the administration, it is found that they had stumbled on the trap. Even they don't know that Danger comes from the safest side.

It is also my observation that crimes are occured with innocence. Innocence is a basic characteristic of human mind. So it is inevitable that they are unknown about their rights. Criminal mind take the loopholes here and crime took place. Due to the same characteristics they even make unaware the Administration. Administration always says somehow the 'Rights' are unknown to our people. But what will be the appreciable way to communicate their 'Rights' - Silence.

Considering all the above condition, I have found a resolution that to incorporate the Constitutional rights and Human rights to our formal education system upto secondary level. It will be a shift of paradigm in our education system. People should know their social rights, they need to learn the safety and security of themselves and their surroundings. So, it is the top priority to incorporate social rights, safety as well as impact of the above into public health as a part of secondary level syllabus. It will be a part of the main stream examination. As a result, millions of families will learn the safety, social security, social rights and else.

Government is the almighty to any nation. If the Govt. take initiation to incorporate this idea in its education system, people will trust and respect the Govt. as "Strength respects the Strength".