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Community-based Education at Rishi Valley

Community-based Education at Rishi Valley. Full Economic Citizenship Roundtable on Innovations in Education RISHI VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (RIVER) KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION INDIA. Centralised curriculum Frustrated teacher Uninteresting classrooms Community losing faith.

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Community-based Education at Rishi Valley

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  1. Community-based Education at Rishi Valley Full Economic Citizenship Roundtable on Innovations in Education RISHI VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (RIVER) KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION INDIA

  2. Centralised curriculum • Frustrated teacher • Uninteresting classrooms • Community losing faith Why is the system failing?

  3. Child in the driver’s seat

  4. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures Community involvement - A school free of fear

  5. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures Community involvement - A school free of fear

  6. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures Community involvement - A school free of fear

  7. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures Community involvement - A school free of fear

  8. Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful support structures Community involvement - A school free of fear

  9. Sense of achievement • Self paced learning • Self driven learner Learning Ladder

  10. Most ruralschools –multigrade by default • RIVER model – multigrade / multilevel by design • dynamic grouping • Grade, gender and ability – not the criteria Space and time management

  11. Community curriculum • Mothers’ stories • Traditional folk arts • Mothers’ committees • Monitoring children’s progress • Organising mid-day meals Community Ownership

  12. Barren wastelands converted into green public spaces • Used variously for herbal gardens, water harvesting, solar energy • Provides for fuel and fodder needs Enriching village commons

  13. Design • single-room, single-teacher • Teaching - learning materials • “School-in-a-box” • Cost of building and establishment – Rs.1,50,000 • Cost of running – Rs.15,000 per month Cost effective model

  14. HOW? 16 to thousands of schools

  15. Problem • Backward region • Mainstreaming girl child labourers Strategy • Creating resource group • Setting up 200 learning centres Achievement • 96.8% of the girls achieved minimum levels of learning The first challenge

  16. Problem • Cynicism of teachers • Apathy of bureaucracy • Resistance from the textbook lobby Strategies • Designer’s workshops • Setting up 36 model schools • On-the-job support Achievement • Scaling up in phases – 36 to 280 to 10’000 schools Challenges in the formal sector

  17. Reaching out to remote socio-linguistic minorities

  18. Regions in India practicing the RIVER model

  19. RIVER- Ethiopia Collaboration • Several potential partnerships-Peru, Pakistan,China Reaching other developing countries

  20. “Trans-creation” of materials • Setting up model schools • Scaling up in phases • Putting in place decentralised support structures • Transparent evaluation mechanisms • Creating a critical mass of stakeholders Replicating strategy moving in partnerships

  21. Range of training programmes • Hands-on training • On-the-job support and monitoring • Comprehensive training materials – teachers’ manuals, trainers’ modules, training films Capacity building

  22. GDN criteria • Creativity/innovativeness • Social impact • Cost performance • Replicability • Capacity building Global Development Network award“Most innovate development project ”

  23. Building regional resource groups • Consolidate research base through action research • Linkage with Universities-Metz, Regensburg, Harvard & London • Creating a network of networks VISION

  24. Putting the child in the driver’s seat • Involving teacher and community in creating local-specific curriculum • Designing dynamic space and time management for schools • Making school as a community resource centre Innovation Recap

  25. Joyful learning leading to negligible dropout rates • Significant decrease in child labour in the region • Enrichment of village commons • Improvement in quality of life of the community Social impact Recap

  26. Sustainable design • single room, single teacher • Teaching learning material • comprehensive package for the whole school • Rs.1,50,000 to set up a school • Rs.15,000 a month to run the school Cost performance Recap

  27. Experiential training • On-the-job support and monitoring • Comprehensive training materials Capacity building Recap

  28. From partnership to ownership • “Trans-creation” of materials • Setting up model schools • Scaling up in phases • Creating a critical mass Replicability Recap

  29. Joyful childhood - creative teachers - strong networks • Preserve the self-sustaining, self-replicating, self-evolving nature of the RIVER model Vision Recap

  30. Thank you for your attention

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