Title:
Exploring mechanisms to improve home–school links : early childhood education in rural India
Authors:
Dasgupta, C.I.
Year:
2006
Serial number:
107
Journal:
Early Childhood Matters
Pages:
33
-
35
ISSN:
1387-9553
Language:
eng
Subject:
Education, Science and Technology
Keywords:
children
,
education
,
indigenous peoples
Abstract:
The discussion in this article is based on the wider context of the experience of the People’s Institute for Development and Training (pidt) over many years in organising non-formal schools in rural India.
It also takes into account a study that PIDT did in collaboration with the Bernard van Leer Foundation, “Acculturation of the child to schooling – a multiethnic study”. Though the study mostly dealt with
primary school-ready children in non-formal education (NFE2) schools between the ages of 6 and 14, it provided useful insights into how pre-school education should meet children’s developmental needs, thus opening villages to possibilities for integration and change without compromising indigenous values and skills that have sustained them so far.
Organization:
Bernard van Leer Foundation
Country:
India
Region:
South Asia
Category:
Practice
Right:
© 2006 Bernard van Leer Foundation
Document type:
E-article
File:
124180.pdf