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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Not ready for school -Rukmini Banerji

Not ready for school -Rukmini Banerji

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published Published on Jan 15, 2020   modified Modified on Jan 15, 2020
-The Indian Express

A reworking of curriculum and activities is urgently needed for the age band from four to eight. ASER 2019 report underlines this

While the importance of good early childhood education has been known for a long time, the draft New Education Policy (released in June 2019) links the “severe learning crisis” to what goes on with young children in India. The voluminous policy document points out that close to five crore children currently in elementary school do not have foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

The draft NEP points out that the major part of this crisis may well be happening before children even enter Std I. The document cites several possible reasons for this. First, many children enter school before age six. This is partly due to the lack of affordable and accessible options for pre-schooling. Therefore, too many children go to Std I with limited exposure to early childhood education. Like with everything else, children from poor families have a double disadvantage — lack of healthcare and nutrition on one side and the absence of a supportive learning environment on the other. Although the anganwadi network across India is huge, by and large, school readiness or early childhood development and education activities have not had high priority in the ICDS system. Private preschools that are mushrooming in urban and rural communities have increased access to preschool but are often designed to be a downward extension of schooling. Thus, they bring in school-like features into the pre-school classroom, rather than developmentally appropriate activities by age and phase.

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The Indian Express, 15 January, 2020, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/education-policy-india-schooling-6216711/


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