Tuesday, March 19, 2024

School education must be in regional language

In India, people get attracted to English medium schools as they think their kids will get world class education, however, they become expert only in following western culture and cannot understand the subject knowledge which needs mastery over English. 

Many private schools have started in cities with speciose buildings, garden, playgrounds with facilities of  pick-up vans and buses. Parents prefer such schools even though fees are quite high comparable college education. Students also feel pride in going to schools as they have special uniforms, attractive school bag and other utilities not available in ordinary schools. They develop superiority complex as they can talk in English. If the parents are uneducated, they do not understand how far the students is progressing. Even in educated families as the medium of conversation is not English, the students find difficulty in mastering this foreign language.

Till the time they learn English, other subjects remain difficult to grasp. As a result, the students lag behind the students learning in ordinary schools where subjects as well as  English are taught in native language.

 Unfortunately, IT, IOT, Robotics and AI developments are in English, hence there is an urgent need of translation of these subjects in regional language as these tools are targeting students through many social media channels and corporate education giants. If India has to become self-reliant then education in regional languages should become compulsory at school level.

Dnyandeep Foundation has initiated training of the advanced IT related courses in Marathi medium at school level and wishes to equip teachers of all Marathi medium schools to have Dnyandeep Mandal, where such training facility for all students can be developed.

Students will be trained to learn and write blogs on various topics in Marathi medium and manage their school website.

A dedicated web portal https://school4all.org has been launched to publish information and activities of such schools. As modern IT resources are essential for all subjects, all the teachers in the school will be given training and info of net resources available in their subjects.

Dnyandeep Mandal will be knoledge and innovation centre for school. As school children are more linked to families, the information can easily percolate to society and needy people.

Thou the plan is ambitious, it needs active cooperation  many teachers, and IT experts fro colleges. Even college student organisations can undertake such extention projects and bparticipate in Dnyandeep project.

 For more information, please visit https://school4all.org and also suggest new ideas and methods for success in this plan.