Title: Community-based Education at Rishi Valley
1Community-based Education at Rishi Valley
- Full Economic Citizenship
- Roundtable on Innovations in Education
- RISHI VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
(RIVER) - KRISHNAMURTI FOUNDATION INDIA
2Why is the system failing?
- Centralised curriculum
- Frustrated teacher
- Uninteresting classrooms
- Community losing faith
3Child in the drivers seat
4Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful
support structures Community involvement - A
school free of fear
5Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful
support structures Community involvement - A
school free of fear
6Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful
support structures Community involvement - A
school free of fear
7Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful
support structures Community involvement - A
school free of fear
8Teachers formulating curriculum - Meaningful
support structures Community involvement - A
school free of fear
9Learning Ladder
- Sense of achievement
- Self paced learning
- Self driven learner
10Space and time management
- Most rural schools multigrade by default
- RIVER model multigrade / multilevel by design
- dynamic grouping
- Grade, gender and ability not the criteria
11Community Ownership
- Community curriculum
- Mothers stories
- Traditional folk arts
- Mothers committees
- Monitoring childrens progress
- Organising mid-day meals
12Enriching village commons
- Barren wastelands converted into green public
spaces - Used variously for herbal gardens, water
harvesting, solar energy - Provides for fuel and fodder needs
13Cost effective model
- 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
1416 to thousands of schools
15The first challenge
- 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
16Challenges in the formal sector
- Problem
- Cynicism of teachers
- Apathy of bureaucracy
- Resistance from the textbook lobby
- Strategies
- Designers workshops
- Setting up 36 model schools
- On-the-job support
- Achievement
- Scaling up in phases 36 to 280 to 10000
schools
17Reaching out to remote socio-linguistic
minorities
18Regions in India practicing the RIVER model
19Reaching other developing countries
- RIVER- Ethiopia Collaboration
- Several potential partnerships-Peru,
Pakistan,China
20Replicating strategy moving in partnerships
- 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
21Capacity building
- Range of training programmes
- Hands-on training
- On-the-job support and monitoring
- Comprehensive training materials teachers
manuals, trainers modules, training films
22Global Development Network awardMost innovate
development project
- GDN criteria
- Creativity/innovativeness
- Social impact
- Cost performance
- Replicability
- Capacity building
23VISION
- Building regional resource groups
- Consolidate research base through action research
- Linkage with Universities-Metz, Regensburg,
- Harvard London
- Creating a network of networks
24Innovation
- Putting the child in the drivers 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
Recap
25Social impact
- 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
Recap
26Cost performance
- 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
Recap
27Capacity building
- Experiential training
- On-the-job support and monitoring
- Comprehensive training materials
Recap
28Replicability
- From partnership to ownership
- Trans-creation of materials
- Setting up model schools
- Scaling up in phases
- Creating a critical mass
Recap
29Vision
- Joyful childhood - creative teachers - strong
networks - Preserve the self-sustaining, self-replicating,
self-evolving nature of the RIVER model
Recap
30Thank you for your attention