LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Elementary Education in India:
Minimum Learning Outcomes

N. L. N. Jayanthi
M.A., M.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. (English), Ph.D.

ABSTRACT

All educational programs not only ensure more effective implementation, but also help in building learning capacities at the grassroots for providing quality education to the children all over the country. However, sadly enough, the revelations by ASER (2008) which focused on children's activities related to basic reading, comprehension and arithmetic of the primary school children studying in various rural schools remain a cause of concern to all the educationists at large, in addition to the parent community.

This paper focuses on various factors that are responsible for minimum levels of learning among primary school children studying in rural schools in India. Hence, in order to improve level of learning of children, three things must be given due consideration:
(i) Employing fully motivated people with right attitude and aptitude towards teaching
(ii) Developing them into effective teachers and multi-facilitators and
(iii) Ensuring that the system is able to provide the best possible learning environment to every child.

This paper also suggests that decentralization of planning, decision making and meticulous implementation of government policies in the primary education must be given utmost priority to maximise the learning levels of children studying in primary schools in India.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

N.L.N. Jayanthi, M.A, M.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. (English), Ph.D. (Education)
Associate Professor
Department of Education
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar 608002
Tamilnadu
jayanthinln@yahoo.com
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