INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Of
ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH
on
IMPROVING RURAL EDUCATION
on
10-12 OCTOBER 2005
at
ANGEL MATRICULATION HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL,
THIRUNINRAVUR, NEAR CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU
ABSTRACTS OF THE PAPERS
Role of
ICT for Rural Education
Nachimuthu,K Lecturer & Dr. G. Lokanadha Reddy, Prof & Head, Dept of Education, Periyar University, Salem
Information communication Technology (ICT) can be
defined as tools and applications support through which or by means of which
information is transferred, recorded, edited, stores, manipulated and
disseminated with enormous quantities in the minimum possible time. Explosive growth of technology is fuelling a
new way of teaching tools- CAI, Hypermedia, Multimedia, CD-ROMS, Internet
connections of LAN, WAN, and collaborative software environments. ICT based teaching learning situation
strategies have made this process, a “Two-Way” information flow. These strategies have involved more student
teacher interaction, collaboration between students and interdisciplinary
approaches. That is why,
ICT is seen as a wonderful knowledge media.
The main goal of the integrated approach of improving information and
communication technological (ICT) services for rural and agricultural
development is to enable rural people to increase the community resources they
require to improve their lives. More
than 71% Indian population lives in rural areas. The rural population reached 629 Crores in 1991 from 360 in 1961. On the other hand urban population reached
218 Crores from 79 Crores. It is satisfying to note from the final
results of the 2001 census, that the literacy rate has risen from 52.2% in
1991to 64.4% in 2001. All sections of
society have to be sensitized towards the need for ICT literacy, so that they
can make these contributions towards that end.
The ICT applications can help from agriculture training and community
forestry to veterinary medicine.
Distance
Mode for Training of Rural School Teachers
Literacy is basic for development. If there is no literacy, development
programmes will not be successful. The National Literacy
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Opportunities for Rural
Education
Nachimuthu,K Lecturer, Dept. of Education,
The significance of rural education in modern
societies cannot be overestimated. The crucial need for the people in various
spheres of modern social life (economic, political, social, ethical and others)
has been counter parts of their life.
The problem of education in the rural area was almost completely ignored
by the British as is evidenced in the fact that, even after a hundred and fifty
years of the British rule, 86 per cent of the total Indian population,
including its advanced urban section, still remained illiterate. For
successfully evolving a comprehensive and scientific programme of rural
education a number of problems germane to it have to be resolved. The problems
are i) objectives of education, ii) structure of the
machinery of education, iii) technical and other means for its spread, iv)
finance and personnel. The rural sociologist has to give the most earnest
attention to this fact, while making suggestions for a new system of education
for the rural people. A question will also raise, how
should the school time be adjusted to the exigencies of agricultural and
artisan labour in which not village adults but also youngsters participate? The
following specific roles are undoubtedly accelerate the process of extension of
education and culture among the rural people; they are, School, Library,
Museum, Movie, Radio, Mobile Van and Sport Centres. The principle prerequisites for a successful
fulfillment of the programme of rural education and culture outlined before are
first, the mobilization of the necessary finances and secondly, the creation of
the personnel to man the gigantic venture.
The programme of rural reconstruction should be derived from a strict
sociological analysis of the actual conditions and tendencies of the actually
existing rural society and evaluation of the actual forces at work within it.
Only when all the factors – a comprehensive scientific educational and cultural
plan, a properly elaborated organizational machinery, various modern technical
devices, a large personnel trained in modern knowledge and, finally adequate
financial resources are created, it is possible to liberalized literacy among
the rural people and also to bring treasures of modern knowledge and culture to
them.
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Neeta Kaushik,
Sr. Lecturer & Dr. (Ms.) Prerna Sharma,Sr. Lecturer,Dept. of
Education, VML PG College,Ghaziabad.
Teachers occupy a very unique position in
socio-economic development of any nation. Different countries adopt different
modes for delivery of education programmes. Distance Education being one of the
most important mode occupies the significant place. DE
including print-media as well as electronic media makes its access to our rural
teachers so as to enhance their qualities. Rural teachers often lack access to
primary means of becoming highly qualified. Most of the pre-service as well as
in-service preparation programmes do not emphasize rural teaching and do not
direct prospective teacher towards rural schools, Hence,
programme should be organized so as to enhance rural teacher’s qualities.
Department at Science and Technology (DST) instituted a Science Society
Division (SSD) specifically to intimate an implement programmes and project to
ensure that a fair share of investments
in our science and technology is made available to improve productively and
qualify of life in rural areas. Then,
there is ODL approach for training of rural teacher presenting
on-line/electronic media and print/ sandwich alternative. Integrating media
with distance Education is also a crucial approach. Last but not least rural
teachers should be provided with pre-service and in-service training along with
careful emphasis on using information communication technologies (ICT). Therefore,
it can be concluded of that in view of the spread of communication channels
across the country, the newer opportunities make their access to our rural
teachers so as to enhance their qualities.
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Strategies
to Improve the Performance of Rural Teachers
Neelamegam, Research Scholar
The Education has
long been considered as “Investments in Human Capital” by planning experts. Education helps to building human resources
that are vital for generating and sustaining economic growth. In
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ICT for Rural Education
Ningamma.C.Betsur, Lecturer, DOS in
Education, K.S.Women’s University, Bijapur -586101, Karnataka
The impact of globalization is tremendous, Due to
globalization, the world is undergoing lot of rapid changes, the whole world is
now reduced to a village therefore, and it is referred to a Global Village. The
instruments like WTO, GATT, are covering all aspect of life. Of course,
education has been benefited from globalization, but at the same time it has
posed many challenges to our country because we have to compete with the other
countries of the world. Such challenges can be faced, only with the appropriate
and up to date information and knowledge, Hence the need of the hour is to
prepare knowledge based society. The information and communication technologies
ICT would definitely help us achieving this task. But, this can helps, only
when the whole country i.e., all sections of the society progress. That means, both urban and rural parts of
ICT
for Rural Education
Nirmala Sundara
Raj, (Sr.) Ph. D Scholar, St. Xavier’s
Now Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been playing an
important role for every section of the society. Its impact is noticed in all
walls of life and educational institutions are no exception in it. Educational
institutions are functioning under constantly changing environment and face a
variety of computer changes life information explosion. IT revolution and
network evolution offer a wide range of opportunities, which could provide
solutions to some of these major changes. ICT components such as CAI, E-mail,
IRC, Multimedia, WWW, Video Conference, E-learning and M-learning are used in
Rural Education. The students can use components in formal and informal
learning. Multimedia can be used for effective learning. The students and the
teachers can use websites for learning. The digital learning and virtual
learning will make the students as active and creative. Thus the ICT is
influencing the Rural Education.
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Nisha Pandharkar,
Principal,
Mahatma Gandhiji said that
“ India will not progress economically, Educationally and Socially unless rural
people are empowered through education” Even after 58 years of independence,
India finds significance in the words of father of nation in spite of the
technological advancement. The world today is passing through a revolution. The
slogan of this worldwide revolution is development and most nations today are
committed to growth. Their aspirations are no longer earth bound, but, extended
to the exploration of outer space and possibly even to others planets as well.
This universal quest for forward movement is fired by rising aspirations for
economic, social, political and educational progress, and it is based upon
optimistic conviction that man, in this century of science can move forward by
leaps instead of steps. This being a sign of world progress, how do our rural school function today? What is the quality of
elementary education offered to our children? What is the level of academic achievement
of our elementary school children? An attempt has been made in the paper to
find out answers to some of these fundamental questions.
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Performance of Rural
Teachers
Nishit. V. Davada,
Lecturer,
On the basis of the analysis, it can be concluded
that rural teachers have lowest environmental awareness as compared to urban
teachers. Rural teacher do not fulfil all the norms of excellent quality education that
may bring many academic and social problems.
Teaching is a dynamic and complex process. The teacher has to deal with this teaching
task with a very intelligently. The
rural area’s teacher’s performance is very lack in the point like teacher’s movement,
body language, speech pattern, focusing, interaction style, time management
etc. The performance of rural teachers
must be improved, as it is very harmful to the nation as well as the
development of our society. They have to
develop certain desirable behaviours, so that our new generation may create
history in any sector in the world. As
the teaching is a dynamic and complex process.
The teaching process is a challenging one. The teacher has to deal with this with this
teaching task both as an artist and scientist.
In view point of dressing style, rural teacher should be in a very good
and very systematic dress,so
that they can change the life style of the student living in rural area. Rural teachers should be aware of latest
technology as well as latest method sot that they make the student understand
the point of view. If teachers will
arrange weekly, monthly, quarterly or terminal test, then they can draw the
attention of the students towards their mistake. The outcomes of this study are at least a
small pointer in the direction of improving of teachers’ performance in rural
are. Provided efforts are made in the
right direction to improve their performance.
Real teaching occurs when teachers feels that
education is the strength of nation and teachers are its life-blood. Proper training programme and some strict rules
should be apply for them to follow and to develop
desirable qualities in them.
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