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Community based initiatives in Primary Education Madhya Pradesh

September 1998

  The study sought to assess the initiatives from the prospective of

  • Urgency in universalising access to primary schooling.
  • Sensitivity to the habitation pattern of tribal communities M.P. .
  • Community participation.
  • Central Role to Gram Panchayats in Primary Education .
  • Organic linkage between teacher and community possibility of restoration of community-atreach role of teacher.
  • Ability to address ills of teacher observations and accountability to community.
  • Academic Process : teacher training, teaching learning materials, transactional process, learners response.
  • School effectiveness in campaign with the formal primary school.
  • Cost effectiveness.
  • Contribution to creation of Rights-based discourse on primary education.
  • Trigger to institutional Reforms in the primary education sector.

It focuses on the districts of Shahdol and Guna. The study summarises that these schools "function effectively in general and have contributed positively in providing access to the disadvantaged and marginalised groups. The quality aspects, as reflected in terms of transaction process and children's learning leafless, are satisfactory. These initiatives have also given a new meaning to decentralization and community involvement by rising above the tokenism and transferring the initiatives in their hands".

"…If nurtured properly, this can play a vital role in changing the face of primary education sector radically in the context of Madhya Pradesh".