Nai Talim
Basic Education or Nai Talim is a 1937 designed by Mahatma Gandhi educational concept, which can be translated with basic education for all. The concept founded in his experience of the British education system. He saw the Indian children culturally alienated and criticized career thinking, contempt of manual labor, the emergence of a new elite and the growing industrialization and urbanization.
The three pillars of Gandhi's pedagogy are the life, the social and the holistic education. Education is for Gandhi the ' moral development of personality ', a process that continues throughout life.
Learning by activity
The action goal of education Gandhi can be described by the term learning through activity. The " Basic Education " should consider the following aspects:
- 7 years primary education for all children 7-14 years
- Connection of the educational process with the mediation of a craft that is in a direct relation to the social, economic and natural environment of the student. The production should contribute to cover the costs.
- Delivery of instruction in their native language. Hindi and English should be learned.
- Introduction of coeducation: Boys and girls should be taught together.
- All life should take place in the village: The inclusion of the entire village in the school work, the alienated labor and social structures to be rebuilt
- Struggle against illiteracy
- Harijans and other weak layers should be particularly encouraged
Implementation after 1947
After 1947, various activities have been developed to implement the Basic Education as Thakkar Bapa at the Teacher Training College Bapagram, 17 km from Bangalore. Until the mid- eighties seeped Numerous efforts. Critics argue that this concept is applied to the long term, the country would need a much faster development.
Basic Education today
Given the rapid economic development of India, the economic week, with a but widening social gap between the box, the question of the meaning of " Basic Education " in Indian society provides new: now in terms of empowerment to strengthen children. For the purposes of sociology at Emil Durkheim Basic Education can contribute to the integration of society, especially Mahatma Gandhi emphasized the values in terms of personality development. The great importance of a values -forming approach of Basic Education had the Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen, highlighted at a conference in Edinburgh.
Quote
"The principal idea is to impart the whole education of the body, mind and soul through the handicraft did is taught to the children. "