This enriching book explores quality education at the grassroots level for disadvantaged children. It evolves and evaluates strategies for the promotion of the overall development of children in the motor, cognitive, language, emotional, social, and moral domains. The methods used revolve around children, with a larger purpose of shaping young minds as opposed to solely enhancing academic skills by relating the subjects of the syllabi. The essence of the book lies in what adults can learn from children while teaching them. Though the book stems from case studies of schools in rural Karnataka, it has implications for effectively providing quality education to children across the nation. It quantitatively evaluates the process of intervention that consists of 20 -25 hours of group work with the school children and qualitatively describes the outcome in terms of promotion of psycho-social development.
Author(s): Malavika Kapur
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 198
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Bridging the Gap between Education and Child Developmental Psychology......Page 33
Backdrop to the Present Work......Page 37
Families of the Children of the Forests......Page 46
Working with Rural School Children......Page 57
Working with the Tribal Children in Ashram Schools......Page 74
An Integrated Approach to the Delivery of Child Mental Health Services......Page 89
Working with Children......Page 112
Orientation Programmes with Teachers......Page 137
Reflections......Page 150
Implications......Page 155
Appendix-I......Page 164
Appendix-II......Page 172
Appendix-III......Page 186
References......Page 194
About the Author......Page 199
