Tell about Indian Education System

The government runs its own schools in land and buildings owned by the government and paying the staff from its own resources.

These are generally known as government schools. The fees are quite low in such schools.

Then there are privately owned schools with their own land and buildings.

Here the fees are high and the teachers are paid by the management. Such schools mostly cater to the urban middle class families.

Here the fees are high and the teachers are paid by the management. Such schools mostly cater to the urban middle class families.

The third kind consists of schools that are provided grant-in-aid by the government, though the school was started by a private agency in their own land and buildings.

The third kind consists of schools that are provided grant-in-aid by the government, though the school was started by a private agency in their own land and buildings.

The grant-in-aid is meant to help reduce the fees and make it possible for poor families to send their children.

In some states like Kerala, these schools are very similar to government schools since the teachers are paid by the government and the fees are the same as in government schools.

The state of Kerala, a small state in the South Western coast of India, has been different from the rest of the country in many ways for the last few decades.

It has, for instance, the highest literacy rate among all states, and was declared the first fully literate state about a decade back.

Life expectancy, both male and female, is very high, close to that of the developed world.

Other parameters such as fertility rate, infant and child mortality are among the best in the country, if

The total fertility rate has been below the replacement rate of 2.1 for the last two decades. Probably as a side-effect of economic and social development

suicide rates and alcoholism are also very high. Government policies also have been very different from the rest of the country

leading to the development model followed in Kerala, with high expenditure in education and welfare, coming to be known as the “Kerala Model“ among economists.

Kerala has also always shown interest in trying out ways of improving its school education system.

Every time the NCERT came up with new ideas, it was Kerala that tried it out first.

The state experimented with the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) with gusto, though there was opposition to it from various quarters, and even took it beyond primary classes.

The state was the first in the country to move from the traditional behaviorist way of teaching to a social constructivist paradigm.

It was mentioned in the National Curriculum Framework of NCERT in the year 2000, and Kerala started trying it out the next year.

The transaction in the classroom and the evaluation methodology were changed. Instead of direct questions that could be answered only through memorizing the lessons, indirect questions and open ended questions were included so that the student needed to think before answering, and the answers could be subjective to some extent.

This meant that the students had to digest what they studied and had to be able to use their knowledge in a specific situation to answer the questions.

At the same time, the new method took away a lot of pressure and the children began to find examinations interesting and enjoyable instead of being stressful.

At present, the CBSE also has implemented CCE, but in a more flexible manner.