A Social Development Saga : India Uttar Pradesh Basic Education and India District Primary Education Projects
The Uttar Pradesh (UP) Basic Education Pilot Project and the national India District Primary Education Project exemplify good social development practices. The pilot project in UP to assist girls to achieve better education proved so successful tha...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/03/2820537/social-development-saga-india-uttar-pradesh-basic-education-india-district-primary-education-projects http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11394 |
| Summary: | The Uttar Pradesh (UP) Basic Education
Pilot Project and the national India District Primary
Education Project exemplify good social development
practices. The pilot project in UP to assist girls to
achieve better education proved so successful that it was
scaled up to a national project. The guiding principle of
both projects is to improve education by building capacity
at the community level. preparation. Surveys and focus
group discussions identified a wide-range of educational
issues at the village level. Problems ranged from caste
discrimination to debate on the language of instruction to
the impact of weather on educational opportunities. In some
villages, girls were not attending school because of their
responsibility to care for younger siblings. In other
places, the issue was girls' safety. Lessons learned
included the following: 1) Community support for education
is a central element of a successful school development
program. 2) Community implementation is a cost-effective way
to achieve large-scale school construction. 3) Block
Resource Centers and Cluster Resource Centers can serve as
effective mechanisms to provide recurrent in-service
training and school-based professional support for teachers.
4) Improving the quality of education and strengthening
institutional capacity are long-term processes. 5)
Micro-planning is necessary to assess the need for new
schools and additional classrooms and teachers. |
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