NEP position paper: 10 bag-less days a year recommended for students
The Hindu
Paper on value education also says there should be ‘seva diwas’ and ‘anubhav diwas’ for schoolchildren in Karnataka
Ten bag-less days a year have been recommended for students of Classes VI to VIII by experts in the position paper on value education. In addition, ‘seva diwas’ for Classes VI onwards and an ‘anubhav diwas’, wherein children visit places where social workers are helping the needy, have also been recommended.
As part of the National Education Policy (NEP)-2020 implementation in the State, 26 focus groups have been formed to write position papers which will provide direction for creating the State Curriculum Framework.
The 10-member value education focus group is part of the five, cross cutting themes applicable to 12 curricular topics.
The paper says during the bag-less days, students will intern with local vocational experts such as carpenters, gardeners, potters, artists, and others.
For ‘seva diwas’, various types of activities can be planned, like cleaning the school, upkeep of school garden, decorating the school premises, cleaning of a locality, decorating public places, helping the needy in the locality, teaching in slums, and others, the paper says.
Also, one day can be used as ‘anubhav diwas’, where children visit places of care where social workers are helping the needy, such as an orphanage, an old-age home, a school for the blind, and others.
‘Anubhav diwas’ can also be used to give an experience of various local traditions and cultural aspects, such as a puppet show, visit to a heritage site of the locality, a Janapada centre, and the like, it says.