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Unit 5 PDF
Unit 5 PDF
5.1 INTRODUCTION
How can educational opportunity be improved in our country? How can the poor
and marginalised children get quality education? How will the opportunity for
education matter to their future life prospects and to the development of societies
in which they live? The substance of education policies revolves around addressing
these type of challenging questions and debates. Education policies also focus on
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Philosophy of the Indian This Unit is a discussion on Education Commissions and Policies on education in
Constitution
Independent India. The Unit examines the debates on education and enables us
to understand the States’ role in education, State education policy and the current
challenges in State policy. It is an attempt to understand the major initiatives
undertaken to achieve the goals of equity, equality and quality in education and
analyse the constraints in the achievement of these goals.
5.2 OBJECTIVES
After going through this Unit, you will be able to:
understand the provisions for the development of elementary education in
India;
correlate the recommendations and actions for elementary education;
find out the problems in implementation of various programmes;
elaborate the State policy in achieving the goals of education for all;
evaluate the effectiveness of various programmes in achieving the goals of
equity, equality and quality; and
suggest effective ways of achieving the goal of universalisation of elementary
education especially in the context of RTE, 2009.
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3) Why was the National Knowledge Commission constituted? Critically
discuss its major recommendations with regard to privatisation of school
education.
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