Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:37 am Post subject: AINAA- let's work for Value Education!
Hello Navodayans,
I think we need to introduce value education in our JNV to make education in JNVS value based. I have come across Jeevan Vidya through my brother Babloo, which appears to me as a potent source in this direction. I have also participated in a JV shivir at IIT Kanpur in September this year. The best thing that I found about JV is that it puts everything in the form of proposition and asks us to verify at the level of our natural acceptance rather than taking things for granted. Another good thing that I found was that it talks very clearly and confidently about relationship which is the major source of problems in our navodaya family particularly in teacher-students relationship. So I think at this stage we need to give importance to value education which could strengthen relationship in our nvs family. And if it starts from the top, it will seep to the bottom making nvs a close knit family.
In the GT at JNV Katihar in Patna region last year, we invited Pawan Gupta ji from SIDH, Mussoorie. He is a leading social thinker plus an alumnus from IIT Delhi, had spoken about Jeevan Vidya and Mr. Nageshwar Rao, Deputy Commissioner Patna region was highly impressed by it. In the Hyderabad Principal conference too, we had a session on JV and I was called up by Deputy Commissioner and I had met the Director IIIT Hyderabad, Prof. Rajeev Sangal in that regard on behalf of AINAA. At IIIT Hyderabad, a full fledged course is running on Value Education through JV.
I was in touch with the Deputy Commissioner Bhopal region over sending students from his region for techkrit at IITK going to be organised from 12th to 15th of feb. Recently, my friend Kumar Sambhav happend to visit Bhopal and meet him on my behalf. Along with him was Mr. Dheerendra Chaturvedi, former district education officer of Bhopal. Mr. Manoj Jhalani, an alumus of IITK and the present Secretary of Education, MP was also in touch. In the meeting it was agreed to conduct a value education workshop based on jeevan vidya for about 40 principals and teachers of NVS Bhopal region at a place called Amarkantak in distt Anup pur. Let me mention here the Amarkantak is the place of origin of the river Rewa(Narmada) and Sone, and this place is known for it's natural serenity. If you have any querry, you can write here, mail to me or call me on my mobile.
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:59 am Post subject: An Excerpt from the President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s address!
Hi All,
An Excerpt from the former President’s address-
Quote:
Social development in difficult areas: Social-minded people may be enabled to start educational, sports complexes and healthcare institutions in every difficult area in the country. I would like to share the salient features of a typical model that has made a significant impact on social development.
Jeevan Vidya experience: Jeevan Vidya is being practiced by Prof Ganesh
Bagaria, IIT, Kanpur, Prof Rajeev Sangal, Director IIIT (Hyderabad) and their teams. This scheme is concerned about addressing the basic causes of major problems of violence, corruption, exploitation, domination, terrorism and war. It has been found that violent and anti-social behaviour, unless dealt with care and with professionalism, could aggravate the extreme behaviour.
Jeevan Vidya develops tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty in human conduct by enabling self-knowledge that understands harmony in the self and in the entire existence. The academicians could bring about marked change even among the inmates of jails through the use of these techniques.
Jeevan Vidya is a 'teachable human value based skill' that can address inherent conflicts within the mind of the individual, within families, in organizations and in public life. Inner conflict is the very essence of violence. For example, with the skills imparted, it would be possible to reduce the overall period of secondary education from 25,000 hours of teaching to 20,000 hours, since the children become more responsible and productivity conscious. These experiments can be outreached to influence many people by developing networks using ICT through our educational system, that needs to pay increasing attention to this aspect of human development.
This process of imparting self-knowledge would promote a learning atmosphere, where this whole movement of inquiry into knowledge, into oneself, into the possibility of something beyond knowledge would bring about naturally a psychological revolution. From this comes inevitably a totally different order in human relationship and therefore society as a whole. The intelligent understanding of this process itself can bring about a profound change in the consciousness of mankind.
Murali from JNV Medak and Avnish from JNV Patna has attended JV workshop recently.
Murali attended the workshop since 23rd Jan to the concluding day @ IIT Hyderabad. Avnish (bachcha) attended the workshop since 4th Feb to the concluding day (Today) at Kanpur.
Both of them appeared quite happy and enthused by the workshop. I must thanks Murali and Avnish for being so much sincere in such activities.
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attended the workshop since 4th Feb to the concluding day (Today) at Kanpur.