Education and Eradication of Poverty
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This power point presentation discusses education and eradication of poverty. It defines poverty and identifies its key causes as unemployment, population explosion, illiteracy, and defective planning. It states that education can help decrease poverty by providing vocational skills. Illiteracy contributes to poverty by limiting people's ability to improve their economic status. The presentation outlines government efforts to abolish rural poverty through initiatives that increase employment, provide basic facilities and services, and promote self-employment and adult education. It emphasizes that education is key to mobilizing people's potential for development and argues that compulsory primary education, non-formal education, and developing scientific attitudes can help eradicate poverty.
Education and Eradication of Poverty
- 1. Power point presentation EDUCATION AND ERADICATION OF POVERTY Dr. S. Prakash Principal Thiagarajar College of Preceptors Madurai
- 2. MEANING OF POVERTY • Poverty is defined as the state in which people have neither money nor property and struggle to meet their basic requirements of daily life.
- 3. CAUSES OF POVERTY Unemployment Population explosion Illiteracy Defective planning
- 4. • Poverty is intimately related to the problem of unemployment. • Poverty could be decreased to the extent that we provide right type to education and develop appropriate productive skills through vocational education programmes and socially useful courses.
- 5. POPULATION EXPLOSION • Rapid increase in population is also one of the important factors contributing to poverty.
- 6. ILLITERACY • Illiteracy and superstitions also interfere in the abolition of poverty. • Due to illiteracy, people do not have the capacity to raise their economy status. • Illiteracy results in the potentials of our youths in the age group of 15 to 35, to go as a waste as it could not profitably be used for national development.
- 7. DEFECTIVE PLANNING • As many a time, developmental plans are prepared, having the interests of urban people upper most in mind, rural people get neglected. • As India consists of thousands of tiny villages, Gandhiji advocated the concept of “ grama fajya”. That is why people at present, insist on ‘Decentralised planning’.
- 8. CAUSES FOR INTENSE RURAL POVERTY • As most of the rural people are engaged in agriculture, and that too as landless labourers, they do not have any work for 6 months in a year. • In the absence of basic requirements of life. • People living in villages, due to their illiteracy and ignorance could not undertake any other profitable self occupations,
- 9. • Those migrate to urban centres ,have to live in ‘slums’ and lead a pitiable life. • The government does not impose any restrictions on fixing the prices of urban produce where as agricultural produce are to be sold only at government fixed prices, which are highly unremunerative for the agriculturists.
- 10. • Due to migration of villagers in large numbers to urban centres, there is an acute shortage in the availability of skilled labourers to be hired for agricultural operations. • Urban employees, through the trade unions of the organised sector are able to bargain for better remuneration, commensurate to the price-rise due to inflation.
- 11. GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO ABOLISH RURAL POVERTY
- 12. • For the upliftment of the villages, government has initiated measures on a war footing to provide for basic facilities like protected drinking water supply, availability of electric power, proper road facilities, educational and medical facilities.
- 13. • Government is offering many concessions for establishing new industries in rural areas so as to increase the employment opportunities of the rural poor.
- 15. Self employment
- 17. EDUCATION AND ERADICATION OF POVERTY • Education is the root cause in the mobilisation of people’s potentials for national developmental projects and economic growth. That is why education is considered as the process of ‘human resource development’.
- 18. COMPULSORY EDUCATION • Today “ compulsory primary education to all “ is our slogan which forms a constitutional right for the people. • Providing universe primary education for all those in the age group of 8 to 14 , should have been achieved in our country by 1960 itself ; but this goal could not be fulfilled even today , 60 years after Indian independence.
- 19. NON – FORMAL EDUCATION • Importance of non – formal education could be well understood as they have been emphasised by the kothari education commission of 1968 and the national policy of education, 1986. • Even our five year plans, important role has been assigned to non – formal education. • Many modern strategies like ‘ open schools ‘ , ‘correspondence education ‘ , ‘distance education’ etc. have been adopted today in non – formal education. • It has popularised the slogans ‘ you can learn at any stage’ , ‘ learn what you like’ , ‘learn while you earn’ , ‘learn during your lesiure’ etc.
- 21. Teachers participating in the ‘ adult education programmes ‘ are given special training in methods of instruction and provided with monetary incentive. Today school and college students are also made to participate in adult education programmes and the slogan ‘ each one, teach one ‘ is made popular.
- 22. To participate in the technological revolution of the present – day society, every one should have scientific out – look which also helps to strengthen democratic tendencies, eradicate prejudices and intolerance that are responsible for various types of conflicts in the country.
- 23. IMPORTANT ATTRIBUTES OF SCIENTIFIC ATTITUDES ARE…. Open – mindedness. Unbiased judgement. Objective analysis of all the available data. Respecting other’s points of view. Suspending judgement in the face of inadequacy of available data. Belief in science that it will do good to the humanity. Belief in cause and effect relationship. Following systematic standardised procedure in the investigation of any problem. scientific attitude is indespensible for individual and national growth.
- 24. MODERNIZATION • Taking over to the new values, attitudes and habits of life that are commensurate with a scientific and technological age is known as modernization.
- 25. Important characteristics of modernization are …. • Increased specialisation in work. • Increased ‘ social mobility ‘ due to the occurrence of change in status – levels. • New work values develop; ‘time’ becomes a value in a modernised society. • Increased mobilisation of people, due to group interests within working class. • Mass education is achieved through mass communication.
- 26. Role of education organization and teachers in the eradication of rural poverty As adult education is an important component of ‘Rural reconstruction plan’ it is implemented in schools by utilising the services of school teachers. No villages without a middle or high school within three kilometres radius from every village, there is also a higher secondary school.
- 27. • School complex system • Content of school subject and the school timing were so adjusted to suit the local needs so that, almost all children attend the school regularly. • Education is considered as the key for the eradication of rural poverty.
- 28. • Navodaya schools recommended in the national policy of education, 1986 is an experiment in this direction. • Through the efficient use of mass media like radio and television, classroom instruction of expert teachers could be made to reach out rural school. Educational satellites could also be used in this regard.
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