ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION
 

smt. Daya sirohi, principal, s.d. Girls inter college, saharanpur- 247001 (u.p.)

- adult education system should be broad based.

Shri virendra prakash pancholi, 3 days, irrigation campus machhala magara scheme, udaipur, rajasthan

- instead of adult education, parents should be encouraged to send children to schools. Illiterate people should be encouraged to learn new techniques of their profession. Teachers should regularly visit villages.

Shri om shrivastava, astha sansthan, 109 kharol colony, udaipur, rajasthan (27th october, 1990)

- the content and process of adult education should be reorganised to intereave it with development. Literacy should become an integral part of the total organised socioeconomic and political sector.

Shri. Khem singh gill, vice-chancellor, punjab agricultural university, ludhiana (29th october, 1990)

- the paper does not lay sufficient stress on adult literacy without which the proposed social transformation cannot be effected.

Shri shatrughna prasad singh, mlc, general secretary, bihar secondary shikshak sangh, jamal road, patna (9th october, 1990)

- navodaya vidyalaya system is harmful for the society. This system should be converted into common school system.

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- Public schools and private schools should be banned at once.

Shri. Anil biswas, editor, ganashkti, muzaffar ahmad bhawan, 31, alimuddin street, calcutta-700016 (27th october, 1990)

- the assumptions on which the suggestions on adult education are made are not tenable. The goal of universalisation of education may remain unrealised if the programme for adult literacy does not receive its due weightage.

Prof. Krishnaji, chairman, indian institution of maharishi vedic science and technology, maharishi nagar 201 304 (1st november 1990)

- a separate one time massive programme of literacy is needed as an integral part of education.

Mrs. Rajam. P.r.s. Pillay, director, balavikas institute, trivandrum- 695005

- students should be involved in literacy programmes by asking them to spend one month every year for literacy programmes.

Shri h.p. Biswas, programme officer, deptt. Of adult and continuing education., university of delhi, delhi (one day' discussion held at bangalore of 3rd november, 1990)

- the suggestion regarding adult education needs to be re-examined recognising the significance of literacy skills.

Human resources development centre for teachers, rashtreeya vidyalaya teachers college, jayanagar, bangalore-110011 (discussion held on 8th october, 1990).

- The problem is of adult illiteracy. Therefore, removal of illiteracy should be given due importance in the adult education programmes.

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Southern regional centre of the council for social development, hyderabad and indian university association for continuing education, new delhi. (One day discussion held at hyderabad on 22nd october, 1990)

- the adult education programme needs to be redesigned in a manner that literacy and awareness become jointly shared responsibilities of instructors, development agencies and the mass media.

Workshop organised by the university of bombay at bombay on 26th september, 1990

- a community centre comprising of anganwadi, primary school, secondary school and other organisations should be set up at the lowest possible level. These centres should be well- equipped for carrying out field work and other activities. They should be located at easily accessible places. All the concerned organisations should function through these centres. The centre should provide facilities for study, cultural activities, games, cultural programmes, and other socially useful activities as also a marketing unit. The hours of work should be flexible and adjusted according to the needs of the community.

Dr. S. Muthukumaran, vice-chancellor, bharathidasan, university, tiruchirapalli, tamil nadu.

- School children should be involved in a large measure in nonformal/adult education. In this context, the practice of involving senior students in teaching the juniors which had been in vogue in tamil nadu before the british school pattern came into existence, could be revived with great profit to the students, as a majority of the students in such system will be both teaching and learning at the same time.

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Dr. S. Muthukumaran, vice-chancellor, bharathidasan, university, tiruchirapalli, tamil nadu.

- In the programme of adult and non-formal education, a special. Thrust needs to be given to educate the women with due emphasis on child care and nutrition, family planning and home-based a vocations.

Seminar organised by institute of education and culture, hyderabad, the university of hyderabad and the osmania university, hyderabad at the central institute of english and foreign languages, hyderabad on 20th21st october, 1990

- adult education of all men and women in the age group of 15-35 should be achieved by the end of the century such that they attain irrelapsible literacy by that date. This programme should be area specific and gender specific.

- The programme of adult education should not be exclusively a government managed affair. All sections of people including voluntary organisations, social activist groups, teachers' and students' organisations, trade unions, educational institutions and the political. Parties should be involved in it. The educated unemployed youth may be employed in adult education centres after necessary training and they be paid remuneration on the basis of the number illiterates made literate.

One day discussion organised by the centre for adult education and extension, university of kerala in collaboration with the indian university of association for continuing education at thiruvananthapuram on 27th october, 1990

- adult education should be linked to felt needs of the people in the area. Adult literacy should be given first priority in adult

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education followed by development of skills relevant to the problems faced by the learners. All employing agencies should have an inbuilt system for providing educational facilities to all categories of their employees as a continuous process.

- Voluntary services should be encouraged for eradication of illiteracy. Every person should devote an hour a day for the removal of illiteracy.

Indore discussion group, indore.

- Adult literacy should not be equated with adult education. The two must be distinguished and adult education should be encouraged rather than adult literacy.

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