This ppt shows the module 2 of the paper - MED 12.1 CONTEXT AND ISSUES OF SECONDARY EDUCATION comes in the 3rd semester of M.Ed course under University of Calicut.

1. MODULE 2. Quality Concerns and Management
System in Secondary and Senior Secondary
Education
QUALITY EDUCATION
Dr. Shilna V.

2. QUALITY EDUCATION
• One that focuses on the social, emotional, mental, physical, and cognitive
development of each student regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic
status, or geographic location
• It prepares the child for life and not just for testing
• In 2012, the United Nations for the first time included ‘Quality Education’ in their
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
• Inclusivity and equitability are the foundations to be upheld in quality education
and not a greater literacy rate
• Quality education not only prepares a student for a job but also develops the
overall personality of an individual
• It aims at their complete upbringing where morals and ethics are taught as part of
the curriculum to help them live a healthy lifestyle

3. Targets that the UN has set for 2030
• By 2030, ensure that there is free primary and secondary education for girls and
boys for effective learning outcomes
• By 2030, ensure that both girls and boys have access to quality early development
and pre-primary education
• Ensure equal access to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary
education
• Increase the number of people, both youth and adults who have relevant skills for
employment, jobs and entrepreneurship
• Eliminate all discrimination in education
• Ensure universal literacy and numeracy
• Ensure education for sustainable development and global citizenship
• Ensure the building and upgrading of inclusive and safe schools
• Expand higher education scholarships for developing countries
• Increase the supply of qualified teachers in developing countries

4. Indicators of quality
• Availability to qualified teachers
• The utilisation of quality learning resources and professional
development
• The creation of safe and supportive learning environments

5. THE DELOR'S COMMISSION REPORT (1996) Learning – ‘The
treasure within’
• A report presented to UNESCO, Paris by an International Commission
on education for the twenty first century under the chairmanship of
Jacques Delors of France
• Fourteen members from different countries including Dr. Karan Singh
from India
• learning comprises, “the heartbeat of society”
• ' learning to know, ' learning to do, ' learning to live together' and
learning to be form four pillars of education
• interchangeable understanding, peaceful interchange and coordination
can be taken as the social aims of education

6. Recommendations of the Delor’s Commission Report
• Education is stated to be "the principal means accessible to promote
a deeper and more harmonious form of human development and
therefore to reduce poverty, banning, ignorance, oppression and war
• Delors considers "education as a continuing process of improving
knowledge and skills, it is also may be basically an unusual means of
bringing about personal development and building relationships
among persons, groups and nations"
• The commission defines education, "a social experience through
which children learn about themselves, develop social skills and
obtain basic knowledge and skills"
• Delors repeats the concept of expanding international cooperation in
the global village

7. Recommendations of the Delor’s Commission Report contd…
• Education for aware and active citizenship must begin at school
• Democratic participation should be promoted through instructions
and practices modified to a media and information society
• It's the role of education to give children and adults with the cultural
background that will allowed them to understand the changes taking
place.
• Commission emphasis the need of improvement, general availability
and nourishing of Basic Education-A requirement which is valid for all
countries
• The stress should be placed for primary education and its traditional
basic programmes -reading, writing , arithmetic-but also on the ability
to express oneself in a language that provided itself to dialogue and
understanding