how the community should be education

1. Submitted by : Simmi Sarpal
Research Scholar
PanjabUniversity
Departmentof Education
Community Education

2.  “Education … is the
practice of freedom, the
means by which men and
women deal critically and
creatively with reality and
discover how to participate
in the transformation of
their world”
(Paolo Freire)
 Community…Self-
organized network of
people with common
agenda, cause, or interest,
who collaborate by sharing
ideas, information, and
other resources
 Cluster of common
interests that arise from
association.

3.  Community education, also known as community-
based education or community learning &
development, is an organization's programs to promote
learning and social development work with individuals and
groups in their communities using a range of formal and
informal methods.

4. Community education
advocates and supports
the creation of innovative
programs and
collaboration between all
members of communities
for the purposes of
advancing community
learning and
sustainability.

5.  CBE is an educational philosophy recognized as a
means to achieve educational relevance to community
needs.
 CBE is about the facilitation of learning in, with, for,
and from the community, rendering relevant,
meaningful and mutually agreed upon learning
outcomes for health professionals and services to the
populations in a community setting.

6.  Community based education consists of learning
activities that used the community extensively as a
learning environment by involving students ,teachers,
the community, different governmental &
non‐governmental sectors.
 It aims at developing future professionals with
problem identification and solving skills and positive
attitudes to serve the society

7.  CBE can be conducted wherever people live: rural,
suburban or urban area and wherever it can be
organized.
 Can be applied in all ages and for all kinds
professionals’ training.
 CBE is a development approach, helps to improve the
lives of the people.

8.  Innovative and problem solving education is the
government strategy.
 CBE is a paradigm shift to address quality of education
– student centered, problem solving, community
based and innovative.
 Quality of education is this time agenda.

9.  The strength of community education is also its weakness.
Community education’s strength is that it deals with many
different and varied components of education within the
community. It’s weakness is that this makes it very hard to
describe what we do.
 The aim of community education is to equip communities
with the skills they need to undertake the activities they
wish to undertake ; it is essentially about educating
communities or groups, not just individuals.

10.  Community education is based on three principles:
1. The determination of objectives and aims according
to the interests, needs, and problems of people.
2. Application of a wide range of community, human,
physical and financial resources to the development
of programmes and activities.
3. Advancement and practice of democracy in all
activities of the school and community.

11.  Awareness against exploitation by agriculturists,
industrialists etc.
 Liberation from the cluthes of ignorance, illeteracy,
poverty, ill-health, superstitions, beliefs and custom
etc.
 Awareness about rights and duties.
 Awareness about calamities, grave situations.
 Awareness about environmental sanitation,
immunisation, diseases etc
 Awareness about family planning, population
explosion.

12.  Teachers should not confine their role within the four
walls of educational institutions.
 They have to feel the pulse of community and try to
help them solve their problems.
 They are to be social engineers who can mould the
destiny of the nation, in and outside the classrooms.
 Teachers can play a major role in imparting knowledge
and skills to the emerging generations.

13.  ‘since war begins in the minds of men, it is in the minds of
men that the defences of peace must be built’..
~ written in unesco preamble
 This can effectively be done through education- formal,
non-formal and informal methods.
 Absence of war does not ensure peace. Peace has to begin
from the individual and pass on to the members of the
family, locality, state, nation and the world at large.
 If peace consciousness is kindled in the minds of young
children from beginning, atleast in future, ‘unity of
mankind’ and ‘communal harmony’ can be established.

14.  There is a high demand to change theoretical knowledge to
practice.
 Expose students to the real world under experienced
guidance.
 Gives students a sense of social responsibility and
accountability (Brain antidote).
 Makes students active learner than passive knowledge
receiver.
 It equips students with practical skill to solve problems.
 To bring quality in education.
 A means to achieve equity in education and service

15. – Community Based Training Program (CBTP)
– Team Training Program (TTP)
– Student Research Program (SRP)
.